If a user forgot their ATI Access Password, running accesspv.exe (often via command line) would allow them to clear the password and regain full control of the Catalyst Control Center.

Interestingly, accesspv.exe appears in several early-2000s tech support forums (e.g., Tom’s Hardware, AnandTech, Rage3D). Threads from 2003–2005 often include queries like:

: For Access 2000 and XP files, it cannot recover passwords longer than 18 characters.