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Hey Guys-

I would just like to start out and say thank you priar to giving me responces and stuff, I am not too good at PCs so if you guys know the answer, that would be a great help.

Okay, over the last couple of years, about once a year, I would take out my dad's old laptop, or company computer.

It is a Windows 2000 and my problem: it's the opposite of what people think: I know the password, I just need to find out the username.

Its an old IBM Thinkpad, when you start it up, it gives you two options on the IBM Thinkpad Startup:

F1- IBM Bios Setup Utilility (Tried everything couldn't find it)
F12- Choose Temperary Boot Device , and on that Menu it has:
+Hard Drive
+Removable Devices
3. ATAPI CD-ROM Drivce
4. Network Boot
5. MBA UNDI
<Entersetup>

And under F1, It has a bunch of random stuff to configure date, time, password* (of course, no username), etc. That kind of stuff.

I always get brought to the same old screen to logon though, I have no clue what the username is, but I know the password...

Any Ideas?

Thanks
 
Simples. Just re-install your O/S and enjoy.

Either that, or you could just ask your dad what his username was? :P
 
haha thanks, I actually just called my dad and he had no clue: its a 7 year old laptop :(

Btw, what's an OS? I dont have any discs that were in the case, I just have a mouse, the Laptop, and a recharger... some setup :P

I tried doing safe mode w/ command prompt, but it still comes up with the logon screen :P
 
O/S is Operating System

If you haven't got any O/S discs lying around you could download and install Linux on it, it's free and pretty useful as your primary operating environment :)

EDIT: You'll want Linux Ubuntu, as it looks good, works good and is very fast even on older hardware such as your old lappy.
Linux Ubuntu CD Download
 
thanks man, but no luck. By chance, do you know a backdoor way to get into the command prompt rather than doing safe mod w/ command prompt? I don't have any CDs, and I can't log in... man, I wish my dad remembered his username :(
 
The only thing I could think of would be to spend a little. Go online, even on ebay for a good deal, and buy XP or vista if you'd like. Put the disc in. Got to boot menu, and boot from the disc. Everything will be fresh. Good as new, and you'll have XP instead of 2000. Might be... $70
 
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