Resetting lost Admin password

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I am trying to help friends who inherited a Win2K PC with the
restaurant they are about to re-open. Boot-up cannot get beyond the
request for the Admin password. Someone must have tried a few times
too many. They don't know what the p/w is anyway.

So is there a simple way to reset the password or clear it completely,
say from the C prompt in DOS mode? I have looked on the Web, but only
found incredibly convoluted solutions that involve many MANy steps.

Anyone know a short and fast, quick and dirty, way to get into that
PC?

Thanks in advance if you do.
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PSB said:
So is there a simple way to reset the password or clear it completely,
say from the C prompt in DOS mode? I have looked on the Web, but only
found incredibly convoluted solutions that involve many MANy steps.
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You should expect to find any password "cracking" (that's what your
asking) at least a bit of effort. It would hardly be worth having a
password scheme otherwise would it?

There *is* a method involving a program that's written to a bootable
disc ... I can't recall it right now but this question comes up
regularly and I'm sure someone here will point you at it. Or you could
dig back through the message base.
 
PSB said:
I am trying to help friends who inherited a Win2K PC with the
restaurant they are about to re-open. Boot-up cannot get beyond the
request for the Admin password. Someone must have tried a few times
too many. They don't know what the p/w is anyway.

So is there a simple way to reset the password or clear it completely,
say from the C prompt in DOS mode? I have looked on the Web, but only
found incredibly convoluted solutions that involve many MANy steps.

Anyone know a short and fast, quick and dirty, way to get into that
PC?

Thanks in advance if you do.
Visit Virtual Cicely at
http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/northernexposurelodge/
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Google is your friend. When you type
Reset Windows Password
into a Google search box then you get numerous very simple recipes on the
very first page, the most popular probably being the Nordahl boot
diskette/CD.

Note also that using an "inherited" PC is risky. It's like picking up a
sandwich from the gutter. You don't know where it's been and what it has on
its disk. Your friend might get very unpopular if his machine is infected
with some nasty virus and if he then spreads it around to his EMail
contacts. Some viruses routinely check EMail address books, then report all
addresses to the perpetrator who then sells them to spammers.
 
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