>Are you sure you do not have a floopy disk or a cdrom in anyone of your drives when 
>booting up?

Yes, I get this error message when I have the startup disk in the drive. Sorry my 
first message was chaotic; a few minutes later I'd sent this one:

Sorry, I left out some information in the previous post.

Please help. I followed the solution 1 directions for 
Windows 2000, and now I keep getting an administrator logon screen that doesn't accept 
the blank password I put in there.

And when I try to restart with the startup disk, I get the error message "NTLDR is 
missing Press any key to restart "

Actually, I did one thing more than the directions (Double-click the Users icon in 
Control Panel, and choose the Users tab. Turn off the Users must enter a user name 
and password to use this computer option, and click Ok.) 
When I clicked OK, I got an administrator logon screen and just pressed OK, i.e. 
left the password blank.

Since then I was able to at least get back to where I'd been before trying to get 
rid of the login screen. It was very frightening not being able to access the computer 
at all anymore! After trying about 20 or 30 passwords I suddenly got the question 
about whether I'd like to change the administrator password that I've always been 
getting regularly. When I entered a new one, Windows started!

So, 3 questions:
1) Are the directions for Solution 1 incorrect on http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article04-103

2) Is my startup disk defective i.e. useless?

3) What is the purpose of the administrator function if anyone can bypass it and 
become the administrator by guessing at the password 30 times?

Thanks for any help, Ekhart

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