Re: Password Changed
From: wombat (wombat@privacyx.com)
Date: 07/31/02
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From: "wombat" <wombat@privacyx.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:56:18 -0400
"Joel" <jlrush@pol.net> wrote in message
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> Follow up to my earlier post.
> Our adminstrator for our small company left, but before
> walking out the door he changed the Windos loging
> password on his computer. Is there anyway to get past
> the login password without knowing it or do we have to
> reinstall 2000 professional to gain acces to his computer?
Go to google.com and type:
recover administrator password windows 2000
HOWEVER
If your former admin was enough of a jerk that he changed the password
without telling you, he very well may have left some nasty surprises on the
system. Virus? Trojan? Backdoor? Who knows. Better safe than sorry,
format the system and reinstall.
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