Re: Windows 2000 and LOGIN PASSWORD problem....HELP!!!

From: Matt (mhall@advantagepersonnel.com.au)
Date: 11/28/02 

From: "Matt" <mhall@advantagepersonnel.com.au>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 14:21:05 +1100

Windows 2000 can be very easy to lock yourself out. Did you play round with
the local security policies (i.e disallow log on locally)? Unfortunately it
is very hard to break. Leaving an administrator password as being blank is
bad. Maybe an unauthorised user went in and set the admin password without
your knowledge! If the machine is on a network you could try logging onto a
win98 machine using the same username. If you enabled file sharing you
should be able to see the shares (provided the admin password was not
changed). If not you could access the drives using
\\computername\x$ or to map a drive,
net use z: \\computername\x$
where x is the drive letter that you want to access, and z is the mapped
drive letter.
Otherwise there are no more options except to pull the HDD out and put it
into another as a slave so you could pull over the data you need to keep and
then re-install the OS onto the drive. You should always set passwords if
the p.c is in a non-secure place and always set up a second administrator
user account as a back door and log things like administrator access,
password/policy changes etc.

"kimberly" <kimberlycat@pacific.net.sg> wrote in message
news:3d894aa6.2726652@news.pacific.net.sg...
> One moment the system login'ed fine into Win 2000 NT, then today when
> I typed in ENTER in response to the usual password enquiry (a password
> has never been set, and the user is set as "administrator")
> ..BOOM...it replied that it can't log into Windows and asked that I
> checked my password...but I've never set a password, not even
> accidentally. And it was working fine all the time!! .WHAT HAPPENED?
> Help, I can't get into windows and the PC is like locked itself
> out!!!!
>
>

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