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Forgot Administrator Password
Name: BrendaLynnRoss Date: May 30, 2007 at 21:53:27 Pacific OS: Win 2000/ win XP CPU/Ram: unsure Product: IBM Think pad
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My old computer guy set my Administrator password over a year ago, and I can not remember what it was. I am looking for help on how to override this option so I can add new hardware(aka a new Printer). I am able to log on using the user name End User... not sure that will help
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: May 31, 2007 at 15:56:55 Pacific
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Response Number 2
Name: ohexploitable Date: June 25, 2007 at 16:38:12 Pacific
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No reason to be short about it. She's probably a new poster.
There are various applications to recover a lost Admin password on NT/XP/2000 machines. A few such programs are BartPE and ERD Commander. A copy of ERD Commander 2005 should be easy to find on the Internet, just be sure that you...you know, get it legally. ;-) ERD Commander WOULD be your best bet, as it has a very simple User Interface, very user friendly - and the LockSmith program bundled into it has about a 99% chance of working. So yeah, it rocks, go get it. :D