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by damuziq

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I have this laptop using XP Pro & it had a company domain in which I was trying to eliminate the domain & use it at home on my workgroup, so I changed the computer name, so I thought & removed the domain & added a workgroup, but now when I boot up & it brings me to the windows log On screen. No password I use with administrator or my orginal screen name will work to allow me access. A friend of mine gave me Winternals ERD Commander 2005 & I've done what I thought I was suppose to do to reset admin password, but that isn't working. I added the domain back, but I know since I'm not on the domain with the computer that may not work, so I'm at a lost. All I want to do is add this computer to my home workgroup, but now I can't do anything.
Help would be greatly appreciated?

Thanks In Advance!

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by triathlete1981

logging in as the admin on the domain. the laptop will have the password cached so it doesn't matter that you're not literally in the domain and that you're at home. then go into control panel, user accounts. note the admin account that logs in for the computer name, not the domain and change the password.

by damuziq

Well some what. I just did a roll back to the last known good configuration thru the system repair using Winternals ERD Commander 2005, but I still would like to remove this computer off this Domain & use a workgroup, because it is a personal computer, so I now need help putting it on a workgroup w/o having an issue logging in once again?

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