Logging in without an account & password

[Rob]

I have a laptop that was part of a company domain. The
user took the laptop home & for whatever reason decided to
remove it from the domain and add it to their Home
workgroup instead - they don't have any User Names or
Passwords on their workgroup.
Having done that and rebooted, they were asked to Log In
but no name/pw combination was accepted. The same is true
when the laptop is standalone.
Any ideas how to get in to the computer to pull it back
into the domain?
Thanks a lot,
Rob

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

I have a laptop that was part of a company domain. The
user took the laptop home & for whatever reason decided to
remove it from the domain and add it to their Home
workgroup instead - they don't have any User Names or
Passwords on their workgroup.
Having done that and rebooted, they were asked to Log In
but no name/pw combination was accepted. The same is true
when the laptop is standalone.
Any ideas how to get in to the computer to pull it back
into the domain?
Thanks a lot,

Log on with the Local Administrator account.
That account will exist.

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[Rob]

I've tried to log on with just a username of Administrator
and it won't accept that - even if I boot in Safe Mode.

Domain is not an option on the login screen, just user
name & password).
This laptop is Win XP Pro by the way.

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

I've tried to log on with just a username of Administrator
and it won't accept that - even if I boot in Safe Mode.

Domain is not an option on the login screen, just user
name & password).
This laptop is Win XP Pro by the way.

The LOCAL admin account may have had it's name changed.
This is fairly common in corporate environments.
As this was a company laptop I would assume it was built using standard
procedures etc.

If all else fails then there a number of third party products (some very
expensive) that claim to be able to reset the local admin password (if you
do not know it), you may wish to look into these.

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Mike
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[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Once you find it, I suggest taking away the domain users' local admin rights
before giving them the computer back.

 

[Guest]

Thanks again Mike - I'll keep trying to find the right
details and if I can't get in on the Local Admin account I
guess I have to re-install Win XP