Old IBM Thinkpad

[bfjr]

Recently, my child hit the System Recovery key on my old IBM Thinkpad (laptop) and now I am unable to gain access onto Windows 2000.  I am the third owner of this laptop and obviously the recovery went back to when it was password protected.  Is there anyway to by pass this so that I can gain access and enter my own password(s)?  Any help will be greatly appreciated. 

[smeezekitty]

how do you know you are not tring to hack the computer?
i would say reformat and reinstall windows
and somehow disable that button

[BC_Programmer]

this might help:

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000235.htm


is this a password set by the BIOS (before windows) or after windows loads?

if it's after windows loads, you could try using "administrator" with no password as the login information.

[Salmon Trout]

my child hit the System Recovery key

I wish I had 1 euro for every time I have heard or read this story, or a variant of it.