Howdo youremovethe administratorpassword for windows 2000 professional becasuse we lost the password and I can't figure out how to delete the account off of the computer can you please help me....



Thanks
Kendra Hall

You can write a VBscript that will remove a user from the local administrator group on all the pc in your domain. Then you set the script up to be a startup script in group policy and it will remove the user from every computers local admin group when the computer boots up. We also use this script to change the local administrator account's name and password. If the systems are Windows 2000 there are some AD dll's that have to be registered. If they are Windows XP, it will work with out any dll registration.

Sample....

Dim strLocalAdminGroup
Dim strComputer
Dim remadmins

Set WshShell = Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
Set WshSysEnv = WshShell.Environment("SYSTEM")
Set WshUserEnv = WshShell.Environment("User")
Set WshProEnv = WshShell.Environment("Process")

strComputer = WshProEnv("COMPUTERNAME")
remadmins = array("DomainName\UserID","Everyone")
strLocalAdminGroup = "Administrators"


For i = lbound(remAdmins) to ubound(remAdmins)
Set grp = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer & "/" & strLocalAdminGroup)
member = "WinNT://" & remAdmins(i)
if grp.Ismember(member) = True then
grp.Remove(member)
end if
next

That script will also remove the local "everyone" group from the local administrators group. If the account is local then leave off the domain name and slash in the array.

Here is a one line command;
net user ACCOUNTNAME /delete

NET LOCALGROUP administrators UserName /delete

change UserName with required name & use this command in batch file.