Admin, password, and setup

[Guest]

I recently brought a computer from my office to setup in my house. I am
having a couple of problems...

1. I can only log into the old network domain, which I no longer need or
want to do. How can I get rid of this domain?

2. I don't remember the admin password, however the account above has admin
rights. How can I reset the admin password?

3. I would like to setup my computer to log in as an individual user, not as
a network computer since I am no longer linked in the office.

Thanks,

Ari

 

[Guest]

You can take the computer out of the domain. You do this under Control
Panel>System>Computer ID.

However, beware of several points:

You will need to know the LOCAL Administrator password. (or that of any
local user with admin rights)

You will initially lose all of your settings, because your local account is
then treated as a noobie user. You need to transfer the profile from the
domain account to correct this.

If you are an Administrator, you can change local account-apsswords with:

NET USER username password.

However you can't change domain passwords (not even your own!) unless you
are connected to the site.

 

[Malke]

I recently brought a computer from my office to setup in my house. I
am having a couple of problems...

1. I can only log into the old network domain, which I no longer need
or
want to do. How can I get rid of this domain?

2. I don't remember the admin password, however the account above has
admin rights. How can I reset the admin password?

3. I would like to setup my computer to log in as an individual user,
not as a network computer since I am no longer linked in the office.

You would be best served by doing a clean install on this computer.

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install How-To
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Reinstalling_Windows -
What you will need on-hand

If for some reason you don't want to do that, then reset the local
administrator password with NTpasswd. Afterwards, disjoin the computer
from the domain, delete domain user accounts, create new local user
accounts.

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Malke

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I recently brought a computer from my office to setup in my house. I am
having a couple of problems...

1. I can only log into the old network domain, which I no longer need or
want to do. How can I get rid of this domain?

Log in using an account with administrative privileges, and remove the
computer from the domain by adding it to a workgroup. Since this is your
employers' computer, you'd be best advised to ask your employers' IT
department for assistance.

2. I don't remember the admin password, however the account above has admin
rights. How can I reset the admin password?

Since this is your employers' computer, you'd be best advised to ask
your employer's IT department for assistance, particularly as what
you're asking goes directly towards the security of the computer and any
data thereon.

3. I would like to setup my computer .....

Is it your computer, or you employer's, as you said in the first
paragraph? It's hard to over proper advice when the situation changes
mid-stream.

...to log in as an individual user, not as
a network computer since I am no longer linked in the office.

--

Bruce Chambers

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