Re: Windows 2000 Server Start Up Password

From: Eto Demerzel (eto.demerzel@starfury.ukspammedlinux.net)
Date: 08/01/02 

From: "Eto Demerzel" <eto.demerzel@starfury.ukspammedlinux.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:39:06 +0100

"Andreas" <heu@asb.dk> wrote in message
news:05ee01c2395e$d6430260$b1e62ecf@tkmsftngxa04...
> No, I'm not talking about the power-up/setup passwords,
> that one can set from within the cmos/bios.
>
> Windows is starting up normally, then presenting me with
> a "Windows 2000 start up password" which I do provide,
> after which the boot-proces continues with starting up
> all the services and then asking me for the net/domain
> logon password.
>
> Under NT, this is called "NT Start".
>
> Thx for your response anyway...
>

This sounds like it could be the syskey.exe utility.

Run syskey from within windows and see what you can do.

If you don't know the password, try taking a look at
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html to turn syskey off.