Re: Disabling auto-logon or forcing password entry at startup

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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:31:10 -0700

I would just reformat the machine and reinstall my OS and application. Why?
1. You do not know if the seller planted a trojan/backdoor on the system to
later spy and commit fraud against you. reformat/reinstall is one way to be
sure. You probably do not have a support agreement with anyone, so if
anything installed goes wrong, you're on your own. So, do it yourself
anyways, to be certain. Note this is different than if you buy from someone
like Dell since you do get support from them and hence you have an out.
2. If you bought a W2K system that is installed, you should have a license
key and CD for W2K to reinstall. Otherwise, you have either been ripped off
by the seller, or you are using an illegitimate copy of Windows.

Personally, even if I bought a machine from Dell, I still reformat the HDD
and reinstall exactly what I need. I am picky about what is running on my
machine, and you can never be too secure nowadays.

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//David
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"hp3k" <hp3k@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC2A8EF8-1AA7-4E63-BF3F-312645D1829C@microsoft.com...
Hi,
I'm a newbie to the W2K system.  I recently bought a used W2k system and am
not familiar with what I need to do.  When the OS starts it is in a
auto-logon mode for a user other than Administrator and when it completes
the
user has no access to any file or directory on the C: drive.  How can I stop
the auto-logon for this user and "force" the OS to prompt for another user
(Administrator) so that I can gain complete access to the system and its
files and directories and either delete or change the user's access rights?
Its one those systems that I bought via ebay and do not have any
backup/recovery disks available.
All assistance is greatly appreciated and TIA!

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