My daughter just called and is trying to log into her laptop. It's telling her that her password has expired and told her to set a new one. She did that, and it won't accept either new or old password so she can't get into her computer. The username she entered is correct - tried password with both caps lock on and caps lock off, just in case. She tried hitting Cancel to get in without a password, and that didn't work either. The OS is Windows 2000 Professional. Since Windows won't open without the password, is there anything we can do? Thanks for your help.
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Jump to Postyou can also make a small partition on the harddrive.
install a fresh win2000 on that partition.
then go into the other partition and edit the registry.
and change the password that way
Jump to Postand a router with nat
Jump to PostWould need some derivation of a linux boot disk so you can extract the .sam file from the hard drive, but I'm doubting that your daughter would be comfortable with something such as that.
Jump to Postthat should work
Jump to Postplease create your OWN thread :)
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