administrator lost password (urgent)
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Hi all.. I'm having a big problem.. And Hope someone can help me. The OS on my labtop is Window 2000. I turn on the computer and the user name is " Po Po", which is in the group of administrators. Whenever I haven't use the computer for long time, it turn off and asking me to enter the password like " this computer is locked by Administrator. please enter the password to unlock the computer" something like it.. But I dont' know the password.. so everytime I got that message requesting the password, I restart the computer. Last night after working on my Laptop, I went to Control Panel and open the Users and Passwords. Inside of Users for this computer window, I found 3 users; Administrator, guest, and Po Po. I tried to reset the password for "Po Po" but I couldn't since I dont' know the old password. There is no password for either Administrator or guest.. Then I deleted Po Po. So I don't have to login as this user but Administrator. I was thinking of able to click on Cancel button when the computer restart if I login as Administrator because there is no password for Administrator. And I restart the computer.. The login window pops up.. I typed in "Administrator" as User and I click OK button . The cancel button is still gray (disable). But it didn't let me into the OS.. I'm keep getting the message saying "the user or password is incorrect.. " I have important documents saved in my c:\. I dont' want to format my harddrive and reintall Window 2000. I dont' have the backup for those documents. Is there anyway to crash the password to login to Win 2000 without reinstalling it??? Thank You
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Hi all.. I'm having a big problem.. And Hope someone can help me. The OS on my labtop is Window 2000. I turn on the computer and the user name is " Po Po", which is in the group of administrators. Whenever I haven't use the computer for long time, it turn off and asking me to enter the password like " this computer is locked by Administrator. please enter the password to unlock the computer" something like it.. But I dont' know the password.. so everytime I got that message requesting the password, I restart the computer. Last night after working on my Laptop, I went to Control Panel and open the Users and Passwords. Inside of Users for this computer window, I found 3 users; Administrator, guest, and Po Po. I tried to reset the password for "Po Po" but I couldn't since I dont' know the old password. There is no password for either Administrator or guest.. Then I deleted Po Po. So I don't have to login as this user but Administrator. I was thinking of able to click on Cancel button when the computer restart if I login as Administrator because there is no password for Administrator. And I restart the computer.. The login window pops up.. I typed in "Administrator" as User and I click OK button . The cancel button is still gray (disable). But it didn't let me into the OS.. I'm keep getting the message saying "the user or password is incorrect.. " I have important documents saved in my c:\. I dont' want to format my harddrive and reintall Window 2000. I dont' have the backup for those documents. Is there anyway to crash the password to login to Win 2000 without reinstalling it??? Thank You
Just did a quick google and came up with:- http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/r1050428859[^] From post in XP forum. Use the second portion of this if you do not have access to the internet on another machine or cannot get the disks the first part talks about. There is a boot disk you can download at: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html that will let you reset the password of any account on NT4, Windows2000 or XP. Just follow all the default settings which are for the admin account. Used it many times with great success. I also made a bootable CD image you can download from http://www.onecomputerguy.com/software/ntpassword.iso Bob Cerelli http://www.onecomputerguy.com
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