Re: Administrator password?
From: Terry Pinnell (terrypinDELETE_at_THESEdial.pipex.com)
Date: 10/13/04
- Next message: Jim Macklin: "Re: Question about digital camera?????"
- Previous message: Ron Bogart: "Re: Activation Key"
- In reply to: Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\): "Re: Administrator password?"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ]
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:13:25 +0100
"Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)" <Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com> wrote:
>Terry Pinnell wrote:
>
>> [snip]
>>
>> This immediately raises some questions:
>>
>> 1). I don't recall entering a password for 'Administrator'. I do
>> remember phoning the suppliers of this OEM PC, MESH UK, shortly after
>> buying it a couple of years ago, and they insisted they had not used a
>> password when they set it up. But the above says it was last set on
>> 22nd Sep! How can that be?
>>
>> 2) If the last logon was 16th March 2002, over two years ago, how can
>> the password have been set only a couple of weeks ago?
>>
>> 3) How can I now find my password, and if necessary change it to
>> something I will remember? Note: I do have a PW for my own user name,
>> which I log onto each time I reboot (rarely).
>>
>> I'm truly floundering here, so any help would be much appreciated
>> please.
>Hi
>
>If you other user is a member of the Administrators group, you
>can use this user account to reset the password for the
>"Administrator" account.
>
>If not:
>
>You might try to reset the local Administrator
>password with one of the methods mentioned here:
>
>http://securityadmin.info/noframes/faqget.asp#password
>
>http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm
Thanks a lot, Torgeir. Appreciate the fast reply.
-- Terry, West Sussex, UK
- Next message: Jim Macklin: "Re: Question about digital camera?????"
- Previous message: Ron Bogart: "Re: Activation Key"
- In reply to: Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\): "Re: Administrator password?"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ]
Relevant Pages
|
|
