Win 98 Administrators password

I have obtained a part time voluntary role within a local school in the ICT
department. Nothing technical, defragging, virus scans and general printing
problems, maybe helping out with very basic Word and a paint programme.

The PCs are networked and I tried to scan a document on one of the PC's with
Syphos and it said the data file was 4 months out of date. I guess the main
programme to download the data files would be accessed using the
administrators privilege.

However, although I have a list of all the passwords for each year class,
the Admin password was not listed.

I have contact previous the admistrator who left the role in June but he
said he could not remember ???

I also contacted the schools ICT support and they said all was lost, try to
guess, eg schools name, area, postcode, but as suspected it simply wasted an
hour of my time.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

kind regards


James

Windows 98 computers don't have an "administrator" account - all users have
full rights unless you have used local security settings to change that.

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"Leonard" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have obtained a part time voluntary role within a local school in the ICT
>department. Nothing technical, defragging, virus scans and general printing
>problems, maybe helping out with very basic Word and a paint programme.
>
> The PCs are networked and I tried to scan a document on one of the PC's
> with Syphos and it said the data file was 4 months out of date. I guess
> the main programme to download the data files would be accessed using the
> administrators privilege.
>
> However, although I have a list of all the passwords for each year class,
> the Admin password was not listed.
>
> I have contact previous the admistrator who left the role in June but he
> said he could not remember ???
>
> I also contacted the schools ICT support and they said all was lost, try
> to guess, eg schools name, area, postcode, but as suspected it simply
> wasted an hour of my time.
>
> Any guidance would be appreciated.
>
> kind regards
>
>
> James
>
>
>
>
>

Thank you for the reply.
I have only just started at the school ( Friday) so finding my way around.
I am not IT trained, just helping out.
The PC's are all networked, and when I went control panel users I found
options of

Admin
Class 1
Class 2
Class 3
Class 4 etc

I will check again on Monday and hopefully be able to provide more ( and
better) information.






"Richard G. Harper" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Windows 98 computers don't have an "administrator" account - all users
> have full rights unless you have used local security settings to change
> that.
>
> --
> Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] (E-Mail Removed)
> * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
> * for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to.
> * My website, such as it is ... http://rgharper.mvps.org/
> * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
>
> "Leonard" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>I have obtained a part time voluntary role within a local school in the
>>ICT department. Nothing technical, defragging, virus scans and general
>>printing problems, maybe helping out with very basic Word and a paint
>>programme.
>>
>> The PCs are networked and I tried to scan a document on one of the PC's
>> with Syphos and it said the data file was 4 months out of date. I guess
>> the main programme to download the data files would be accessed using the
>> administrators privilege.
>>
>> However, although I have a list of all the passwords for each year class,
>> the Admin password was not listed.
>>
>> I have contact previous the admistrator who left the role in June but he
>> said he could not remember ???
>>
>> I also contacted the schools ICT support and they said all was lost, try
>> to guess, eg schools name, area, postcode, but as suspected it simply
>> wasted an hour of my time.
>>
>> Any guidance would be appreciated.
>>
>> kind regards
>>
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>