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I have a user on a w/98 O/S who has put a password on her shared C drive, which she has now forgotten. How can i delete, amend or overide this password.

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by charley

I'm assuming she has passworded the share so that someone attempting to access her drive over the network will be challenged for the password. If this is correct, removing that password is trivial.

Open "My Computer" and right-click on the c-drive. Select properties and, when that opens, click on the "Sharing" tab. At the bottom, you'll see a text box labeled "Passwords" and there will be to fields inside there. At least one of them will have a set of stars. Simply delete all the stars and hit enter. You will be asked to confirm the new password, which will be nothing, so you just hit enter. voila. You have removed the password.

by charley

I'm assuming she has passworded the share so that someone attempting to access her drive over the network will be challenged for the password. If this is correct, removing that password is trivial.

Open "My Computer" and right-click on the c-drive. Select properties and, when that opens, click on the "Sharing" tab. At the bottom, you'll see a text box labeled "Passwords" and there will be to fields inside there. At least one of them will have a set of stars. Simply delete all the stars and hit enter. You will be asked to confirm the new password, which will be nothing, so you just hit enter. voila. You have removed the password.

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