Can't bypass win 2k logon prompt / over top install?

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Before doing a reinstall, have your friend attempt to log in as Administrator
with no password. Once logged in, she can straighten everything out.


On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 12:44:06 -0400, Dan <QuadzilaNOSPAM@optonline.net> wrote:

>Hi,
>I sold an old Dell dimension 4100 w/win 2k to a freind. Prior to
>selling I'd removed my OE ID's and all other personal stuff, not sure
>but I may have also deleted my wqin 2k user profile. Now when my
>friend starts the PC she gets the win 2k prompt for user id and
>password even tho Ui'd never set the sys up to prompt fr password. My
>old user priofile ID was in the ID box. Had her try hitting enter to
>bypass, trying and old password I used to use, and clearing out the
>user ID field and entering no pasword but that didnt help either.
>someone suggested installing win 2k on top of itself. I still have 4
>diskettes I'd made labelled "win 2k setup up" discs 1-4 and the win 2k
>sys CD from dell. Is there an online step by step guide to doing this
>type of install as I've never done it b4 and my friend has little or
>no PC experience at allll. Thanks!
>
>Dan
>Quadzila@NOSPAMoptonline.net
>Remove NOSPAM from address when replying

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Dan wrote:

> Hi,
> I sold an old Dell dimension 4100 w/win 2k to a freind. Prior to
> selling I'd removed my OE ID's and all other personal stuff, not sure
> but I may have also deleted my wqin 2k user profile. Now when my
> friend starts the PC she gets the win 2k prompt for user id and
> password even tho Ui'd never set the sys up to prompt fr password. My
> old user priofile ID was in the ID box. Had her try hitting enter to
> bypass, trying and old password I used to use, and clearing out the
> user ID field and entering no pasword but that didnt help either.
> someone suggested installing win 2k on top of itself. I still have 4
> diskettes I'd made labelled "win 2k setup up" discs 1-4 and the win 2k
> sys CD from dell. Is there an online step by step guide to doing this
> type of install as I've never done it b4 and my friend has little or
> no PC experience at allll. Thanks!
>
> Dan
> Quadzila@NOSPAMoptonline.net
> Remove NOSPAM from address when replying
There's a free Linux utility that can overwrite Win2k passwords (I had
to use it for a roommate my freshmen year of college). You boot off a
floppy and it loads linux, reads the drive, prompts you for a new p/w
and writes over the old one. I beleive it was called pwdump2; it's been
a few years since I used it, but a quick google returned:
http://www.bindview.com/Services/razor/Utilities/Window...

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Also Petter Hagen-Nordahl's very fine and free "Offline Windows NT Password and
Registry Editor" at the following URL:

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

It boots up a Linux kernel and works with NT, 2000, XP... Ben Myers

On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 21:14:15 GMT, Nicholas Andrade <SDNick484@nospam.yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Dan wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I sold an old Dell dimension 4100 w/win 2k to a freind. Prior to
>> selling I'd removed my OE ID's and all other personal stuff, not sure
>> but I may have also deleted my wqin 2k user profile. Now when my
>> friend starts the PC she gets the win 2k prompt for user id and
>> password even tho Ui'd never set the sys up to prompt fr password. My
>> old user priofile ID was in the ID box. Had her try hitting enter to
>> bypass, trying and old password I used to use, and clearing out the
>> user ID field and entering no pasword but that didnt help either.
>> someone suggested installing win 2k on top of itself. I still have 4
>> diskettes I'd made labelled "win 2k setup up" discs 1-4 and the win 2k
>> sys CD from dell. Is there an online step by step guide to doing this
>> type of install as I've never done it b4 and my friend has little or
>> no PC experience at allll. Thanks!
>>
>> Dan
>> Quadzila@NOSPAMoptonline.net
>> Remove NOSPAM from address when replying
>There's a free Linux utility that can overwrite Win2k passwords (I had
>to use it for a roommate my freshmen year of college). You boot off a
>floppy and it loads linux, reads the drive, prompts you for a new p/w
>and writes over the old one. I beleive it was called pwdump2; it's been
>a few years since I used it, but a quick google returned:
>http://www.bindview.com/Services/razor/Utilities/Window...