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Changed network settings and now password is rejected
I was trying to set up my windows laptop to communicate on my Apple wireless
network and something went wrong. I have a Windows XP Pro on an HP Laptop. This laptop was my business laptop prior to my company closure. I am working on a tax filing and hoped to hook up this computer so I could use it wirelessly at home. When the wireless network was not working, I went into to a wireless setting page and changed my computer to from a business computer (can't remember the actual name) to a home personal computer. The system prompted me to restart the computer to change the settings. When I restarted, I noticed that the Windows login only has two lines: User & Password. Before the change, I had three lines: User, Password and Domain. The system had my user name in the proper box, so I typed in my password and it was rejected. I've tried everything on the help features on-line, but cannot get in the system. I'm sure that it has something to do with my work network configurations and security settings, but I'm lost and really need to get back into my system. |
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Changed network settings and now password is rejected
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:32:27 -0700, Karen wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin: I was trying to set up my windows laptop to communicate on my Apple wireless network and something went wrong. I have a Windows XP Pro on an HP Laptop. This laptop was my business laptop prior to my company closure. I am working on a tax filing and hoped to hook up this computer so I could use it wirelessly at home. When the wireless network was not working, I went into to a wireless setting page and changed my computer to from a business computer (can't remember the actual name) to a home personal computer. The system prompted me to restart the computer to change the settings. When I restarted, I noticed that the Windows login only has two lines: User & Password. Before the change, I had three lines: User, Password and Domain. The system had my user name in the proper box, so I typed in my password and it was rejected. I've tried everything on the help features on-line, but cannot get in the system. I'm sure that it has something to do with my work network configurations and security settings, but I'm lost and really need to get back into my system. You need to log in using a local account on that computer, preferrably the Administrator account. If you can't, search for "Windows reset Administrator password". -- Michael Bednarek http://mbednarek.com/ "POST NO BILLS" |
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Changed network settings and now password is rejected
=?Utf-8?B?S2FyZW4=?= Karen @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in
: I was trying to set up my windows laptop to communicate on my Apple wireless network and something went wrong. I have a Windows XP Pro on an HP Laptop. This laptop was my business laptop prior to my company closure. I am working on a tax filing and hoped to hook up this computer so I could use it wirelessly at home. When the wireless network was not working, I went into to a wireless setting page and changed my computer to from a business computer (can't remember the actual name) to a home personal computer. The system prompted me to restart the computer to change the settings. When I restarted, I noticed that the Windows login only has two lines: User & Password. Before the change, I had three lines: User, Password and Domain. The system had my user name in the proper box, so I typed in my password and it was rejected. I've tried everything on the help features on-line, but cannot get in the system. I'm sure that it has something to do with my work network configurations and security settings, but I'm lost and really need to get back into my system. Try this Microsoft Article: "You cannot log on after you remove the computer from the domain" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317049 HTH, John |
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Changed network settings and now password is rejected
Karen wrote:
I was trying to set up my windows laptop to communicate on my Apple wireless network and something went wrong. I have a Windows XP Pro on an HP Laptop. This laptop was my business laptop prior to my company closure. I am working on a tax filing and hoped to hook up this computer so I could use it wirelessly at home. When the wireless network was not working, I went into to a wireless setting page and changed my computer to from a business computer (can't remember the actual name) to a home personal computer. The system prompted me to restart the computer to change the settings. When I restarted, I noticed that the Windows login only has two lines: User & Password. Before the change, I had three lines: User, Password and Domain. The system had my user name in the proper box, so I typed in my password and it was rejected. I've tried everything on the help features on-line, but cannot get in the system. I'm sure that it has something to do with my work network configurations and security settings, but I'm lost and really need to get back into my system. It was not the "network' you changes actually - but its membership in a "Workgroup" versus a "Domain". You changed it from a computer that was a member of a larger grpoup to a stand-alone computer. It being a member of the domain likely had nothing to do with the issue you were having. ;-) Unfortunately for you - if the business is closed - you are not logging back into that computer with the username you were using. If you know the account information for a local account (non-domain account) you might get onto it without hacking any password - but if you don't - you won't get back on that machine without hacking an account or formatting it completely. If you want to know how to hack the local adminstrative account - please respond and I will get back to you here (or search with Google.) Or you can format it and reinstall from scratch - if by some miracle you have the installation media for the system. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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