[lug] Escaping TurboTax to Open Source?

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

I once had to reset a W2K password, and I used a Linux live CD.  I can't
remember which one, but if you google "reset windows 2000 password
linux", you'll find quite a few hits.

Here's one: http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm Scroll
down to the "Free Tools" heading.

-d

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 at 17:32 -0600, Elyse M. Grasso soliloquized thusly:
> 
> For those who don't want to use an online service and will accept a halfway 
> solution, I found an article that says this year's TaxAct works with WinE. It 
> does in fact install cleanly once Wine is working. 
> 
> I need to find my last year's hardcopy tax papers or remember the password for 
> the Windows machine I did last year's taxes on before I'll be able to say 
> more than that.
>  http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129304-c,linux/article.html
> 
> Anyone have ideas for getting into a Win 2K Pro machine that hasn't been used 
> in a year? I've tried every password I can think of. And I think I need Win 
> 2K actually running: a Linux livedisk with an NTFS module will just get at 
> the TurboTax proprietary format file. I don't think I saved a pdf.
> -- 
> Elyse Grasso
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