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How to unlock 2000 Pro

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by jostrowsky

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I have a simple peer to peer network at my home that I run with 2000 Pro. Recently I ran one of those treak utilities on one of the clients. When I was done running the program, I did a restart and now somehow the username which was left at default is now gone. It will not except default as the username. If you have the trick to getting around the username/password, I would appreciate your assistance.
Thank you.

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by cdobbin

HHmm, you need to supply more info! What utility did you run? When you say client are you refering to " Client for Microsoft Networks"? or just refering to a workstation? You say that user name "default" is gone, so I take it you are still seeing the logon box, if so try logging in with administrator and check the local user accounts. Hope this helps

by jostrowsky

I was referring to the workstation. The utility that I had used was System Mechanic, a utility that I would highly recommend to everyone. My only problem is that I used some of the start up utilities in System Mechanic not really knowing what they would do and I got burnt.
It turns out that your suggestion on using administrator as the username worked along with my password. I'm not sure if that worked because I had never changed the username fron Default or because I had never set a administor's account.

Thank a lot,

Jeff O.

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