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Can't remember Windows 2000 password
Name: Karyn Date: January 28, 2002 at 07:27:43 Pacific
Comment:
I've changed my password, and didn't bother writing it down..Unlike NT 4.0, I can't logon as user-name "Administrator" with a blank password. This is a home p.c., not on a network...HELP!
Name: Stone Date: January 28, 2002 at 07:47:54 Pacific
Reply:
If you forgot your admin password, you most likely have to clean install Windows..
Sorry..
SRH
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Response Number 2
Name: trvlr Date: January 28, 2002 at 09:22:11 Pacific
Reply:
One route I've offered in the past - after finding it elsewhere... is to install a second bare-bones W2K to/as C:\temp\winnt; then boot to it. You get a fresh Admin login box; leave password blank, and boot through to Desktop. Locate (via Explorer) the SAM in the original W2K install and delete it. Then reset OS to boot to the original version. Reboot and again you will get a fresh Admin-login. Leave password blank? (As it's your home PC why not???). Boot through to Desktop, and you should have full access. Any 'Users/Accounts' you 'had' in the original SAM will have gone - you deleted the SAM... so you have to recreate them...
Haven't ever used the above route; but it came from a source that seemed 'to know its onions...'
Possibly better...
The Linux boot-disk will allow you to reset the NT/W2K Admin. password; more details etc. at:
http://is-it-true.org/nt/atips/atips262.shtml
Where there are also other/various suggestions/options included.
Overall the Linux approach is probably the simplest?
HTH.
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Response Number 3
Name: jackie Date: February 9, 2002 at 01:02:04 Pacific
Reply:
i suggest removing battery from motherboard ( looks like a big wath battery) the worst will happen is you'll have to change date and time
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