Users Guide

Active@ Password Recovery Software

Active@ Password Changer lets you reset local user passwords and change Windows login security restrictions on Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 / VISTA systems: 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.

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