I have been given an old IBM model 600E laptop to use but
no one knows the password needed at the Windows login-
screen.
What options do I have to make use of the machine?
I today heard about password-crackers; never knew such a
thing existed; how do they work?

geronimo wrote:
> I have been given an old IBM model 600E laptop to use but
> no one knows the password needed at the Windows login-
> screen.
> What options do I have to make use of the machine?
> I today heard about password-crackers; never knew such a
> thing existed; how do they work?

I'd just use the windows setup disks you should also have been given to set
the machine up again from scratch. Who knows what unhelpful things have been
done to the laptop before you got it?

If it's an old Windows95/98 OS you can press ESCAPE to
cancel log on and load into the default desktop. You
should also be able to input any user name to login.

If it's NT 3.51/4 then re-install as previously
recommended.


>-----Original Message-----
>I have been given an old IBM model 600E laptop to use but
>no one knows the password needed at the Windows login-
>screen.
>What options do I have to make use of the machine?
>I today heard about password-crackers; never knew such a
>thing existed; how do they work?
>.
>

if the OS is windows 2000. you can use a program called
Linboot, this will allow you to reset the admin password.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have been given an old IBM model 600E laptop to use but
>no one knows the password needed at the Windows login-
>screen.
>What options do I have to make use of the machine?
>I today heard about password-crackers; never knew such a
>thing existed; how do they work?
>.
>

>>I have been given an old IBM model 600E laptop to use
but
>if the OS is windows 2000.

If it's a windows 2000 OS then it isn't that old ;)

>-----Original Message-----
>if the OS is windows 2000. you can use a program called
>Linboot, this will allow you to reset the admin password.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I have been given an old IBM model 600E laptop to use
but
>>no one knows the password needed at the Windows login-
>>screen.
>>What options do I have to make use of the machine?
>>I today heard about password-crackers; never knew such a
>>thing existed; how do they work?
>>.
>>
>.
>

geronimo wrote:

> I have been given an old IBM model 600E laptop to use but
> no one knows the password needed at the Windows login-
> screen.
> What options do I have to make use of the machine?
> I today heard about password-crackers; never knew such a
> thing existed; how do they work?
Hi

You might try to reset the local Administrator password
with one of the methods mentioned here:

http://securityadmin.info/noframes/faqget.asp#password

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm


--
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/default.mspx

Ahem, the group isn't called "microsoft.public.win2000.howtobreakintoit."

"geronimo" wrote in message
news:2ca7101c468fc$b3f52010$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I have been given an old IBM model 600E laptop to use but
> no one knows the password needed at the Windows login-
> screen.
> What options do I have to make use of the machine?
> I today heard about password-crackers; never knew such a
> thing existed; how do they work?