password problem

From: Leo (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/27/04


Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 14:35:25 -0800

If you didn't set a password then the password is notheing
(just press enter) or change the username to
Administrator and hit enter (No password unless you set
one).
>-----Original Message-----
>i was working on a computer to give to a friend, had it
just about working
>perfectly, found correct drivers, spent a lot of time on
it, then..........a
>friend who was "helping me" (hehe) accidently DELETED the
user i had set up
>(win2000) and now i can't log on to the machine--when it
boots up, it goes
>to password dialogue box (i named the computer "me" and
it has that for the
>usewrname, but i don't think i ever set a password
for "me" during win2000
>installation?--or if i did, i can't remember it--DUH!)
and the user who's
>password i DO know is now deleted and i can't get in--i
can't re-install
>windows, won't start the cd automatically, anything i do,
it just goes back
>to the password dialogue box--tried taking out the
battery overnight to
>delete the file where password is (read somewhere that
might do it), no
>help--as u can tell, i really don't know what i'm doing,
but i usually
>manage to get things running somehow (hehe)--any advice
on how to get into
>this damn machine?, bypass the password dialogue box?, re-
install windows?,
>something i can do?--thanks so much for any suggestions
>-Robin
>
>
>--
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>http://www.robinmilim.com
> (Y)
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> (_)-(_)
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gift to God"
>
>
>.
>



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