Help! Mom's computer wants to log into non-existant domain

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Awhile back, I setup a computer for my mother-in-law. I do not recall
setting a Administrator password and the machine usually logged in to
the sole user account automatically. Well something changed...maybe
because of grandkid. Who knows.

But now the Windows XP login screen prompts for a password. Blank
doesn't work. I have no idea what else it could be. On failure, it
says that the computer cannot "log into the domain DILBERT", and I
cannot
get into the machine. Dilbert is the name of the computer. However the

machine is standalone and shouldn't be trying to log into a domain.

I tried using the offline "ntpasswd" utility to blank out the
passwords. That didn't work. The utility also said that SYSKEY was
*enabled*...strange...I disabled it.

I'm stuck.

Any ideas?
 
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Guest

Laptop? If so, you are hosed with that syskey password. You should NEVER
give an everyday user Admin rights on a machine.
 
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jmwills said:
Laptop? If so, you are hosed with that syskey password. You should NEVER
give an everyday user Admin rights on a machine.
Click to expand...

Not a laptop. Just a home computer running XP Pro. I'm not sure how
it ever got a syskey password. Don't most home users run with Admin
rights?
 

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