Re: Remove from domain

Frank Reeder wrote:

I have a laptop I inherited from my old company and it is still a
member of their domain. I would like to change it back to just
workgroup and maybe change the computer name. All of these options are
grayed out. My account is in the local admin group. I'm also getting
tons of error messages in Event Viewer since the PC cannot attach to
the domain controller. What can I do to delete the domain from my
laptop?

I have WinXP Pro service pack 2.

In your case, the best thing to do is format the drive and do a clean
install of Windows.

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

Scroll down to the pertinent section at this link to see what you will
need to reinstall Windows:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Backing_Up

Malke
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