I’m interning at a small software company and trying to set up a local server. I’ve found two old machines that are available for use, running Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.  However, no one knows the passwords for these machines. Is there any way to reset the user accounts without any OS installation discs?
I am trying get an unused server up and running, it booted fine but i was greeted with the login window and none of the known passwords seem to work. The server I am trying to get to work is not a Domain Controller and has not been used in a long time.  OS: Windows 2003 Server R2 Enterprise Edition  I tried Ophcrack XP (there is no WinServer version of Ophcrack) - it couldn't locate the partitions with hashes. I tried mounting the partitions myself (#mount /dev/hda*x* /mnt/ntfs), but it gave me an error saying /dev/hda*x* didn't exist.  Next I tried booting into a Ubuntu 10.04.3 LiveCD so that I could install and use chntpw - no go, Ubuntu Live wouldn't boot.  Based on what I've read up the following tools may be of help:   Windows Password recovery Petter Nordahl-Hagen's Offline NT Password &amp; Registry Editor Openwall's John the Ripper EBCD – Emergency Boot CD - Bootable CD (R)ecovery (I)s (P)ossible Linux rescue system   I am hoping that someone here has prior experience with Win2k3 Administrator password resets so that I don't end up having to try all of the above to find out which one works.
I've had the ability to review suggested edits for a while now, however I don't often do so because the list is usually full of questions about languages and technologies I'm not familiar with or not interested in, and can sometimes be hundreds of questions long.  I would like to help out more, but most of my rep has been gained by questions within a specific technology, so I only feel comfortable reviewing edits within that tag.   Can you allow us to filter suggested edits by tag?  Edit:   Actually, can you let us filter the entire Review section by tag, and not just Suggested Edits?  I would find it much more interesting to review questions in tags I'm familiar with and can  understand the question content of, and it would give me a bit of pride to help maintain "my" section of SO. I put some alias commands in my .bashrc file, so that they might be loaded everytime I open a new Terminal window. Yet this doesn't happen. I have to select run script: in the Terminal&gt;Preferences&gt;&quot;MyDefaultTheme&quot;&gt;Shell prefpane and add: source .bashrc &amp;&amp; clear for it to work... This seems odd since many tutorials only say you just have to add to the .bashrc file and all is good. Note that I don't run in bash when using the terminal, I like the other (default) one (don't know what it is) better, because it show me where I am all the time eg: &gt;&gt;d54c6b47b:~ romeo$  in stead of: &gt;&gt;bash$  In bash all is loaded as should be. So my question is, why didn't my .bashrc file load automatically and did I have to add the option to call it everytime? Also some tutorial told me to do something like: $alias la=’ls -la’ &gt;&gt; ~/.bashrc  which should write the alias to my .bashrc, this doesn't work either... Note that I'm a UNIX novice, so be gentle. Find the value of $\sum_{k=1}^{n}k\binom{n}{k}$? Why can "find" not be used in PowerShell? What does find.exe find objectionable about the parameters when it is used in a PowerShell console shell?  These commands work as expected in a cmd.exe shell:  PS C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0&gt; find /i "System.Diagnostics.Process" *.ps1xml FIND: Parameter format not correct PS C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0&gt; find /i "System.Diagnostics.Process" *.ps1xml FIND: Parameter format not correct PS C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0&gt; C:\Windows\System32\find.exe /i "System.Diagnostics.Process" *.ps1xml FIND: Parameter format not correct PS C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0&gt; C:\Windows\System32\find.exe /i "System.Diagnostics.Process" .\DotNetTypes.format.ps1xml FIND: Parameter format not correct What's the typical microclimate in the aircraft passenger cabin? When preparing for a commercial jet flight it'd be nice to know how warm my clothes should be so that I don't freeze after sitting for several hours in say +16 degrees Celsius (61 degrees Fahrenheit).  What's the typical temperature in the passenger cabin? Are there air drafts? How cold and how warm can it reasonably get? Yesterday, my laptop caught a virus which caused massive damage. Since them, I have been trying to recover important files before reformatting my computer, a task the virus has not made easy.   Restoration points predating the attack have been deleted.  Most of my folders show empty.  My Start menu is essentially empty, with the exception of Trillian and Mirror's Edge. The same goes for my Desktop, which only has programs which were installed after the attack.  Searching for files through my computer is pretty much useless, as it only rarely brings up anything. I suspect most of my files have not been deleted. While my folders show empty, uTorrent still does display them and I can open them from here. Unfortunately, when I select Open Containing Folder, the folder still shows as completely empty even if I'm currently watching a video from that very folder. Further adding evidence to the not-deleted-just-missing theory, the data recovery software I'm using (Restoration) cannot find only find an handful of the missing files.   If they were deleted, I could do a forensic recovery to get them back but since they're probably still somewhere on my computer, just out out of my reach, I can't find them.   Under those circumstances, is there a way I can recover those files? I am replacing a door with a pre-hung door including the jamb. The old door was 29 11/16" wide. The new pre-hung door is 28".  Is this too big of a gap?  Should I make it plumb on one side and make up the difference on the other side? Other threads suggest making up space on the handle side, but this is more space than than what other people were asking about. The trim is 2 1/2" so the gap would be covered. Automatic updates are not auto-downloading I have my Xbox One set up to automatically download and install updates, the rest of my settings are shown below:    Is there a reason my games will show an update symbol on their tile, but they still don't download the update until I start the game manually? I'm creating a model for a 3D game that will eventually be exported using a custom Python script. This model makes heavy use of UV textures.  However, the project now references a bunch of images that are not used by any objects in the project. Example:    I don't want the first two, or the red_bubble.png image. However, I have no idea how to remove them from the project. Selecting one of them reveals that there are "2 users of the data" although I am not using it anywhere.  How can I get rid of these excess images? I'm looking to view and archive all my old DMs in Twitter, since I would like to revive conversations that took place 1 year ago.  Acording to Twitter they don't delete old messages, they simply archive them in their database.  Is there a way to view and download all of these messages, just like you can view all your old public tweets with third party apps?  UPDATE: I found  but apparently it's not working for DMs now Why did Harry's father emerge before his mother in HP and the Goblet of Fire? In Harry Potter book 4 (Goblet of Fire) Harry's wand 'links' with Voldemort's during their duel, and Voldemort's wand begins 'spitting out' each spell it had cast, in reverse order.  This produces false 'ghosts' of people he had killed with .  In the US printing, James Potter appears, followed by Lily.  If the spell order was supposed to be reversed, why did Harry's father's "ghost" emerge before his mother's, since it's repeatedly stated (before and after) that he died first? I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 duos with stock Android Marshmallow, and I'm considering encrypting my SD card to prevent access to its contents in case I lose my phone. The main reason of not doing this is that I'm not sure if there's a way to mount an encrypted SD card on Windows (or other desktop OS's)   When I encrypt the SD card on my Samsung Galaxy S5, is it using a known implementation of encryption, or is it something that only works on Android (or perhaps Samsung) phones?   I do not want to use USB connection to my phone to access my SD card, it's terrible. Mounting the SD card is much easier and faster and less annoying.   EDIT: just to clarify, I am NOT talking about adoptable storage. I want a portable encrypted SD card that can both be read on PCs and Android phones (i.e. I want to be able to remove the SD card from my phone, plug it into my PC, provide a password to decrypt and read/write it like any other SD card) How can I reproduce the error "package... needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it" for testing? From time to time, Ubuntu users encounter errors from  or , of the form:  The package some-package needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.  I want to know what causes this error so that I can reproduce it and try to find safe ways of fixing it, even when the broken package is important and has many dependencies.  of the  might give a bit of a clue, but I don't know how packages get the status that causes the error.  How can I produce this error for testing on my (Ubuntu MATE 17.10) system?  This is prompted by  and my long-standing discomfort with closing questions about this error against , whose answer uses dpkg --force-all to remove the offending package.  suggests this solution has worked for many users, but I am not confident that using --force-all won't cause later problems, or that it's a good idea to use this method to remove important packages like APT. Possible to do a MySQL foreign key to one of two possible tables? Line of Bones to Travel and Conform to Curve (Train or snake following path) I've searched google extensively on this. Can't seem to find an answer.   I know about spline IK, which is wonderful for conforming a row of bones to a path. But combining the armature object with a follow path modifier causes the point of origin to move, but the bones themselves stick to the beginning of curve.   Ultimately my goal is to make a creature like a snake or centipede follow a curve path, thus animating it fairly realistically ... Custom date format with jQuery validation plugin How can I specify a custom date formate to be validated with the  for jQuery? Pdf of the square of a standard normal random variable How do I show that a two-qubit state is an entangled state? The Bell state $|\Phi^{+}\rangle = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(|00\rangle + |11\rangle )$ is an entangled state. But why is that the case? How do I mathematically prove that? I have seen the following methods of putting JavaScript code in an &lt;a&gt; tag:  function DoSomething() { ... return false; }    &lt;a href="javascript:;" onClick="return DoSomething();"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="javascript:DoSomething();"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="javascript:void(0);" onClick="return DoSomething();"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="#" onClick="return DoSomething();"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;   I understand the idea of trying to put a valid URL instead of just JavaScript code, just in case the user doesn't have JavaScript enabled. But for the purpose of this discussion, I need to assume JavaScript is enabled (they can't login without it).  I personally like option 2 as it allows you to see what's going to be run&ndash;especially useful when debuging where there are parameters being passed to the function. I have used it quite a bit and haven't found browser issues.  I have read that people recommend 4, because it gives the user a real link to follow, but really, # isn't "real". It will go absolutely no where.  Is there one that isn't support or is really bad, when you know the user has JavaScript enabled?  Related question: . How to calculate $5^{3^{1000}}\bmod 101$?