Network Type Change Locks Login

[Guest]

I have a notebook that was set up on an institutional network with Windows
2000 Pro. I left the job and was attempting to set up a home network. I
went to the control panel network settings dialogue and changed the network
type from institutional to home network. It asked to reboot. Now I can't
get past the "ctrl-alt-del" login dialogue. It no longer recognizes my login
name and password. There is no longer a "domain" entry line on the login
dialogue box, which makes sense with the change in network type. But I can't
get in. My life is on this PC, literally. Wipping it and reloading Windows
is not an option.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have a notebook that was set up on an institutional network with Windows
2000 Pro. I left the job and was attempting to set up a home network. I
went to the control panel network settings dialogue and changed the network
type from institutional to home network. It asked to reboot. Now I can't
get past the "ctrl-alt-del" login dialogue. It no longer recognizes my login
name and password. There is no longer a "domain" entry line on the login
dialogue box, which makes sense with the change in network type. But I can't
get in. My life is on this PC, literally. Wipping it and reloading Windows
is not an option.

If wipping (wiping?) Windows is not an option then you have
to ask the network administrator from your former employer to
give you the password for the local administrator account. It's
like getting the key for the car that you possibly received from
your former company: It's part of the bargain.

 

[Guest]

The Administrator account had been disabled. I found a utility referenced by
another post that allowed me to unlock the Administrator account and set the
password. That done I'm pack into the system, but my old user account is
gone. The profile information seems to still be there, but I have not been
able to figure out how to make it useful. All my files are there, which is
good. Now I simply have to recover or re-build my desktop and clean up all
of these domain name institutional network references. Emergency over, but a
mess still needs to be straightened out.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Easy!
1. Create an account for yourself.
2. Log in as yourself.
3. Reboot.
4. Log in as administrator.
5. Use xcopy.exe to copy the dormat profile folder
over your own profile folder, using the appropriate
switches to include hidden folders.
(e.g. c:\documents and settings\scared)

 

[Phillip Windell]

1. Login as the Administrator
2. Create a new account for yourself
3. Login as that account to create the profile, log back out.
4. Login as the Administraotr again
5. Rightclick & Properties of "My Computer"
6. Go to the User Profiles Tab.
7. The old account will probably show as "unknown account", select it, click
"Copy to"
8. Browse to the location with you new profile (probably seen as
Username.Machinename) and have it copy the old "unknown account" to the new
one.
9. Do it right the first time,..if you overwrite the one you wanted to keep
you are screwed.
10. Keep you "life" off the computer,...or at least burn important things to
a CD or DVD once in a while.

--
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com
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