MonitorWare Knowledge Base

I work in my church office and we enabled the passwords on the computer and we don't know what the administrative password is. So now we are unable to add any programs or updates. Can someone please help. If you can please respond to chiquita@marykay.com

Well, if you don't know the password, you have rather no chance to get it.
The are some freeware tools available to reset passwords on Windows NT / 2000. But you will need a good computer skill to use them.

Hello,

You can retrieve your password. Read the following link. It will help you out.

http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#password

Best Regards
Wajih-ur-Rehman
Adiscon

One way to regain access to a Windows 2000 computer is to do this:

For FAT32 file systems -
Use a windows 98 boot disk and boot to a DOS prompt.
Go to C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG
Delete the file "sam"

When you reboot your system, your administrator password will be blank.

For NTFS file systems -
You need to use either NTFSPRO to boot to a command prompt or something similar. Unfortunately NTFSPRO is not a cheap piece of software. If you have time and a CD burner, you can download knoppix (700MB) and burn it onto a bootable CD. Knoppix is a unix based OS that will mount an NTFS volume. Best of all - it's free.

Good luck