how to set pc to when first bought home

aayush

As i can not get to web sites so how can use the tools listed above

closed

It depends on the age of it, and which operating system it has, as already explained. The windows start screen should give you a clue, or you could just try both

to crack/reset the password, you would need access to another pc, and a blank cd.

Bollotom

If you have to ctrl-alt-del to password, this is used on a company intranet. Can you not get the password from the people who supplied it? Failing that, as Closed suggested. :cool:

Johnmcl7

aayush wrote: »

What if want to restore to factory as for gotten password will still need to f8 or ctrl & f10

Yes - you press the button before Windows loads to boot into the recovery mode instead, it doesn't matter what state the operating system is in. If it's not on its original install though the recovery partition may be gone or inaccessible.

John

Lum

aayush wrote: »

hi it has micro profesnsiall 2000
on it

Do you mean Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional?

i.e. this a machine that is over 10 years old.


Is there a sticker on the machine with a Service Tag number anywhere?

macman

As above, the 7 digit DEll Service Tag will enable you to look up the full hardware and OS spec via the Dell support site.
Unless the OS has been updated.
But why would you want to run a machine with W2000 online? I can't be adequately secured.

Lum

Actually I just realised, this is purely a lost password issue..

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/ss/pcloginnowsbs.htm

Have a read of that, it's instructions to how to download and burn a bootable CD that you can use to reset your Windows password to a blank one.

Much quicker and easier than doing a factory reset.


That said I agree with the above comment about running a Windows 2000 machine online, though it's possible the OP meant they had Office 2000 Professional.

mr_fishbulb

Lum wrote: »

That said I agree with the above comment about running a Windows 2000 machine online, though it's possible the OP meant they had Office 2000 Professional.

Which is also out of support

Lum

Well yes, but anything that attacks Office is more likely to get caught by a good AV, compared to stuff that attacks Windows.

I've got plenty of customers still running Office 2000 on Windows XP.. Though at least as of last year I have none left that are still on NT4 or Win2000.

mr_fishbulb

Lum wrote: »

I've got plenty of customers still running Office 2000 on Windows XP.. Though at least as of last year I have none left that are still on NT4 or Win2000.

You're beating me then!