Dan H
January 10th 04, 09:51 AM
Michael:
I did the exact thing you did (although on a W2000
computer) in mid-December, and had the same result: no
password.
I got some good help from a couple of good people, but
their message was that (1) I should never have done it,
and (2) without the Admin password, I'll have to "scratch-
install" or "fresh-install" the operating system. I still
don't see why my password had to go away, frankly...
I followed some info on a Linux program that looks in the
registry and finds passwords. The program "worked" but I
could only get passwords for User accounts, which was
useless ... unless I looked in the wrong places. (I think
the newsgroup was "Security & Administration".)
In the end, I was only saved by the domain administrator
having a record of the Admin password on that particular
machine. Without that (and without an expensive "hacking"
program) I probably would have had to reinstall XP.
This probably won't help you much ... but I feel for you,
and hope you can find the password somehow.
Good luck, Dan H.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hello - I changed my notebook computer set up from a
>domain to a work group (using the system properties and
>the Computer Name tab) and now have a log in screen that
>won't accept any user name or password I try,
>including "administrator" and a "" for the password.
>
>Does anyone know the login to get past this? I no longer
>have access to the domain so I need to move forward with
>the change to the work group I have set up for my home
>network. How do I recover from this without losing any
>data or having to reinstall anything?
>
>My emnail address is .
>
>Thanks for your help!!
>.
>
I did the exact thing you did (although on a W2000
computer) in mid-December, and had the same result: no
password.
I got some good help from a couple of good people, but
their message was that (1) I should never have done it,
and (2) without the Admin password, I'll have to "scratch-
install" or "fresh-install" the operating system. I still
don't see why my password had to go away, frankly...
I followed some info on a Linux program that looks in the
registry and finds passwords. The program "worked" but I
could only get passwords for User accounts, which was
useless ... unless I looked in the wrong places. (I think
the newsgroup was "Security & Administration".)
In the end, I was only saved by the domain administrator
having a record of the Admin password on that particular
machine. Without that (and without an expensive "hacking"
program) I probably would have had to reinstall XP.
This probably won't help you much ... but I feel for you,
and hope you can find the password somehow.
Good luck, Dan H.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hello - I changed my notebook computer set up from a
>domain to a work group (using the system properties and
>the Computer Name tab) and now have a log in screen that
>won't accept any user name or password I try,
>including "administrator" and a "" for the password.
>
>Does anyone know the login to get past this? I no longer
>have access to the domain so I need to move forward with
>the change to the work group I have set up for my home
>network. How do I recover from this without losing any
>data or having to reinstall anything?
>
>My emnail address is .
>
>Thanks for your help!!
>.
>