You won't have access to EFS files....that's a problem, especially if the whole drive is EFS. But yea, this method does work rather well for editing system settings, creating a new admin account for yourself, or just retrieving info. Also, make sure you have SP2 installed, cuz it may have some sort of time check on the file...I'm not sure, as I haven't done it in a while. If you do have SP2, then email M$, because though it is common sense, it's obviously been overlooked, and the file should be modified somehow everytime you shutdown the box, so the time stamp is set....and somewhere it stores that...but it's only a matter of time until someone finds out how to crack the file with the timestamp..

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