Re: can't log in

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tennisnut wrote:
this was a machine that was joined to our work domain.

I think I might be totally up the creek because the user said there
were no disks that came with it (i.e., start-up or recovery).

"John John (MVP)" wrote:

You need to log on to a local administrator account, if you don't
know the password you can use this procedure and restore the machine
to an earlier date to just before you disjoined the machine from the
domain, you will then be able to logon again with your domain
credentials:

How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP
from starting
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/

Is this a work machine, a machine that was joined to your work
domain?

John

tennisnut wrote:
I was having problems on a laptop. I decided to change the domain
and not have it connect to our network. In my haste, I apparently
changed a password without realizing it, and now cannot log in at
all when Windows XP Professional starts up.

I get the CTRL ALT DEL screen with the prevous user name, but no
password works. I've tried changing the user to Adminisstrator
with no password--no luck. I've tried booting in safe mode without
networking, and the CTRL ALT DEL screen keeps coming up. I've
tried to boot to a command prompt, with no luck.

How can I get past this so I can even get to "control
userpasswords2".

I've rendered this laptop useless and need help! (I have just
enough knowledge to be dangerous, but not enough to know what I'm
doing.)



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