Re: HELP can't logon to my computer

From: Shenan Stanley (newshelper_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/29/05 

Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:53:32 -0500

Jill wrote:
> I need help fast...i can't logon to my computer, im using windows XP
> professional... i was trying to create a workgroup and it said i
> belonged to a domain already and it had to be changed before i could
> create the workgroup...so i change my domain to workgroup and then
> restarted like it said...however now i can't logon to my
> computer...no user name or password that i can think of will work..i
> need to know of a way i can get around the logon so i can access my
> files..please help!

Your computer was in a domain...
You removed it from this domain, so the domain username/passwords you once
used no longer work.

You must use a LOCAL account on the machine - there had to have been at
least ONE before the machine could have been joined to the domain in
question. That is the username/password you must use now that you removed
it from whatever domain it was a member of.

- Is this your computer or a company computer?
- Why were you trying to "create a workgroup"?
  (normally unnecessary - just 'makes things searchable' in an easier way.)
- Assuming the answer to the first question is "Your Computer", did you set
this machine up? What was the username/password you used? Have you tried
"Administrator" with no password at all?
- Who joined it to the domain originally... They know the username/password
(or did) of the local account - unless you/they/others changed it.

Try here:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/lostpass.htm

And if worse comes to worse:

Hack your password:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

Another Password Hack:
http://www.thomasmathiesen.com/itak/html/software.html 

-- 
Shenan Stanley
     MS-MVP
-- 
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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