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Windows Administrator “Lost Password” / “Password Reset”

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KB ID 0000159

Problem

You have forgotten your password, or the administrators password fo your Windows machine.

Note: You can also ‘Blank’ or reset the DSRM (Directory Services Restore Mode) password on a Domain Controller (Tested on 2012 R2, by blanking the password). Using this method.

Lost Password : Fix

Lost Password Software Download Links

Password Reset CD Image (3.5Mb) Note: This is a .iso file – you need to burn it as an image! Simply dropping this file on a CD will NOT work.

WARNINIG – If your drive has been encrypted with Windows Bitlocker this procedure will not work!

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Windows 8 – Lost / Forgotten Password?

IIS – ‘This Web site cannot be started. Another Web site may be using the same port’.

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KB ID 0000660 

Problem

After being unable to access my Exchange Management console, it turns out the default website had stopped. When I attempted to start it I was greeted with this error.

Solution

1. Nothing was using the usual web ports (80 and 443) which I found out by running the following two commands;

[box]netstat -aon | find “:80″</p> <p>netstat -aon | find “:443″[/box]

Note: If you do have a process using these ports, it will be sown with its PID. To find out what that PID is, right click your Task bar > Launch Task Manager > Processes Tab > View > Select Columns > Turn on the PID column > locate the PID and investigate.

2. My problem was there was a ‘Binding’ to https that had no information in it? Right click the website > Edit Bindings > here you can remove any spurious entries. (Warning: if you’re unsure, document any binding before you remove it – just in case).

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