Win 2K logon

[Kruzin]

OK....so we bought a house to flip...the previous owner left a bunch of stuff behind. Included was a p4 2.2 with win 2kpro. A rig he had obviously started to upgrade before he skipped the state several years ago, but never quite finished. Unfortunatly, while he left a PILE of 5-10 year old software behind, he did not leave the disk for win2k (which I never owned).

So...I'm building up the rig for my kids to use. No probs loggin on, went through hours up MS updates, then start to personalize the system. Changed it's network ID (did not record the old network ID, derrrrrr).

For the first time in 30+ boots it goes to the logon screen (always just booted with no logon screen till now). Of course, now it will not log on with the new ID I assigned it. Tried to log on as administrator, no password, no go.

Can I get past this, or do I need to go buy a fresh copy of xp?

[Wombat]

You can reset the local Administrator password. There's an app to do it on the "Ultimate Boot CD", which you can find quickly by googling. That will at least get you in to the box again.

[Kruzin]

Downloading now...thanks

[Nowhere]

So...the problem is only that you don't know admin pass?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophcrack ?

edit: oh, or resetting (though finding his pass might be...funny? Potentially... )

[KeiFront]

Offline NT password & registry editor:

http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/

[Kruzin]

That was too easy
The ultimate boot cd has a lot of handy stuff on it.
Thanks again

[Kruzin]

Of course that was too easy.

I spent a couple evenings tweaking the rig, gettin it ready for the kids.
Then last night, I go to install the games I got em to go with the rig...find out they require XP-sp2.
So I suck it up, and go buy an upgrade version of XP.
Get home, find out the upgrade only works on 98, 98se and ME.
WTF MS? XP is not an upgrade to 2k???

Reformat, dust off the old 98se disk, installin a clean XP now....sigh...

[Marshmallowman]

because xp is NOT an upgade to win2k

[Nowhere]

I seem to remember you could upgrade from Windows 2000 Professional only to...yep, XP Professional (and I guess you didn't buy that, no difference from Home for your use)

[Kruzin]

Yea, I got XP home...it's just for the kids, and it's 100 bux cheaper...

[Kruzin]

Gawd, I just can't win.

Got XP installed, all is running fine, with my Parhelia out of retirement to replace the on-board SiS video. Or not.

The 2 games I bought the kids (UT3 and SimCity Societies) both require DX9 cards. Niether will even start up with the P.
Despite the system requirements not listing any Matrox card, I thought surely they would at least support a last-gen card with 128 meg at reduced details.

Sigh.....back to the store to shop for a video card....