Forgotten administrator password

From: Ron (rszabo@sanmarcos.net)
Date: 02/10/03 

From: "Ron" <rszabo@sanmarcos.net>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:45:22 -0800

If you are a member of the administrator group in your
regular user account or there is a tool you can buy from
wininternals.com a product on ERD Commander called
locksmith.
>-----Original Message-----
>If you cannot remember what password was assigned for the
>administrator to log on, is there anyway to reset it or
>assign a new one without having to re-install the
software?
>I'm new to Windows 2000 and cannot remember what password
>was assigned to administrator.
>Any help anyone can offer will be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks, Jeanie
>.
>

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