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by shair42533

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I SET PASSWORD ON WIN2K AND WHEN I BOOT THE MACHINE I GET PASSWORD SRCEEN BUT THE IRONY IS I FORGOT TO WRITE DOWN PASSWORD ............HELP

WHAT DO I DO AND HOW I AM A NEW WIN2K USER

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by superman79

All you have to do is open your computer and reset the Bios jumper. If you cant find one remove the battery and reinstallit and that will reset your bios and your system passwords to default. If you have queations write to me at ernestakasuperman@hotmail.com

by superman79

Forget about the battery I tried it on Win2k and it didnt work. but the jumper did erase my passwords. Its a little black plastic covering two little wires. It will say password somewhere close to it. Remove the turn your comp on and you shouldnt have any passwords. the put it back so you can put another password to it.

by joseph moore

I agree with Florinel.
Go to the like Florinel provided and download the Offline NT password editor.
It is a Linux boot floppy that can read FAT/FAT32/NTFS partitioned drives.
It can un-hash the Administrator password, thereby letting you set it to whatever you want.
The whole process (including booting to the floppy) takes 2 minutes.

by joseph moore

Forgot to mention that I have used this floppy several times. It works great. You will see all kinds of warning messages, but that is just because the software creator is very cautious! I have not had a problem with it.

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