Re: Administrator passwords

From: Jack Seredyniecki (jack_seredyniecki_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/01/03 

Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:27:56 -0400

If I got a computer with a pre-installed OS, the first thing I would do is
trash it, format the drive and do a fresh install of Windows on it. You
need to get your own copy of Windows 2000.

"PJ Staley" <peggyjs@cox.net> wrote in message
news:029901c37023$4f556a70$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> One of the benefits of working at my company (USAA)is that
> when we get new computers, the old ones are given to the
> employees with accompanying notes that we may be getting
> the computers, but we are not entitled to technical
> support. The computers we got this time were loaded with
> Windows 2000 Professional. For whatever reason,the
> computer I got decided after several times of shutdowns
> and restarts from installing programs I needed to set up
> on it, that it was going to arbitrarily ask for an
> administrator password. I didn't set up a password on it,
> so why would it be asking for one? I can't call my company
> about it because of the previously mentioned "note" and as
> the operating system was already on it, we were not given
> an accompanying operating system disk. I don't have dual
> operating systems or anything else equally technically
> complicated, and I'm not on a "domain". I merely need to
> log on to my computer and can't. Is it possible to disable
> the password or get rid of it and how?

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