Windows 2000 automatically sets up an administrator. You can try putting
the windows 2000 disk and then go to 'start', 'run', then type sfc then
click ok. If that doesn't help then rerun the windows 2000 disk but
click the option to fix.

Aces News wrote:

>Hello everyone.
>
>I don't know what happened but I'm running Windows 2000 and when I went into
>settings to access the control panel, it's no longer there.  I need to
>change settings in there.  I ran control.exe but I got a message saying I
>didn't have permissions and that I should contact my system administrator.
>I haven't changed my account or password so I can't figure out what's wrong.
>
>I am the only one who uses this computer.
>
>Can I somehow bypass these settings somewhere?
>
>I don't remember setting up an administrator account as I wanted it to be my
>default.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>James
>
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