How to login if you have lost the password.

[hackerman1]

I don´t have WS2012-R2 installed right now (I temporarily have W10-TP on that partition…),
so I cannot check if the instructions below (for W7) also works on WS2012-R2, but probably it does…
It works on WS2008-R2.

How to login if you have lost the password

Use your installation-disk to boot to WinRE (Windows Recovery Environment).
Click on the Command Prompt option.

Type the following commands and press enter after each one:
C:
CD Windowssystem32
ren cmd.exe cmd.old
ren magnify.exe cmd.exe
ren cmd.old magnify.exe

Reboot.

Click on Easy of Access Center (in the left corner) and select the Magnify option.
Press OK.

Type: net user administrator /active:yes and press enter.
Reboot.

Logon on to the “Administrator” account, go to Control Panel →User Accounts, and add a new password.

Type Magnify.exe in Start Menu search box and press enter and open it.

Type: net user administrator /active:no and press enter.
Reboot.

Boot to winRE again, and click on the Command Prompt option.

Type the following commands and press enter after each one:
C:
CD Windowssystem32
ren magnify.exe cmd.old
ren cmd.exe magnify.exe
ren cmd.old cmd.exe
exit

Reboot.

Tip
Create a bootable USB-memory with fx. WINDOWS-USB-DVD-DOWNLOAD-TOOL

Direct-download: http://wudt.codeplex.com/downloads/get/96313

Create 2 bat-files.
Copy them to the USB-memory.

P1

C:

CD Windowssystem32

ren cmd.exe cmd.old

ren magnify.exe cmd.exe

ren cmd.old magnify.exe

P2

C:

CD Windowssystem32

ren magnify.exe cmd.old

ren cmd.exe magnify.exe

ren cmd.old cmd.exe

exit

Next time you need to reset the password on a computer you can boot from the USB-memory,
and run those bat-files instead of typing the commands….

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