Lost Administrator's password

From: Marc (marchewitt@hotmail.com)
Date: 12/16/02

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From: "Marc" <marchewitt@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 05:34:46 -0800

click run
in the box provided enter CMD and press return
when the black command window opens
type "net user administrator password" without the quotes

this will set the administrator password to "password"

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