admin pass on 2000nt

iv got a problem my aunt gave me her old laptop...but it has an admin pass...this means i cant do cr@p to the machine...is there a way to get past the admin password...and if so i want to take 2000 and take it back to 98 upgraded...i know bad idea but the laptop sucks and im thinking that i drop to older OS it might speed things up a lil...thanks for any help...

metalhead...

 

Here ya go:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

 

will that work on 2000 pro also?

 

Ask Aunty what the password was? Seems like the easiest solution. Bazza
What are the specs of the laptop? baz
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From that page:

 

the laptop was for her work...and the admin for there network set it up...then she got a new 1 and so this one still has all the different log on crap...so yeah i cant get rid of it with out being an admin...and the laptop sucks ...il prolly end up selling it on ebay once i get the network connections off of it

its a intel mmx processor
384 ram
no Cd rom
floppy drive
2 usb ports

 

Have her take it to work and ask the network admin. to remove the logins and passwords he placed onto the laptop.

 

alanc thanks for the help it worked
i appriciate it so much

 

You're quite welcome

 

Nice program!
Worked great for me!

I have old PC I use to test programs and stuff, I was playing around with logins, and home network settings, the next thing I discovered, I could not login, PC wanted password, which's sucked cause I had, or thought I had set to boot without login/password.
I was getting ready to just reload OS, but I thought I'd surf around MG first and accidently found this thread.

Thank's Alanc

 

Dont know if is related to Link/boot disk, but somehow I lost bunch of critical updates (20 of em) (W2K pro)
All else seem's as was, and even boots.