Administrator gets locked out

From: Ed Gregory (eg_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/29/04

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    I have a Win2000 Pro machine that is allowing the administrator account to
    be locked out. I thought that with Win2000, XP, 2003 the administrator
    account couldn't be locked out. This comes from MS tech articles. The
    user, I guess typed the password incorrect too many times and now we are
    unable to login with the administrator account. There are only two accounts
    on the system. Administrator and Guest.

    How do I unlock or enable the administrator account? I don't mean I do I
    recover a password, but how do I disable the account locked out flag that
    must be set in the user?

    Thanks.

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