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WIndows XP Professional Help

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Dreadraven

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Ok guys.. I'm stuck in a bind...
Basically.. I changed my dad's laptop's Domain to my MSHOME workgroup...
And well.. it popped up with a message to create a username and a password..
I was too stupid to write that stuff down.. so like..basically I'm locked out of my computer.

I KNOW that the login name is the same as the Computer Name
and I KNOW that there is no password
But the thing is.. I don't know what the Computer Name is.. It's BANxxxxxxxxxx where xxxxxxx is a bunch of numbers 😛
So ummm yeah.. does anyone know how to help?

I tried pressin delete or F1 as the computer was starting up to enter the BIOS.. but that just popped up a O/S selection screen... I pressed F8 at that.. and the options it gives me are:
Safe Mode
Safe Mode with networking
Safe mode with command prompt

Enable boot logging
enable VGA mode
Last Known Good Configuration (your recent settings that worked)
Directory Services Restore Mode (Windows Domain controllers only)
Debugging Mode

Start WIndows Normally
Reboot


After I pick any of the options.. it just pops me right back to the OS Selection menu... and when I pick an OS it sends me right back to the log in screen which I'm locked out of 😛

Yeah.. this is rather frustrating... ummmm
By the way.. this computer is running Windows XP Professional... and at the OS selection screen it has:
Windows XP Professional
Windows Recovery Console

When I pick windows XP, you can guess that it makes me log in :-X
when I pick the recovery console.. i get a black screen with a little flashing _ at the top left hand corner... and it just stays there... :-[

Can someone help meeee? :-[

Thanks in advance!!!
 
I'm a little confused on what you are saying.

Was this a computer that was previously in a DOMAIN
and you removed it from the Domain and changed it to a WorkGroup?
 
Originally posted by: LiLithTecH
I'm a little confused on what you are saying.

Was this a computer that was previously in a DOMAIN
and you removed it from the Domain and changed it to a WorkGroup?
Click to expand...

indeed, if it was previosly on a domain, and he doesn't have local admin rights, it needs to go back to the domain administrator(poor guy) so he can log in locally and fix the network settings.
 
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