What have I done and can it be undone?

[Guest]

Got a new/used laptop with Win2000Pro installed. At some
point, while 'customizing' it, I was prompted to 'add
user'. I stupidly did. When I boot up now, I can ONLY
get in with my name and pw and have no access to a lot of
stuff because I'm not the 'administrator'. Bought this
computer with OS installed because I'm no good at techie
stuff... Have I totalled messed up? Is there a way out?
Thanks!

 

[ThePsyko]

Got a new/used laptop with Win2000Pro installed. At some
point, while 'customizing' it, I was prompted to 'add
user'. I stupidly did. When I boot up now, I can ONLY
get in with my name and pw and have no access to a lot of
stuff because I'm not the 'administrator'. Bought this
computer with OS installed because I'm no good at techie
stuff... Have I totalled messed up? Is there a way out?
Thanks!

try here if it's automatically logging you on as that user..
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315231

Otherwise, just delete the %winnt%\system32\config\SAM. file and you can
then logon as administrator with no password

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ThePsyko
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[BS]

Reset the local admin password. Then log in as administrator and make
yourself a member of the administrators group.

Here is a link to a utility to reset the local admin password:

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/


BS