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wendyma wrote:
I got this laptop and am unable to get past the login screen. It is
trying to login to a Network Domain (it was used at an office by
different people). How can I get past this or do I have to
re-install XP Pro?

I'd say go with the re-install. While it's like this you'll never know
when you trip over an old setting that was appropriate on the network but
no longer in a home machine.

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