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Looking at the utilities on Hiren's and UBCD..... which allows one to add a new user to the existing installation?

I'll give Hiren's Boot CD a shot. I'm hoping that I can just add a new admin id and login locally. If local logins disabled, am I sol? Is there no way to alter the group policies in say, safe mode (assuming that I can get to safe mode)? I know that there exist an "Administrator" and a "Guest" (disabled) id on the machine. The IT guy used that Admin id to allow java to install an upgrade recently on my machine...

Thank you very much for the reply. I was not aware that I can add admin users with UBCD4WIN and the like. Sounds like this is my best option. Yes, my login is Domain only and there are no admin accts with no pwd prompt. I will prep a UBCD4WIN and try that method. At worst, if they find out, i would only get a slap on the wrist. I plan to install a virtual environment, so i would not mess up the machine or introduce any virus to the network. Thanks again!

my job upgraded to win7 and now all admin rights have been revoked...meaning that i can not install a thing. Tried ophcrack and other software to get or reset admin password but they also imposed a new group policy and no lanhashes are stored. is there any way to either get the admin password, or add a new admin user that i could then use to install progs? Im not really concerned about them finding out - i just want to be able to add some basic programs. thanks!