Johnny Helpdesk

Now let's test this sucker out. Upon booting back into Windows Vista, you can see in Figure 10 that as soon as I click the standard_admin user we are immediately welcomed into Vista and logged into the account--no password required! So the password reset utility worked! In Figure 11, we can see that our data file of interest, the lorem ipsum file, is intact and readable--so we have not lost access to our user data due to the password reset.

Figure 10	Figure 11

If we repeat the same process of clearing the password for the efs_admin account and reboot back into Windows Vista, we find we can login successfully, just like the standard_admin account. However, as shown in Figure 12, we have lost access to our EFS encrypted files!

Figure 12