Re: Windows 2000 on laptop changed it's password

From: Scott Harding - MS MVP (scrockel_at_**NO_SPAM**hotmail.com)
Date: 08/13/04 

Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:42:40 -0700

Problem is when you go from a domain to a workgroup. On a domain your
account does not exist on your laptop and once you moved to a workgroup you
lost your account. This is actually a very common problem as people do not
understand the implications of doing this. Your only option is to take it
back to the domain at work or wherever the domain was and have it joined
back to the domain by loggin on with the built in administrator account. You
could also search Google for password change tools to reset the local
adminsitrator account. You will find lots. There are also many posted to
these newsgroups too. 

-- 
Scott Harding
MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+
Microsoft MVP - Windows NT Server
"Jure Sah" <jure.sah@guest.arnes.si> wrote in message
news:869Tc.1356$F6.267675@news.siol.net...
> Hello,
>
> I was working with a laptop that had Windows 2000 preinstalled. It was
> originaly configured to be part of a company network and I was just onto
>   taking off personal files before the laptop would be sent back to the
> company to be purged.
>
> I had my own username and password and the company had the administrator
> password.
>
> In an attempt to make the laptop accessable from the home LAN (made of
> one Windows 98, two Windows ME computers and a modern router with DHCP
> server) I've tried to change the laptop's network settings, namely the
> workgroup name and IP assignment method to what was appropriate to the
> other computers in the home LAN. Some kind of wizzard popped up and
> since I could see it asking me for little more than the workgroup name,
> I filled in the data and let it do it's stuff. It asked me to reboot and
> so I did (used a "Finnish" button).
>
> After this my laptop was truely Finnished, since I could no longer log
> on using my username and password. I used the other computers and looked
> it up on USENET what should I look out for and I've tried all possible
> Capslock and Numlock combinations and nothing worked. I've also tried
> the system restore and connecting and dissconnecting the network cable,
> however nothing worked.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Also, I would love to understand how this Windows 2000 'network magic'
> works because at my workplace where I help with the technical support,
> we've had some major nightmares with dual-boot computers, where we
> exchanged Windows 2000 and Windows 98SE installations (half the things
> we do as a company is severely impractical in windows 2000, and we
> require to be compatible because half of our clients are also on Windows
> 98SE for the same reasons) and the two seemed to be sharing registry
> data, resulting in dissaster.
>
>
> Thank you for your time.
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