Now and then many of you find yourselves in the unfavorable position of having to retrieve an NT system's lost Administrator account password. I can't even count the number of "help me!" messages I've received in this regard.

As I tell those of you who email me for help in this situation, there a couple of different approaches you can take, depending on your exact position. In any event you have two basic choices when recovering an Administrator password: you must either crack it or forcef...