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More info?)
Winternals ERD Commander is one solution. It doesn't recover a password, but
it allows you to reset the administrator password. With that you can gain
access to everything else. They have a workstation and a server version.
There may be a freeware/shareware product out there too.
Regards,
Dave Davis
"CL" <wildcat66@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> My Father-In-Law lost password to his win2k system
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> any ideas ?
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