Recently, visotor Mike a.k.a. Mayor requested help in Geek's Forum. Appartenlty, he took a laptop home from work and reconfigured it for his home network/ internet setup. The problem that he ran into is that when he changed the settings from using the domain in his workplace to using his home workgroup, his user account became invalid. After offering his a few tips, I recalled an old site that allows you to reset the password on Windows NT.
The information at Offline NT Password & Registry Editor is still relevant to Windows 2000 and XP (which are based on the NT archetecture), and will likley still apply to Longhorn and other future versions of Windows.
Mike says: "I downloaded the ISO and burned it, stuck the CD in the laptop, booted it up, and all I had to do was follow the instructions that popped up."
Around the same time, Joy at Confessions of a Geek was discussing the same issue as it relates to Windows 95/98/ME.
"You can remove a person's account logon* by renaming the username.pwl file to username.old and then on the subsequent reboot, don't enter any data and press the enter key. By doing that, you basically make a universal account with no password."
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