Active@ Password Changer v.3.0
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1. 9 key to display information for a specific user Press PgUp or PgDown to scroll the list of users Please note The primary built in Administrator is displayed in Cyan Other users who have Administrator privileges are displayed in Green or Dark Green if their account has been disabled Users who don t have Administrator privileges are displayed in White or Grey if their account has been disabled Page 11 of 13 Password Reset and changing account parameters After you select a specific user account you can see the account information Active Password Changer shows the account s current settings in one column and the recommended settings in another If you want to accept the recommended settings and clear the password just press Y to do that You can also choose to change the new settings to something other than the recommended default values To do this use the Up and Down arrows keys to select a setting to be changed and press the Space bar to enable or disable it To view and change permitted logon days and hours press the PgDn key Page 12 of 13 To select and choose days and hours use arrow keys and the Space bar Please note that hours are displayed in GMT Greenwich Mean Time You should take that into account for your local time zone NOTE Default Windows system accounts do not have the option for permitted logon hours Press Y if you want to2. Policy screen will be displayed shown below Page 2 of 13 5 To agree to the Licensing Policy terms select the I agree to the terms of the license radio button This will enable the Next button shown below Click the Next button to proceed to the next step 6 A Destination Folder screen will be displayed shown below By default the destination folder is set to lt Your Drive Letter gt Program Files Active Data Recovery Software Active Password Changer Page 3 of 13 7 Click the Browse button to select a different installation Destination Folder After confirming the Destination Folder click the Next button to proceed to the next step 8 A Select Components screen will be displayed shown below There will be four components displayed which are selected by default 9 Select the components which you would like to install and click the Next button to proceed to the next step Selecting Bootable Disk Creator will start the disk creator wizard at the end of the installation Selecting the Bootable ISO image for CD ROM will save an ISO image of Active Password Changer in the installation Destination Folder Creating a bootable CD is explained in a later section 10 A Start Installation screen will be displayed shown below You can click the Back button to change any installation information or click the Next button to start the installation process
3. save your changes or press Esc to leave the previous account information unchanged and return to previous window List of accounts Page 13 of 13
4. 11 The installation process is quick Upon successful completion of the installation an installation successful screen will be displayed shown below If you do not intend to create a Bootable Disk with a copy of Registered Active Password Changer un select the Run Bootable Disk Creator and click the Finish button Page 4 of 13 OPERATING PROCEDURES Active Password Changer can run from any bootable device that has DOS installed including a floppy drive a CD a flash card or a USB drive provided that your target computer s BIOS supports booting from these types of devices The bootable device should contain DOS system files and the PWD_CHNG EXE program file Please note that booting from CD is possible if you have a CD burner to create a CD and if your system can be booted from CD Preparing a boot device You can create a boot device in any one of three ways 1 The Bootable Disk Creator to create a bootable floppy drive or USB drive 2 The software ISO Image to create a bootable CD or DVD 3 In MS DOS mode Windows 9x Windows XP These three methods are described below BOOTABLE DISK CREATOR The Bootable Disk Creator BootableDiscCreator exe is a program which creates a bootable floppy disk or USB drive with a registered copy of Active Password Changer saved on it Note BootableDiscCreator exe is saved in the installation destination folder during the installation of Active Password Changer Using this
5. Active Password Changer v 3 0 Copyright 1998 2005 Active Data Recovery Software LSoft Technologies Inc USER S MANUAL PRODUCT OVERVIEW 1 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 1 INSTALLATION PROCEDURES 2 OPERATING PROCEDURES 5 Preparing a boot device 5 Program start 8 Logical Drive Selection 8 SAM Selection 10 User Selection 11 Password Reset and changing account parameters 12 PRODUCT OVERVIEW Active Password Changer lets you reset local user passwords and change Windows login security restrictions on Windows NT 2000 XP 2003 syst
6. bootable disk you can run install Active Password Changer on other computers Note All previous data stored on the floppy drive USB drive will be deleted while creating the bootable disk Just insert the created bootable floppy drive USB drive CDROM into your computer and reboot Note Your computer BIOS settings will need to be changed to re boot the computer using a bootable floppy USB drive CDROM The following steps are in continuation of the installation process for Active Password Changer Page 5 of 13 1 If you intend to create a bootable disk select the Run Bootable Disk Creator option and click the Finish button to finish the installation process and to start the Bootable Disk Creation process 2 A Bootable Disk Creator screen will be displayed shown below 3 Select the removable drive to format from the Removable drop down list You can either select a Floppy Disk Drive or USB drive from the drop down list 4 To add support for USB or CD ROM drives select the appropriate checkboxes under Additional Drivers shown below 5 Ensure that a floppy disk or USB drive is inserted in the selected Removable drive 6 Click the START button The disk creation process will start The screen shown below will be displayed with a progress bar To interrupt or to discontinue disk creation click the STOP button Page 6 of 13 7 The following screen is displayed upon successfu
7. ems this is useful when the Administrator s password is forgotten or lost or when the Administrator s user account has been disabled or locked out You can also use Active Password Changer to specify which days of the week and times of day a user can log on to the computer or to remove that kind of restrictions this is useful for example if you want to define what hours your child can logon to the computer The software has a simple user interface It supports multiple hard disk drives and can detect multiple SAM databases i e account and password databases if multiple Operating Systems are installed on the computer The software displays the list of local users and lets you select the user whose password you want to reset or whose account parameters you want to change The account parameters that you can change include Account is disabled Account is locked out User must change password at next logon Password never expires The demo version of the software finds the SAM database or databases and lets you view the list of users and the particular user attributes The commercial version actually resets passwords and changes attributes SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Active Password Changer runs on the following hardware AT compatible CPU with 386 or greater processor 640 Kb of RAM 1 44 Mb floppy disk drive or CD ROM drive EGA 640x480 or better screen resolution T
8. he software can display and change the password and account settings that are Created by Windows NT Windows 2000 Workstation Windows 2000 Server Windows XP 32 and 64 bit or Windows 2003 32 and 64 bit Stored on FAT16 FAT32 NTFS NTFS5 file systems Page 1 of 13 INSTALLATION PROCEDURES Active Password Changer is very easy to install The software can be installed on any computer During the installation process a bootable floppy disk CD or USB drive is created with a copy of Active Password Changer on it This disk is used to boot and run Active Password Changer on any computer including the inaccessible computer from which the password is to be retrieved in the DOS mode Note Any version of DOS can be used such as MS DOS PC DOS DR DOS FreeDOS or OpenDOS The following steps will guide you through the installation process Note During these installation steps clicking the Back button when available takes the user to the previous installation step s for any necessary changes 1 Download and Save the file Active Password Changer executable file filename PwdChanger Setup EXE to any suitable directory on your computer s hard drive 2 To start installing Active Password Changer double click on the downloaded PwdChanger Setup EXE file 3 A Welcome to Active Password Changer screen will be displayed shown below Click the Next button to proceed to the next step 4 A Licensing
9. l completion of disk creation The bootable disk contains the Active Password Changer installation files and USB CD ROM support files if selected 8 Click the CLOSE button to complete the disk creation process BOOTABLE CD CREATION FROM ISO IMAGE 1 The Active Password Changer installation process saves an ISO image of Active Password Changer in the destination installation folder The name of the ISO image file is Pwd changer boot cd iso 2 Using the ISO image of Active Password Changer and using CD Burning Software such as Nero or Roxio Easy CD Creator you can create a Bootable CD with a registered copy of Active Password Changer Note Do not use Widows Explorer to save the ISO image to the CD Windows XP Explorer does not create a bootable CD You must use software that can burn an ISO image to a CD IN MSDOS MODE WINDOWS 9x WINDOWS XP Prepare a bootable floppy disk with DOS Windows If you do not already have a bootable floppy you can prepare such a disk in any of the following ways o If you boot to MS DOS or to the Command Prompt mode of Windows 95 98 insert a blank floppy and type C gt FORMAT A S and follow the instructions on the screen o Or if you boot in Windows 95 98 ME go to the Control Panel then Add Remove Programs then switch to the tab labeled Startup Disk click the Startup Disk button and follow the instructions Page 7 of 13 o Or if you boot i
10. n Windows XP insert a blank floppy right click on the A drive in Explorer under My Computer choose Format check the Create an MS DOS startup disk option and click the Start button Copy the Active Password Changer PWD_CHNG EXE to the bootable floppy disk Program start Boot from the floppy USB drive or CD DVD ROM Active Password Changer program starts automatically o If not run Active Password Changer by typing this command along with Enter A gt PWD_CHNG EXE Press the 1 2 or 3 key for the action you want to perform Press Esc to exit the program Logical Drive Selection If you chose the first option on the Options screen you may select a particular volume to scan for a SAM database Page 8 of 13 Press the 0 9 key to select a particular volume to be scanned or the A key to scan all volumes Press Enter to perform the default action scan all volumes Page 9 of 13 SAM Selection If only one SAM database is detected press ENTER to get users information If several SAM databases are detected you will be asked to choose the one you want to view or edit Press the 0 9 key for a particular SAM database based on the appropriate database location and volume information Page 10 of 13 User Selection After the SAM database is scanned a list of defined local users will be displayed Press the 0
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