"Wei Lu" wrote:

> Hi Betty,
>
> Thank you for using MSDN Managed Newsgroup Support.
>
> From your description, my understanding of this issue is: You want to
> change your SQL Server 2000 running account. If I misunderstood your
> concern, please feel free to let me know.
>
> Please follow these steps to resolve your problem:
> 1. In the Start menu, click Run, type services.msc and then click OK. This
> will appear a Sevices dialogbox.
>
> 2. In the Services, find the windows servicec for SQL Server. For default
> instance, the service name is MSSQLSERVER and for named instance, it is
> MSSQ$InstanceName.
>
> 3. Right-click the service, click Properties in the menu.
>
> 4. Click the Log On tab. Chose the Local System account under the Log on
> as: label.
>
> 5. Click OK and then Right-click the Service, click Restart to restart the
> service.
>
> 6. After doing this, you can try to connect to your SQL Server Instance.
>
> Hope this will be helpful!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Wei Lu
> Microsoft Online Community Support
>
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