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An effective ApproAch to restoring system Access in WindoWs whitepaper Copyright (c) 2007 ElcomSoft Co.Ltd.

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Introduction everyone loses passwords What are the consequences of losing a system password? potential costs why not simply reset the password?

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How to restore system access? available solutions Using a winpe bootable disk Free solutions based on Linux/UNiX

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elcomsoft system Recovery – a simple way to restore system access
Key features Special features of elcomsoft System recovery

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About elcomsoft

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An effective ApproAch to restoring system Access in WindoWs whitepaper

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IntRoduCtIon
In order to protect important data, we use a large variety of methods and technologies, especially when the data in question is confidential and essential for day-to-day operations of a business and for making important management decisions. “If you have the information, you own the world” has become the basic tenet of our times, where control over data is of the utmost significance. The loss of access to important data can have a very negative impact on the company’s business. It is under these conditions that any system administrator in the corporate setting is occasionally faced with the problem of restoring access to a client computer, resulting from the loss of the operating system password. Unfortunately, this kind of problem is frequently resolved by the administrator using the brute force method, without using any special software for resetting and restoring passwords. The subject of this white paper is how to properly and more effectively resolve such problems.

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eveRyone loses pAssWoRds
Setting a system password is one of the most common, and as we tend to believe, the safest method for protecting data from unauthorized users. As is often the case, this too has a downside. Our goal is to set a “difficult” password, to make it