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Removing all domain records from windows 7 pc.

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Compman55

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I have a PC that I had joined to a domain for practice. (home.local)

I ruined the windows server 2008 r2 install when I forced a x86 sound card driver thru and could not reverse it and decided to just reinstall as an easier method.

Now I put that PC back on workgroup and removed the user accounts that were part of the domain. After the server is back running again, I named it (home.local) again. Now when I rejoin that windows 7 pc on the domain it picks it up as (home.local 2)

So the PC remembered somehow and the folder redirect will not work.

Any solution on how to remove ALL prior domain records from this windows 7 PC?
 
1. Log on as local admin.
2. Right click computer, select properties
3. Advanced System settings --> advanced --> Settings under the User profiles
4. Delete any "unknown" user accounts and the account your having problems with. At this point, only your local admin/default profile should be there.
5. log off and log back in with your original user

It isn't so much the records are still there, it just your profile name exists already and but has a different SID in the "Users" folder. You could have also before joining the domain with the same user name removed the profile and then joined and logged in.
 
Id did just this procedure as you mention. It did not resolve the problem.

The PC still remembers it was connect to home.local, so now it assigned it as home.local 2

I want to purge all this and just join as home.local.
 
It sounds like you're talking about the 'title' of the network that shows up in the Network and Sharing Center, yeah?

Click on the icon for the network itself, and you should get this window where you can 'Merge and delete network locations' in the bottom left:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1377498/Temp/Capture.PNG

edit: note that this totally shouldn't affect domain membership in a meaningful way, afaik
 
When you hover over the network icon in the task bar, it displays

home.local 2
Internet Access

My folder redirection does not work on this PC, but does on all others.
 
Is folder redirection being enforced via a GPO? Can you run a gpresult on the client to confirm the GPO is being applied?
 
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