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***Updates Below ***

Not my wonderful keyboard, but one of my DH’s laptop has locked us out and now we can’t get in the damn thing at all without reformatting the harddrive — and that’s the last thing we want to do.

It OS is Windows 2000 and has never required a password before. The password screen would come up, then go away.

But last night I must have screwed something up. I was trying to reset all Administrator and Users to the default because the damn system wouldn’t let me install anything because I wasn’t the Administrator! Administrate this you piece of crap — I’m ready to drop kick you to Florida at this time.

So — I need to somehow boot this sucker to bypass the administrator sign on — get me to the C prompt and I can dig from there, but I can’t even get there.

HELP! I’m on the Microsoft newsgroup trying to find a workaround — If anyone has any ideas short of me calling Dell and ordering him a brand new one for Christmas and chucking this one in the Chattahoochee!

Update

Still fighting this damn thing. Now I find out I can’t upgrade it to Windows XP Home Edition, it has to be XP Pro. —> heading to the Chattahoochee

Update Final

Okay, it’s not in the Chattahoochee — I am restoring it from the disc that came with it. It’s wiping the Hard Drive and I’ll spend the next few days reinstalling everything, but at least DH can take it with him in January and it will be working right.

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