forgotton Administrator password

From: Frank Swarbrick (infocat@sprynet.com)
Date: 09/06/02 

From: "Frank Swarbrick" <infocat@sprynet.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 23:58:50 -0700

I was at my dad's the other day and caused a 'bit' of a
boo-boo. He had an application he was trying to run that
kept on saying he needed Administrator or Power User
rights, but he didn't have them. He did, of course. In
any case, I went (under his login) in and changed his
rights from Administator to Power User. It them said to
reboot (or maybe just log out) for it to take affect. I
decided against it and changed him back to Administrator.
That didn't seem to 'take', though, because the next time
he logged off and back on he had Power User.

Problem being he does not know his Administrator password.
 What can I (he) do!? I myself don't have Windows 2000,
and he couldn't find the manual while I was there.His login
(and the actual Administrator login) were the only two
users with this level.

Frank

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