Resetting Administrator Password in Windows 2008

You can follow the following steps to reset the Administrator password of your Windows server 2008 /R2 :

• Restart your Windows server 2008  with the installation CD

• Choose your Language and click next

• Click on Repair your computer option

• Select your partition and installation version and click Next

• Click on Command Prompt

Your C:drive may changed to D: or E: depending on the number of partitions you have on the server

• Go to system 32 directory & run the following commands :
  copy Utilman.exe  Utilman.exe.BK
  copy cmd.exe Utilman.exe

• Close CMD window ,and press restart then Don’t boot from CD and start windows normally.
• At the user logon screen ,press on Utilman Icon ,It will open CMD

• Type the following command to reset the Administrator password to be AdminP@ssw0rdnet user “Administrator” “AdminP@ssw0rd”

Then your system Admin Password is reset ,close the CMD window ,then login with the new password

• Don’t forget to recover the Utilman.exe file again
  Delete Utilman.exe & rename Utilman.exe.BK to Utilman.exe

You may face a problem while deleting the Utilman.exe file according to access denied permission ,So you have to grant full access to the Administrators ,then delete the file.

Categories: Windows

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