I think not. Unless you want to try a password tool that just scrolls thru all possible combinations of numbers and letters and cap. letters. How much time do you have ? Do you know the previous owner ? If so you can try some common password traits, but any good admin would not set such an easy target. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matin Puthikarun" <matinp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 10:43 PM Subject: [isalist] w2k password http://www.ISAserver.org Hi I was given a notebook with w2k os installed but not the administrator password. Is there anyway I could recover the administrator password without having to reinstalling the whole operating system? Thanks, Matin ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=isalist ISA Server Newsletter: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/newsletter.asp ISA Server FAQ: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Exchange Server Resource Site: http://www.msexchange.org/ Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this ISAserver.org Discussion List as: strangconst@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')