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by phoniex31

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My labtop was listed as part of a domain on my company's WAN. I changed the settings using the Network ID Wizard in Windows XP to " This computer is for home use and not part of a business network" to network it to my home laptop. Since then I cannot log on to my PC because it is not accepting my old password.

Can anyone help with this so that I can get back access to my laptop?

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by techbro

When you leave a domain, you can only login as using the local user IDs and passwords. When you setup the computer, you were asked to create an Administrator password. If you left it blank, try logging in as "Administrator" and leaving the password blank. If someone else did the original setup, ask them what the local Admin password is (as they may have a standard local admin password that they used).

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