Re: [Q] How to remove a computer from a domain

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From: Hwasoo (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/12/04 

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 07:41:51 -0700

Thank you for your tip.
But my computer is not connected to the domain, so
when I tried to do that, it asks me domain user and
password to remove my comouter from the domain.
In other words, it is standalone now.

>-----Original Message-----
>Right click My Computer select Properties select
Computer Name
>select Change select Workgroup give it any workgroup
name click OK
>
>Hope this helps
> Gulper
>
>
>"Hwasoo" <hslee@alum.rpi.edu> wrote in message
>news:b64101c4376d$72edda50$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hello,
>>
>> Here is a situation I have suffered.
>>
>> I have a computer which was in a domain but it is not.
>> Every time I log on it, it keeps complaining that the
>> computer is not in the domain.
>> So I want to remote this computer from the domain.
>> Unfortunetaly my computer is not in the domain now.
>>
>> In this case how can I remove my computer from the
domain
>> even though it is not in the domain?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
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