bypass password screen?

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Peggy

I've been given an old computer to work on that has windows 2000 on it.
Unfortunately, I don't know the password to log on to it with and neither
does anyone else.
It says that the old password has expired and a new one must be entered.
I don't know the old one.
This computer has been sitting around in an office for over a year.
It there anyway to get around this?
It's an old E-PC Direct computer that the company is not even in existence
anymore.
Any help here would be greatly appreciated!
dot
 
There are password work-arounds out there. I don't have the links to them
but I'm sure someone will provide them. From my experience, they are all a
bit tedious.

On the other hand, if the PC has been dormant for over a year, maybe you
don't really need any files on the PC and can start with a clean install.
Booting from the install disk and doing a new install (eliminating all
current data) will not require the password.

-Frank
 
Thanks for your reply Frankster and oh how I wish that were true, but that
is why I have been asked to look at the computer in the first place. There
is indeed files on there that they need to look at. :-((
Thanks though!
dot
There are password work-arounds out there. I don't have the links to them
but I'm sure someone will provide them. From my experience, they are all a
bit tedious.

On the other hand, if the PC has been dormant for over a year, maybe you
don't really need any files on the PC and can start with a clean install.
Booting from the install disk and doing a new install (eliminating all
current data) will not require the password.

-Frank
 
Peggy said:
I've been given an old computer to work on that has windows 2000 on it.
Unfortunately, I don't know the password to log on to it with and neither
does anyone else.
It says that the old password has expired and a new one must be entered.
I don't know the old one.
This computer has been sitting around in an office for over a year.
It there anyway to get around this?
It's an old E-PC Direct computer that the company is not even in existence
anymore.
Any help here would be greatly appreciated!
dot

Boot the machine with a diskette from this link, then reset
the administrator's password to a blank:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
 
oh thank you so much!
dot


Peggy said:
I've been given an old computer to work on that has windows 2000 on it.
Unfortunately, I don't know the password to log on to it with and neither
does anyone else.
It says that the old password has expired and a new one must be entered.
I don't know the old one.
This computer has been sitting around in an office for over a year.
It there anyway to get around this?
It's an old E-PC Direct computer that the company is not even in existence
anymore.
Any help here would be greatly appreciated!
dot

Boot the machine with a diskette from this link, then reset
the administrator's password to a blank:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
 
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