Re: lost password
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:10:58 -0700
typical computer geek wrote:
> you have to pull apart the machine and pull the battery. this erases
> the administrator password. then you can log on a administrator
No, this is not at all correct.Pulling the battery and leaving it out for
fifteen minutes or more (or, more easily, using the BIOS reset jumper on the
motherboard, if there is one) resets the BIOS and the password within it, if
there is one.
It has nothing to do with the Windows administator password, which is on the
hard drive. Pulling the battery does nothing to affect the hard drive in any
way.
Brian, read here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;321305
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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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> "Brian" <b@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%23DMErUzBGHA.1008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Hi -
>> A couple of years ago a colleague set up a computer at work with a
>> guest account so that patients would be able to access the internet,
>> type letters etc., whilst they were there. Now he wants to add some
>> more programmes but cannot log on to the admin account as he has
>> forgotten the name and password that he originally used. Is there
>> any solution to this, or if he has to reinstall the whole of Windows
>> (2000) would he need the original name/password to format the disk
>> so that he can reinstall? Any help or suggestions on this would be
>> appreciated.
>> Thanks,
>> Brian.
.
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