expired password

[Derek]

My neighbor has windows 2000 on a personal computer. He
let the password expire and now cannot login. I tried
guest, adminstrator, admin, etc. The cancel button is
grayed out. How can the guy get back into windows????
Any help would be appreciated. He doesn't have a windows
2000 cd (I think it was a work computer at one time).

Thanks for your help,
Derek

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

If it is expired, he should be prompted to change it.

 

[sgopus]

Must be a real rash of forgetfulness lately.
Q321305 How to Log On to Windows XP If You Forget Your
Password
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-
US;Q321305


http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#password

Reboot to Safe Mode, select Administrator, leave password
blank.
Then go to User Accounts in Control Panel and
delete/change the
password.

You do not need to reinstall if you forgot the admin or
any other password.

There is a boot disk you can download at:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

that will let you reset the password of any account on
NT4, Windows2000 or XP.

Just follow all the default settings which are for the
admin account.


For an Win2k AD domain controller, you need to do more
than that:

http://www.jms1.net/nt-unlock.html