Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Reset Windows passwords with the Offline NT Password and Registry Editor

Employees leave, IT workers quit, IT consultants fail to properly document deployments. Regardless of the cause, you’re left with a locked account and perhaps a locked system.

The Offline NT Password and Registry Editor is a Linux-based utility that can reset passwords on Windows-NT based systems that use NTFS, including Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista. The tool creates a boot environment through which you can reset passwords via a series of text menus. The Offline NT Password and Registry Editor isn’t the most polished utility, but it is effective.

You can watch a video from techRepublic on this tool here.

The related download for a bootable iso is located here

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Take control of any Windows PC on the Internet with CrossLoop

Take control of any Windows PC on the Internet with CrossLoop, this seems like a great support tool and another alternative to Logmein.com's solution. See the video in this link from TechRepublic.

AMT subsystem Failure in Adobe CS3

I'm getting AMT subsystem Failure in Adobe CS3, turns out the issue was FlexNet was disabled. The solution could be very simple: Go to Services (Administrative Tools -> Services) and check service "FLEXnet Licensing Service" — it should not be disabled! Put it to manual mode at least. This fixed the issue on my XP box.