adding an admin user

[bware1986]

I have an old computer that i wanna look at. I have access to the guest profile. However the admin is locked and cant get in. The computer has windows 2000 professional with NT. I have tried the cmd to add a new admin user however this does not work. Is there anything else that i might try. Any help would be appreciated.

[Rijnzael]

google `ntpasswd`

[SatansBrother]

there are a hundered password recovery tools especially for NT. Try the default then download a boot cd which will let you overide the current password. Did you just purchase the comp? How did you lock yourself out? You could also just reformat....

[nosidius]

command.com, then the usual /add stuff

[xnickpyrox]

guys im just like him i freaking got locked out of my administrator account on a windows xp...i tried all these diffrent things please give me a like to a good password recovery download.

[nosidius]

you dont need........... learn a bit about comamnd prompt, wonderful stuff

and if you want to get into the "nitty gritty", try command.com