Active Boot Disk

To use Active@ Password Changer:
 
Note : you can make Active Boot Bootable via Pen drive or CD

1. From the Active@ Boot Disk shell, click Start > Programs > Active@ Password Changer.

 

2. The Active@ Password Changer dialog box will appear.

 

3. Click Next, which will open the Options window offering you to choose how do you want the search to be conducted.

1. Search all volumes for Microsoft Security Account Manager Database – let Password Changer search all of your drives in order to find Microsoft's Security Data Base

2.Select volume with Windows operating system manually- if want you can also search for the drive containing Windows system by yourself

3. Find a folder with Windows registry files manually- if for some reason accessing SAM database is not possible you can find it manually by going to this address:

4. C:/Windows/System32/Config

SAM hive file should be located here

Manually copying SAM database is possible only when the operation is being conducted from another operating system

 

4. Select it and click Open
· 5. To scan the disk and detect multiple operating systems, do the following:

a. Click Search for Search all volumes for Microsoft Security Account Manager

b. Click Next. The progress bar indicates the status of scanning. A list of SAM hives appear.

c. Select a database from the list.

6. Click Next. The list of users appears.

 

7. Select a user from the list and click Next. The parameters for the selected user appear.

· 8. Select parameter check boxes to create the situation that you want.

· 9. Click Next. A confirmation dialog box appears.

· 10. Click Yes. An information message indicates that the changes have been made.

· 11. Click OK.

·12. For each user that you want to change, repeat steps 5 through 9.