Re: lost user password

From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (jamescagney90210@excite.com)
Date: 11/24/02 

From: "Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <jamescagney90210@excite.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 10:40:07 -0500

"dora mayes" <mustang2273@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1198b01c29279$b444a190$89f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA01...
> user name mayes1 unable to find password...tec that
> worked on harddriver unable to supply with
> password....user unable to login without password..user
> request information on how to retrieve lost password....ty

I'm not fully sure what's going on here from your description, but if your
password to log into windows 2000 is not working, try these suggestions
[starting with trying to log in as Administrator with no password, and then
try one of the boot disks listed here]

http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#password

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