Re: Administrator Password

From: Michael A. Covington (look_at_www.covingtoninnovations.com.for.address)
Date: 03/14/04


Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 19:18:01 -0500

This is an extremely frequently asked question. See other postings and do a
Google search for "lost administrator password."

If you have a valid Product Key for Windows (maybe on a sticker on the
bottom of the laptop), you can borrow someone's disk and reinstall from
that.

"Ray Wriglesworth" <raycom@nts-online.net> wrote in message
news:cbb401c4094d$d8549490$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I bought a laptop with windows 2000 pro and I can not do
> any thing with it because I do not know the admin
> password I do not have a cdrom to reload windows. How do
> I erase admin password or find out what password is?



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