What is Unlocker.exe? The genuine Unlocker.exe file is a software component of Unlocker by Empty Loop. Unlocker is a very basic program that starts with Windows and allows you full access to certain files that have been restricted or protected by Microsoft.
. SubInACL is a command-line tool that enables administrators to obtain security information about files, registry keys, and services, and transfer this information from user to user, from local or global group to group, and from domain to domain. For example, if a user has moved from one domain (DomainA) to another (DomainB), the administrator can replace DomainA User with DomainB User in the security information for the user's files. This gives the user access to the same files from the new domain. SubInACL enables administrators to do the following:.
Display security information associated with files, registry keys, or services. This information includes owner, group, permission access control list (ACL), discretionary ACL (DACL), and system ACL (SACL). Change the owner of an object. Replace the security information for one identifier (account, group, well-known security identifier (SID)) with that of another identifier.
Migrate security information about objects. This is useful if you have reorganized a network's domains and need to migrate the security information for files from one domain to another. This update addresses the following issues:. Fixed bug where subinacl.exe failed to process command line arguments. Fixed bug where subinacl.exe failed to function correctly with cluster file shares.
Click the Download button (above) to start the download. In the File Download dialog box, select Save this program to disk. Select a location on your computer to save the file, and then click Save. In Windows Explorer, go to the location where you saved the downloaded file, double-click the file to start the installation process, and then follow the instructions.
The downloaded file is a Microsoft Software Installer (.msi) file. By running the file, you install the tool and documentation on your computer. When you install a tool, you are prompted to choose an install directory.
If the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit is installed, install the tool in the Resource Kit directory to avoid an overly large system path and to ensure more reliable upgrades. When you install the Resource Kit, the recommended directory is C: Program Files Windows Resource Kits Tools.
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Tolomir: So besides for quite overtly and repeatedly casting aspersions about my motives (which has by now gone beyond being rude and insulting to downright childish - has the cost of sending a computer out of warranty back to Acer for repair vs local technician never crossed your mind?) you have no further advice or links as to how to go about the solution? Then thanks but no thanks. I have no need to prove to anyone that I'm a legitimate repair technician, least of all to someone who can't help even after such proof is proffered. Normally HD passwords can't be reset without knowing them. These passwords are very secure, and even if you send the PC with proof of ownership to Acer, they probably can't help you. The reason to have an HD password in place is to keep the data safe from others in case of theft, and often it is better to write that data off than risking it getting into other's hands.
Usually companies with such data also keep it on their servers, after all. So unless your Client remembers and can tell you the password, I doubt you'll be able to use that HD again. The cheapest option is to replace the HD with a new one, and restore the OS to factory defaults from the media the client created after he got the PC, and if he doesn't have those either, you can always order recovery media from Acer (that's cheaper than retail OS's), or install an alternative OS, like Linux Mint.
This site appears to give details of the proceedure: There is nothing 'rude' or 'insulting' or 'childish' about questioning the need to bypass both the BIOS and hdd passwords on someone else's laptop. If a customer brought me a laptop and told me that they had 'forgotten' both passwords, I would refuse to work on it. Here in the UK the law is quite clear on this matter. If I help someone to make a stolen laptop usable, I am liable to prosecution as an accessory to a criminal act. Ignorance is no defence.
If your client is not a family member, I would be very careful. Phototropic: Those details were already referenced above, by myself, but they leave out essential steps in the process, namely how to get the UnlockHD.exe unto a working disc. And there is something rude, insulting and childish in thinking that a long time member is really someone out to break the law instead of who he claims to be.
And if one does think so, they don't have to respond to the question. To 'respond' with 'Why do you need this information? Are you trying to break the law?' Is a waste of time. What do they expect? 'Oops, you got me'? Either assume the reasonable or pass on the question.
Don't waste others time with ones accusations and unsolicited advice. I am going to assume the asker has legitimate access to the system and is acting on behalf of the owner, in part because I regularly encounter people who forgot their passwords, changed them accidentally, or are disgruntled ex-employees who set it on their way out. Go here and you can get numerous images and help with bootable CD's, USB drives, and floppies: It will cost you $4; but, you'll be able to download as many as you want. (Personally, I use the NTFS CD regularly to disinfect systems or to run CHKDSK) That will get you the DOS prompt so you can run the unlock utility. Ssvarc, I have used 'unlockhd.exe' to unlock an acer netbook hard drive before. The unlockhd.exe program does not require a separate DOS boot disk.
It actually works in any 'Windows' cmd.exe environment. You can use another computer to run unlockhd.exe. It generates a code to give to the BIOS locked hard drive password prompt. The effect of Unlockhd.exe is to erase the BIOS hard drive password. From what I remember, you should boot from cold boot, enter the wrong password about two times and you will get a code# on the last try that you give to unlockhd.exe. Like I said, you can run unlockhd.exe on another PC to enter the code and generate the resulting code (from unlockhd.exe).
You enter # from unlockhd.exe on the locked PC BIOS prompt. Upon reboot, the BIOS hard drive password should be essentially 'cleared'. Hopes this help.