I have win 2000 and lost the administrator password. I could not add or uninstall any software. I changed it to boot from the cd-rom and reinstall/repaired the system. Worked great, it will ask you for a new Admin password.
Good Luck
The O/S is xp home sp1. I have not contacted Microsoft as of yet. After I check out the links posted to this thread I will.
Thank You and I will report my progress.
Thanks every one for your help. The problem happen to be a devise driver I upgraded it at the microsoft site and re installed the OS per linney's instructions. Every thing is working well.
I haven't installed any new programs and all of a sudden after booting up today I cannot get into internet explorer and system restore. They both display the same error message and shut down. "internet explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close." Then it asks if you want to...
Almost every time I boot up I get this message;
" One of the files containing the systems registry data had to be recovered by use of a log or alternate copy. The recovery was sucessful"
Suggestions anybody?
AMD 800
512 meg ram
45 gig
I just formatted my hardrive and did a clean install of xp home. Sometimes it will reboot itself three times before it comes up.
Also I get the message " one of the files containing the systems registry data had to be recovered by use of a log or alternate copy. The recovery was...
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