windows 2000 , cant log in

davesspitfire

Hi I have just got an old pc from work , and I hvae set it up at home ,
but when I try logging in ,it wont let me as it is saying it is the wrong password, I have also tried my colleagues passwords but no avail.
it was on a network in work and I was wondering is there any way I cn reset this or wipe the password all together, thanks guys/girls hope u can help me:(

BobTheBeat

Hey Dave, have you tried logging in as administrator with a blank password, under the this computer domain?

Unfortunately its not very easy to get into a machine, when you dont have credentials. You can use a tool documented here, to change the administrator password on the machine. Download it to a floppy and boot your computer using this.

Because 2K is supposed to be more secure than NT, more popular tools like l0phtcrack mightnt always work (l0phtcrack exploits the weaker NTLM algorithm NT used to hash passwords)as it uses kerberos to do its securing dirty work. But NTLM is sometimes used to hash passwords, in particular when storing credentials used to connect to another machine. Therefore L0phtcrack may actually work in your computers case,as it was probably used on a domain

Best of luck!

MunsterCycling

For info on this
http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm

Use this link.

Have used this myself on W2K machines:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd