Tried to clear the Administrator password on our laptop
running Windows 2000 and obviously did something that now
won't let us log in at all. Is there some way to
override this so we can access the data on the computer
without having to reformat the drive and recover the data.

Thanks for any help you can provide. Dell has told us
that their only suggestion is to try a Windows repair but
they weren't sure that this would fix the problem.

Please help
Thanks

See if http://securityadmin.info/noframes/faqget.asp#password helps.

Jessica wrote:
> Tried to clear the Administrator password on our laptop
> running Windows 2000 and obviously did something that now
> won't let us log in at all. Is there some way to
> override this so we can access the data on the computer
> without having to reformat the drive and recover the data.
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide. Dell has told us
> that their only suggestion is to try a Windows repair but
> they weren't sure that this would fix the problem.
>
> Please help
> Thanks

Hi, I had the same problem. Go to Dell's support "forum"
and check there. I found a detailed way to change the
entry in the registry for this that someone had posted. I
didn't save it, but it is there.
>-----Original Message-----
>Tried to clear the Administrator password on our laptop
>running Windows 2000 and obviously did something that now
>won't let us log in at all. Is there some way to
>override this so we can access the data on the computer
>without having to reformat the drive and recover the data.
>
>Thanks for any help you can provide. Dell has told us
>that their only suggestion is to try a Windows repair but
>they weren't sure that this would fix the problem.
>
>Please help
>Thanks
>.
>

This should work

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

"Jessica" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:041401c34fe2$589db6c0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Tried to clear the Administrator password on our laptop
> running Windows 2000 and obviously did something that now
> won't let us log in at all. Is there some way to
> override this so we can access the data on the computer
> without having to reformat the drive and recover the data.
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide. Dell has told us
> that their only suggestion is to try a Windows repair but
> they weren't sure that this would fix the problem.
>
> Please help
> Thanks

[Jeffer Larray]

You can burn a Windows Password Reset CD to clear Administrator password. Lazesoft Recover My Password is a very easy to use. Here is guides: http://www.lazesoft.com/forgot-windo...-password.html