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Password recovery or workaround for Windows 2000
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My mom has a laptop running 2K that she uses for checking email and basic surfing. My little brother recently figured out her user password and decided to make his own user profile. My mom isn't so great with computers and only noticed this when she couldn't log on anymore (since the log on name had been changed from "Administrator"). I told her how to delete the other profile, and she did. But she didn't change her own password, so my brother got on again, and instead of making another profile he just changed the administrator password. Only problem is that now he says the password he changed it to doesn't work, and my mom is completely locked out.
Are there any ways to get around this short of reinstalling Windows? That's the only thing I can come up with off the top of my head, but I'm not even sure where the install CD is, and my mom says the CD drive doesn't work properly.
Are there any ways to get around this short of reinstalling Windows? That's the only thing I can come up with off the top of my head, but I'm not even sure where the install CD is, and my mom says the CD drive doesn't work properly.
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I've used this with success before.
Safe Mode is accessed by pressing F8 at some point after the BIOS and before the Windows loading screen. If you see a Windows logo, you've gone too far and should restart. I tend to hit F8 a lot just to make sure I get it.
However I don't know if Safe Mode will help in this case, since you said the account she was using was "Administrator." This is generally the Windows default account that most home users have set to no password. It's how people get in without a password using Safe Mode, commonly in Windows XP, because its pretty blue login screen will only show the Administrator account when you boot to Safe Mode. In other versions of Windows where you type in your login name, you can use Administrator at any time.
So basically you'll have to boot to a CD that forcefully changes the password to something else, as was just linked. Either that or redo the machine from scratch. And in either case, your brother is a dick and should be banned from using that computer.
Yes. After the POST beep is probably the best time to press it, or wait until boot from CD is finished.
Intresting, I need learn up on my grandfather OSs. When I was a security guard they had a win2k computer that was used for writing reports and such, but the people there were old and paranoid because I knew about 'teh compooters' and thought I was going to hack the planet or something from it.
Yep, you'll need to use an "offline password" program like this to remove the password on the account, usually you burn a bootable CD with whatever one you're trying and then use that to break in.
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