Re: Another dilemma

follow up after reading some of your other remarks....
do you get a username and password box or do you get a list of usernames and
when you click one a password box appears.
if you get the former then type in 'administrator' as the username and no
password (blank) and see if you can get in. if it is the later then not
only has this person managed to have disabled their user account but it
sounds like they deleted the adminsitrator account (i didn't think you could
do that). or the registry has simply become corrupted.... and your only
recourse is to extract the data from the disk as previously described and
reload the os.

"Christopher Muto" <muto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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sounds like your friend has managed to disable their account... so no
password will work.
your only hope is to start in safe mode and log on as administrator and
then enable the user account and set the password.
if that isn't possible then you can take the hard disk from this machine
and connect it to another computer as something other than the primary
drive and extract the data off of it (unless it has been encrypted or some
such thing). once you get your data then you can return the disk to the
original system and reload windows.

"dvus" <dven1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Colin Wilson wrote:
If anyone here can offer a suggestion that could possibly work I'd
be appreciative.

Couple of ideas to try...

Have you simply tried pressing "enter" to see if it bypasses it ?

Yes. I get "Your account has been disabled. Please see your system
administrator."

Offline NT password editor
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Hirens Boot CD
http://www.thanki.tk/

I'll check out these links. Thanks.

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dvus





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