Re: Will a Win2K reinstall recover from lost password??
From: Geoffw (gwinnetSPAM_at_SPAMhotmail.com)
Date: 09/08/04
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Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:52:56 +1000
did you try the follwoing variations
try username administrator ADMINISTRATOR Administrator
password
PASSWORD
leave blank
Geoff
"Andrew Beary" <andrewbeary@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:urhUd2SlEHA.3520@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I think I gave some bad advice to a friend who was moving
his old Win2K
> laptop from a domain environment to a workgroup (in order
to utilize a
> shared printer.) After walking him through the steps of
changing computer
> identification and joining the default Workgroup, the
machine was ready to
> reboot. Only after the reboot did either of us realize
that we didn't have
> a password for the local Administrator account. His
former logon name and
> password (which did have Admin rights) doesn't work
anymore, and multiple
> guesses for what the original Admin or user passwords may
have been didn't
> work. I tried running Recovery Console from the Win2K
install CD, but that
> only works if you know the local Admin password. Of
course, Guest is
> disabled too - the firm he used to work for when it was
set up did a good
> job of theft-proofing their laptops (I guess they let him
keep it when he
> lost his job.)
> So now I'm wondering if it's possible to run Win2K setup
again without doing
> a clean install. Will that allow a newly created
Administrator account to
> get back into his old application data (Access database,
Outlook contacts
> and calendar, Excel files)?? I know there's a whole lot
of older junk he
> doesn't need, but he has been using the Access and Outlook
apps in a
> standalone mode since he left the firm where he was a
domain member. After
> screwing him up by locking him out of his laptop instead
of hooking him up
> to a printer, I am hoping that there's a relatively
painless way to create a
> new account and get to the files. Maybe somebody knows of
a utility program
> out there that can create a Password Reset disk after the
fact (or maybe I'm
> just dreaming).....
> Any suggestions greatly appreciated.....
>
>
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