Re: Windows 2000 Administrator password

From: Miha Pihler (mihap-news_at_atlantis.si)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:11:58 +0200

Hi,

Check http://securityadmin.info/faq.asp under

I forgot my Windows logon password and can't log in. How do I reset it?

Mike

"E. Crumbley" <ecrumb@netzero.net> wrote in message
news:3e2401c4a667$44edbd50$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Will someone please tell me how to reset the administrator
> password to it's default setting while outside of windows.
> After changing from a domain to a test workgroup,
> passwords for the administrator and a user in the
> administrator's group got waxed, and I can't change back
> to the domain from the test workgroup. What do I do, what
> do I do.

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