Guest Trainbuff Posted October 20, 2007 Posted October 20, 2007 I received an older computer with Windows 2000 on it. It works fine, but there is one thing I need to change. The person who gave it to me had an account on it that he called "me". When I turn the computer on and get to the log-in screen, it tries to automatically log in with this account. However, the password on it no longer works and so it keeps coming up with the "wrong username or password" error. However, I just log in as the administrator. How I can I stop it from doing this? I deleted the account but it still continues to do this. Any information will be appreciated,
Guest Dave Patrick Posted October 20, 2007 Posted October 20, 2007 Re: Logging in You can run regedit.exe and navigate to; HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon edit the Reg_Sz string values "DefaultUserName" and "DefaultPassword" to reflect the correct username and password. (note: the password for an autologon account can not be blank) Make sure you know the password for the local administrator account before hand. -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Trainbuff" wrote: >I received an older computer with Windows 2000 on it. It works fine, but > there is one thing I need to change. The person who gave it to me had an > account on it that he called "me". When I turn the computer on and get to > the > log-in screen, it tries to automatically log in with this account. > However, > the password on it no longer works and so it keeps coming up with the > "wrong > username or password" error. However, I just log in as the administrator. > How > I can I stop it from doing this? I deleted the account but it still > continues > to do this. Any information will be appreciated,
Guest Frank Booth Snr Posted October 21, 2007 Posted October 21, 2007 Re: Logging in Trainbuff wrote: > I received an older computer with Windows 2000 on it. It works fine, but > there is one thing I need to change. The person who gave it to me had an > account on it that he called "me". When I turn the computer on and get to the > log-in screen, it tries to automatically log in with this account. However, > the password on it no longer works and so it keeps coming up with the "wrong > username or password" error. However, I just log in as the administrator. How > I can I stop it from doing this? I deleted the account but it still continues > to do this. Any information will be appreciated, Login as Administrator. Go to Control Panel/Users & Passwords. Set up an alternative user name for yourself and make sure it is also part of Administrators group. Make sure you remember the new password. Check box to force you to login under that username, then reboot PC and login under that username. You should now use that username to do all your work, not the Administrator account. That should stop the previous username from appearing. If all goes well, go to Documents and Settings and remove the old rogue folder and files. Note. Some of the files contained within may not allow you to delete them from Windows. If not just forget about them. If you really want to delete them you will have to do so from recovery console, but it will be a long tedious procedure to do that. (Ive done it myself).
Guest Trainbuff Posted October 23, 2007 Posted October 23, 2007 Re: Logging in Thanks for telling me this. I was able to delete the "Defaultusername." However, I was unable to find "Defaultpassword". Is it renamed something else, or is it in another folder? "Dave Patrick" wrote: > You can run regedit.exe and navigate to; > HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon > edit the Reg_Sz string values > "DefaultUserName" > and > "DefaultPassword" > to reflect the correct username and password. (note: the password for an > autologon account can not be blank) Make sure you know the password for the > local administrator account before hand. > > -- > > Regards, > > Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. > Microsoft Certified Professional > Microsoft MVP [Windows] > http://www.microsoft.com/protect > > "Trainbuff" wrote: > >I received an older computer with Windows 2000 on it. It works fine, but > > there is one thing I need to change. The person who gave it to me had an > > account on it that he called "me". When I turn the computer on and get to > > the > > log-in screen, it tries to automatically log in with this account. > > However, > > the password on it no longer works and so it keeps coming up with the > > "wrong > > username or password" error. However, I just log in as the administrator. > > How > > I can I stop it from doing this? I deleted the account but it still > > continues > > to do this. Any information will be appreciated, >
Guest Dave Patrick Posted October 24, 2007 Posted October 24, 2007 Re: Logging in Why are you deleting? -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Trainbuff" wrote: > Thanks for telling me this. I was able to delete the "Defaultusername." > However, I was unable to find "Defaultpassword". Is it renamed something > else, or is it in another folder?
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