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win 2000 pro log in password lost?.

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  • 12-09-2004 8:17pm
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    mad m
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    Got a laptop from a mate of mine whos girlfriend cant remember the password of her laptop,ive googled for freeware software but have come up with nothing other than buy this or that....Anyone know or point me in a direction of software to view her password.....or change it....

    thanks


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    joePC
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    Get yourself a bootable linux distro with "NT password" on it, this will allow you to change the password.

    Thanks JoePC


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    mad m
    Registered Users Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭mad m


    @joepc.

    thanks for that but just looking at the laptop now and it only has a floppy drive and ive no external cdrom...rats.


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    vibe666
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    http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html ;)

    used it myself on several occasions, and it works a treat. best bet is to 'blank' the password and then boot up and reset it from there to somehting you'll remember.

    also note that it doesn't make any changes until you finish telling it what to do and then navigate out of the program.


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    mad m
    Registered Users Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭mad m


    @vibe666


    went through all the set up and thanks alot for the help brilliant website but no joy....the file system is fat32 on the win2000 pro so would that have something to do with it?....both admin and quest i have set to blank password and when it comes up with her name i press ok with no password and still says its not right one...


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    zAbbo
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    mad m wrote:
    @vibe666


    went through all the set up and thanks alot for the help brilliant website but no joy....the file system is fat32 on the win2000 pro so would that have something to do with it?....both admin and quest i have set to blank password and when it comes up with her name i press ok with no password and still says its not right one...

    You need to log in as "Administrator" and not your girlfriends name, dummy


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    mad m
    Registered Users Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭mad m


    @ vibe666


    hey i got in....when i was loggin in her name was there,so i deleted it and put administrator in instead and press ok and the desktop came up no problem....am i missing something there.Well thanks alot for that website mate "Brilliant"......

    thanks


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    mad m
    Registered Users Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭mad m


    bazH wrote:
    You need to log in as "Administrator" and not your girlfriends name, dummy


    ok ok calm down hehe....thanks


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