Worst Error message In the history of Windows.

[Guest]

I did a Search on this first hoping to find a solution but found no one in a
similiar situation as Iam now. I have a Toshiba Laptop, OS is Windows XP Pro,
and is mostly for home use- just sits in my room. It only had 1 user
account on it with no p@ssword necessary to log in. One day, I start the
laptop up, and I'm prompted to enter a p@ssword for my user-account. I have
never had to do this before so I was immediately puzzled. Turns out no matter
what I type whether it be jibberish or nothing at all, I get the error
message "System Cannot Log You on Because Domain TOSHIBA-USER Is Not
Available". The problem with this is, the laptop was never part of a domain,
and I'm to computer illiterate to accidentally set one up. I'm not even sure
I fully understand the concept of a domain. It won't let me log in safe mode
at all so thats out of the question. I've pretty much read everything on the
internet possible and nothing has helped. You guys are my last hope and I
really hope to get some kind of help on this.

I've found this 'fix' on another forum but I think the person made a typo
somewhere or I just don't fully understand what he did. Heres what he said

"
I built a parallel installation of windows 2000 on the same machine/same
hard disk as the broken installation.

I then used the REPLACE command with th /U switch to replace all DLL's in
the old winnt\system32 directory with the DLL's from the new winnt\system32
directory.

Voila - system working again. So clearly there ws a dodgy DLL somewhere but
I have no idea which one - I did check to make sure it wasn't the DLL
referred to in Microsoft's problem solution instructions - it was not.

So thanks to Windows for burning an entire day of my life. I'm just glad I
managed to find a way to fix it becasue it took me two years to biuld up the
configuration of that machine."


Can somebody clarify maybe step by step what exactly he did here? And by any
chance if it would work with XP. It sounds fairly simple so if anyone can
help it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again

-Monty

 

[jopa66]

Sorry I can't offer any direct insight or fixes but the following links may
help.

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
http://www.loginrecovery.com/

 

[Kerry Brown]

I did a Search on this first hoping to find a solution but found no
one in a similiar situation as Iam now. I have a Toshiba Laptop, OS
is Windows XP Pro, and is mostly for home use- just sits in my room.
It only had 1 user account on it with no p@ssword necessary to
log in. One day, I start the laptop up, and I'm prompted to enter a
p@ssword for my user-account. I have never had to do this before so I
was immediately puzzled. Turns out no matter what I type whether it
be jibberish or nothing at all, I get the error message "System
Cannot Log You on Because Domain TOSHIBA-USER Is Not Available". The
problem with this is, the laptop was never part of a domain, and I'm
to computer illiterate to accidentally set one up. I'm not even sure
I fully understand the concept of a domain. It won't let me log in
safe mode at all so thats out of the question. I've pretty much read
everything on the internet possible and nothing has helped. You guys
are my last hope and I really hope to get some kind of help on this.

I've found this 'fix' on another forum but I think the person made a
typo somewhere or I just don't fully understand what he did. Heres
what he said

"
I built a parallel installation of windows 2000 on the same
machine/same hard disk as the broken installation.

I then used the REPLACE command with th /U switch to replace all
DLL's in the old winnt\system32 directory with the DLL's from the new
winnt\system32 directory.

Voila - system working again. So clearly there ws a dodgy DLL
somewhere but I have no idea which one - I did check to make sure it
wasn't the DLL referred to in Microsoft's problem solution
instructions - it was not.

So thanks to Windows for burning an entire day of my life. I'm just
glad I managed to find a way to fix it becasue it took me two years
to biuld up the configuration of that machine."


Can somebody clarify maybe step by step what exactly he did here? And
by any chance if it would work with XP. It sounds fairly simple so if
anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again

-Monty

It sounds like somehow your laptop got joined to a domain. At the Welcome
screen press Ctrl-Alt-Del twice which should should bring up the logon
window. Try a user name of administrator with no password. Make sure you are
set to logon to the local machine and not the TOSHIBA-USER domain.

Once you are logged on you need to change back to a workgroup instead of a
domain.

Here are some links that may help.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=321305

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;295017

Kerry