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log on to windows password and user error

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when I fired up my win2k pc today it asked me for a password. Well I have no password in the first place; I checked my hard drive and found 11 viruses and trojans; I deleted them. Since I could not access my system, I did the scanning for virus using another machine. Is there any way to access my system again? please help.Oh yes and I also tried logging in using the guest account ;even that was turned off.

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Check this:
http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_admi [...] ssword.htm

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I forgot my Windows logon password and can't log in. How do I reset it?
http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#password

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"user72th" <user72th@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> when I fired up my win2k pc today it asked me for a password. Well I have
> no password in the first place; I checked my hard drive and found 11
> viruses and trojans; I deleted them. Since I could not access my system, I
> did the scanning for virus using another machine. Is there any way to
> access my system again? please help.Oh yes and I also tried logging in
> using the guest account ;even that was turned off.

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