Re: Lost Administrator Password

From: Tony Northrup (tony@northrup.org)
Date: 08/19/02 

From: "Tony Northrup" <tony@northrup.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:14:40 -0400

Are you being prompted for a password by Windows or the BIOS? If it's the
BIOS, you'll need to crack the case to get pass the password prompt. If
it's Windows, your best bet is to re-install the operating system.

Tony

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