Just joined your forum. I just bought a used IBM T23 Thinkpad with Win2k SP1 installed. It's registered to a user in a Work Group. I'm a single user, not on a network and sadly don't know anything about them. I tried to install the Belarc Advisor before posting anything but got the following message: "You do not have access to make the required system configuration modifications. Please rerun this installation from an admisinstrators account. (Belarc SMBios Access) The remote proceedure call failed." How do I establish an administrator's account and why do I need one if I'm the only user and not on a network?

tia

Hi there Neal16 , welcome to PCHF.

Well , the easiest thing to do is ask the person you have bought the laptop from for the password.

I'd love to. Problem is I got is at a Computer show and the vendor isn't local. It was one of those "off lease" deals. I knew I was taking a chance but fortunately it didn't much.

I don't know much about user accounts and passwords but someone else can probebly help you with it.

Im sure someone wil help you in no time

http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/se...drecovery.html

Download LCP and see if it can recover the password to the admin account on your computer.

Thanks for the response to an almost incomprehensible post. I usually make more sense. I'm downloading LCP as I write this and will let you know how it works out.