Unknown Admin Password

[Chuck]

We have a local stand alone Window 2000 Professional
machine that belonged to a lady that left the company. We
don't know her password. Without it we can do nothing but
navigate around her machine reading things. How can we
reset her password, so that we can use her machine to the
fullest?

 

[Bobby McMillan [MSFT]]

Hello,

258289 Windows 2000 Logon Passwords
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=258289

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[sgopus]

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