If you encounter a legacy system—perhaps a factory CNC machine running Windows XP or an old hospital workstation that cannot be updated—remember NT Password Edit v0.7. It may be old, it may be blunt, but it was the key that never failed to turn.
, NTPWEdit provides a straightforward graphical user interface (GUI) to view all local users and change their passwords with a few clicks. Critical Limitations No Live Editing
This is the most dangerous pitfall. When you blank a user's password, Windows loses access to the user's master key that decrypts EFS-encrypted files. After resetting the password, the user can log in, but any files encrypted with EFS (often in Documents and Settings\...\My Documents ) will become permanently inaccessible. There is no recovery. Version 0.7 does warn the user about this.
