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About a month ago i had problems accessing my admin accounts. It all started when i was tinkering with the CMD commands involving both my admin accounts in them. The command i entered for both was the command to change the password of the accounts, that is:

net user Admin *

after shutting down my computer and booting it the next day i realized that i couldn't access either of my admin accounts. I tried a software, which i think is ophcrack USB version, but unfortunately my computer didn't boot from the USB. Then i was exploring my hard drive and when i looked at the admin folders the computer said their empty. Could someone please help me

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Can you boot from CD? There are quite a bit of free Linux bootable CDs you can use to reset the admission password. While its not supported by MS, I've used these tools many times.

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Using Linux like JorgeM said is the best way to find your password fast. Here is a link on how to do it Link

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