G
George Mizzell
My IT guy and I were trying to set up my laptop and desktop to see each
other over the cable network. He asked me to assign my desktop to a
workgroup (it was not assigned either to a workgroup or a domain
previously).
Well, once I did that and rebooted, windows no longer recognized my name and
password. It also didn't allow signing on as an administrator because I had
not previously assigned a password to the administrator.
We have looked all over and tried everything to get into the system so I can
log on to windows to no avail. Lynn (our IT guy) did the same thing on his
desktop at the office, but because it had been associated with a domain, it
recognized the administrator password we use on our machines and he was able
to restore his. That didn't help mine.
I was hoping you might have seen this problem before and have a way to get
back into windows when the password for administrator is unknown short of
reinstalling windows and reformatting the hard drive.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this without reinstalling?
George
other over the cable network. He asked me to assign my desktop to a
workgroup (it was not assigned either to a workgroup or a domain
previously).
Well, once I did that and rebooted, windows no longer recognized my name and
password. It also didn't allow signing on as an administrator because I had
not previously assigned a password to the administrator.
We have looked all over and tried everything to get into the system so I can
log on to windows to no avail. Lynn (our IT guy) did the same thing on his
desktop at the office, but because it had been associated with a domain, it
recognized the administrator password we use on our machines and he was able
to restore his. That didn't help mine.
I was hoping you might have seen this problem before and have a way to get
back into windows when the password for administrator is unknown short of
reinstalling windows and reformatting the hard drive.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this without reinstalling?
George