Joined a workgroup leaving domain config not able to login...

[Dario Vargas]

I joined a workgroup leaving a corporate domain. After
reboot the laptop I'm not able to login with my old
username and password. Forgot administrator password. How
I could get back to the corporate config or been able to
login?

Thanks a lot

Dario

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

If you remove your self from the corporate domain then your domain account
is not valid (since you are not a member of the Domain to perform that
authentication).
The only valid account on the PC will be the local Administrator account.
The password for this account was set at install time for this PC.
You should contact your corporate IT support staff for recovery process (as
they may know the initial install process password).
If you no longer have access to the corporate IT support function then you
will need to clean install the OS again.

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Mike
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[John]

Mike - is the default administrator password blank or
something else - and when you say clean install OS do you
mean from a reformat or can it be tried on the existing
disk?

I wish there was a warning when you change from a domain
to a workgroup that user logins won't work!

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

Mike - is the default administrator password blank or
something else - and when you say clean install OS do you
mean from a reformat or can it be tried on the existing
disk?

I wish there was a warning when you change from a domain
to a workgroup that user logins won't work!

John on an installation of Windows XP you are required to enter a password
for the local Administrator account - this may be blank or something you
set.
Certain machines shipped form OEMs come with a blank password - but any
corporate IT department would change this before releasing the machine to
staff.

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Mike
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