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Browse All TopicsI was given a laptop that once belonged to a .com-bomb biz and old networking info was or is still on it...Well, I was trying to clean theis stuff out, and now I have no idea how, but I've locked myself out of the machine. The username and pw I was given no longer work & I'm trapped at the logon screen. Please help. I need a no-cost and user-friendly solution...Thank you.
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by: itsmevicPosted on 2004-08-17 at 22:35:11ID: 11827700
Hello lynzeke, here are a few things you can try:
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dahl/ntpas swd/
got_admini strator_pa ssword.htm
dahl/ntpas swd/
products/r epairandre covery/ erd commander2 002.asp
dahl/ntpas swd/
dahl/ntpas swd/ dahl/ntpas swd/bd0401 16.zip dahl/ntpas swd/bootdi sk.html
Forgot the Administrator's Password
http://www.petri.co.il/for
http://home.eunet.no/~pnor
if you read through this it will tell you how to make a bootdisk either from a floppy or a cd-rw that will allow you to remove the lockout status of the administrator.
Forgot the Administrator's Password
http://www.petri.co.il/for
http://home.eunet.no/~pnor
this can reset passwords but it should also be able to REMOVE the DISABLED status
ERD Commander 2003
http://www.winternals.com/
http://home.eunet.no/~pnor
go here and read
http://home.eunet.no/~pnor
and then get the bootdisk: instructions and image
http://home.eunet.no/~pnor
unzip it and put a blank formatted floppy in your drive and double click on install.bat, it will create the folppy to boot to
boot up to it, and follow the instructions on
http://home.eunet.no/~pnor
Hope these suggestions help you....
itsmevic