Scott Hanselman

I lost the Administrator password to an old Windows 2000 Server that needed to be patched desperately.  It had been running happily in my closet for over 2 years.

So, how to recover the Admin PW for this beAst?  There’s always:

• Password Recovery Service: http://www.lostpassword.com/windows-xp-2000-nt.htm
• ERD Commander: http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/locksmith.asp

But those cost more money than I am willing to put into this machine (as the machine is hardly worth $199, so, how about:

• http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm
• http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
• http://www.jms1.net/nt-unlock.html 
• http://www.cgsecurity.org/

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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• Put the VB Component in COM+ (Preferred if the COM Object is part of a larger interaction, and you want fine control over your SOAP)
• Figure out a different way to expose the COM Object as a Web Service, perhaps with Classic ASP and SOAP Toolkit 3.0 (Quick if you just want to get your component, but has larger design ramifications for big systems)

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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<rant>

Tarantino is in some kind of a race to end his already limping career.  What, does he think "Kill Bill" is "The Matrix" or "Lord of the Rings?"  I seriously doubt people are going to pay twice to see "Nearly Killed Bill" then "Finally Killed Bill"...we hate To be continued...on a Brady Bunch episode, how are we going to put up with it for a movie?  This is the kind of thing that made Back to the Future II and III suck so egregiously. 

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Once again, with the ruthless competence we've come to expect from Harry "DevHawk" Pierson, comes a very useful VS.NET macro.  It toggles your Font Sizes back and forth from (in the example) Courier New 10pt to the gloriously readable Lucida Console 18pt.  Get it, use it, make it so.  Thanks Harry!

It has been said before, but I shall rephrase:  If your presentation uses a projector, make sure the images you project are readable.  The time for "can you see this?" is NOT during your presentation.  If you do nothing else before a presentation go into Notepad, VS.NET and the Command Prompt and change your fonts. (You may be a great engineer, but you have it admit it's embarassing to hunt around in Tools|Options, like you've never been there before, and have the audience direct you to the right setting.)

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Steve Maine emailed to let me know that my blog has a successful GoogleWhack!  Apparently having Google return exactly one result with a given string of just two words is quite unusual.  When you search Google for "XSD.exe xs:import" you get me!

Of course, now that I've blogged about my Whack, it will soon be gone...but I'll know inside...

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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