cant log on my password majically has changed??pls help

[stuart]

Hi there to whoever is listenin,I am from south africa and
have a hp nx9000 laptop for home use,I am the
administrator and have only had to type in my password
once when the pc is turned on and I am up and running,I
have been going along fine for 8 months then out of the
blue with no one having access to my pc exept my daughter
of 2 who sometimes touches the key pad,my pc says that it
can not log me on the the specified domain as it doesnt
exist or has been changed????this to me seems like the
same message you get if you type in your password
incorrectly,,,dont know what to do hp says that i have to
re-install my os and loose all my info,,,I simply cant as
it has my whole life on it,,so much important pics ect
that I would die if I lost,,yes and I sam an idiot who
nrever did any backups,,pls pls pls help...thank you so so
much..stuart

 

[Tin]

are you running in domain mode? like say for example microsoft.com domain?

click on the "Options >>" button (at the logon screen after you hit
Ctrl+Alt+Del) and make sure in the "log on to:" is your computer name
(computername -this computer).

Give me more details about your environment like network info
(dsl,t1,dial-up), Let me know how that goes.

Tin,
n0bOdy

 

[Guest]

You may want to login via safe mode with networking. This is done by hittting the F8 key during boot-up. From there choose the administrator account and see if you can rest your password. If this diesnt work then disjoin your domain and rejoin.

 

[Guest]

Boot the computer to safe mode

For safe mode shut down the computer and restart. The moment you see the first screen (in your case you would get the HP logo) start tapping the F8 key on the keyboard (make sure you press and hold it, but tapp it)

Tap it for 5-6 times and you will get windows advanced boot options menu

Select the first option 'safe mode' and hit enter
it will ask you to select the operating system and would 'windows xp home edition' highligted, just hit enter

You will get the logon screen, select 'Administrator'

You will get an message for safe mode, just click on 'yes'

Then go to control panel-->user accounts

It will show you your user account. click on it and remove the password

Then reboot the computer and now you will be able to logon using your user account