Windows 200 Password

[Ryan]

I have Windows 2000 and have been using it forever. I
always logged in with my power user account, but now I
know a lot about computers and want to log in as an
administrator. Nobody knows the password for it though?
What can I do to get it? It's really important...

Thanks,
Ryan

 

[Jisha]

did you try a "blank" password? ...or the same one you use for power-user
account?
allot of people set up their system this way...

Otherwise, there are some utilities available to reset the admin password.
Sorry, can't find the URL

Maybe someone could repost that ?

 

[Jisha]

Oh... found a saved message with URLs:

Need to regain acess to the system ..forgot the password
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Copied from one of the many valued
contributors to the ms newsgroups
Thanks to them for this.....

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
or
http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#password

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Asked and answered daily. Check existing posts that have
the word "password" in the Subject line.

 

[*Vanguard*]

"Ryan" said in news:[email protected]:

I have Windows 2000 and have been using it forever. I
always logged in with my power user account, but now I
know a lot about computers and want to log in as an
administrator. Nobody knows the password for it though?
What can I do to get it? It's really important...

Thanks,
Ryan

Don't be using the Administrator account for always logging. Instead, log
in under the Administrator account and create a new user account that is in
the Administrators group. Then use that user account to always log in.
Keep the Administrator account as your backup.