Now, this may not help you, but it teaches a good lesson.
Recently, at my school, we were given new accounts that were supposed to have more restrictions. One new restriction was that we could't access our "My Documents" folder. There was a simple work-around by opening it from Start > My Computer > My Documents that almost everyone found out. But there's one thing I found out that most others didn't.
In My Documents there's a .txt titled "sysprep". Nothing important, most people would think. But I decided to check it out because I, after all, didn't put it in there. So after a bit of examining I found that it was the configuration to some program on the computers.
There was one interesting thing about the configuration, however. There was a section asking for the administrator password followed by some, seemingly, random text. "That must be the admin password," I thought. So I copied it down on my phone (not on paper, never leave a "paper trail"
) and logged off my account.
I then typed in "Administrator" and the password found in sysprep.txt. And what do you know? Bam, I was in. So what's the moral of the story? Don't waste your time trying to crack some files or install new programs. Just take a couple of minutes and explore your workstation. You never know what you might find.
Edited by MoD, 28 October 2005 - 03:23 AM.
I am a high school student who is using a laptop that the school has provided me to use for the year. It is a ( Dell Inspiron l 4100 ) laptop. The school has placed so many restictions on the laptop that it is driving me crazy. Can't download this, can't install that. ect. 
The only way to get around this and have full controll of the laptop is to figure out the administrators password. Someone gave me the password two weeks ago but the password has recently been changed via wireless access. Now im no computer wiz and i was just wondering what i could do to find out what the new password is. Im desprate help me out.
