Saving grace...
Sep. 29th, 2004 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI don't know how or why, but we had apparently misplaced the Windows 2000 Administrator's password for the FedEx machine at the store. As a result, I was unable to fix a problem that was slowly making the machine unusable, until finally an attempt to upgrade the FedEx shipping software failed owing to a "low memory" condition and the unit would do little more than boot up.
Fortunately, there are resources out there that can help. I'd read about the existence of a solution that involved a Linux boot disk and a disk of optional drivers for the Windows file system, and earlier this week, I tracked it down at Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, Bootdisk / CD.
Fortunately, I just need a plain-vanilla password reset, which the software accomplished in short order. I've archived the disk and the instructions in case I ever need it again.
The low memory condition was apparently caused by the existence of something like 50 programs of uncertain parentage (though some had names like "BargainSearch" -- which is not necessarily a real name, it just sounds like a program I found). I deleted the lot from the Temp directory and from the registry (figuring I had little to lose, as we had already moved FedEx to another machine at the store), and rebooted.
No problems so far!
Cheers...
Fortunately, there are resources out there that can help. I'd read about the existence of a solution that involved a Linux boot disk and a disk of optional drivers for the Windows file system, and earlier this week, I tracked it down at Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, Bootdisk / CD.
Fortunately, I just need a plain-vanilla password reset, which the software accomplished in short order. I've archived the disk and the instructions in case I ever need it again.
The low memory condition was apparently caused by the existence of something like 50 programs of uncertain parentage (though some had names like "BargainSearch" -- which is not necessarily a real name, it just sounds like a program I found). I deleted the lot from the Temp directory and from the registry (figuring I had little to lose, as we had already moved FedEx to another machine at the store), and rebooted.
No problems so far!
Cheers...
