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Hi,
I've had a laptop which has XP Professional installed on it, I used it for a
while at work and they changed some settings that meant that instead of using
the usual XP screen to 'select' which user I was - a pop up window came up
that asked for my network id, password and domain.

As well as this when I go into Control Panel, Users - it's not the same set
of screens and options that lets me add, delete & monidfy users.

It looks like my laptop has been set up as a 'network' pc - I've now left
the company but want to know how to change it back so it looks like a normal
windows xp installation - I don't really want to re-install windows !

Can anybody help ?

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dave said:
Hi,
I've had a laptop which has XP Professional installed on it, I used it for
a while at work and they changed some settings that meant that instead of
using the usual XP screen to 'select' which user I was - a pop up window
came up that asked for my network id, password and domain.

As well as this when I go into Control Panel, Users - it's not the same
set of screens and options that lets me add, delete & monidfy users.

It looks like my laptop has been set up as a 'network' pc - I've now left
the company but want to know how to change it back so it looks like a
normal windows xp installation - I don't really want to re-install windows
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Your laptop was a member of a domain. Now, since you've left the company,
you would like to remove that membership. I understand that you don't want
to do a clean install, but that would be the best solution to entirely
remove company settings.

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install How-To
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#reinstall_Windows - What you
will need on-hand

In order to change the machine without clean installing, you must be able to
log in as *local* Administrator or if there is a *local* user account with
administrative privileges. If there is no local user and/or you don't know
the local Administrator password, you'll need to change it to a blank with
NTpasswd.

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Once you are logged into the local machine (this means not the domain), then
go to the User Accounts applet and make a local account for yourself. Log
into it. If you want to keep any of the data from your domain user account,
copy it over. I don't suggest copying the account settings in this case.

After you know you can log on locally, go to the System applet in Control
Panel, Computer Name tab, and change from a domain to a Workgroup. Now you
can delete the domain user accounts.

If this sounds too complicated - and there is no shame in admitting this
isn't your cup of tea - take the machine to a professional computer repair
shop (not your local version of BigStoreUSA).

Malke
 
Malke,
Thanks for that.

I have got an adminstrator account and password for the machine, so I can
log on as such, and make the changes as you suggested.

Thanks
 
dave said:
Malke,
Thanks for that.

I have got an adminstrator account and password for the machine, so I can
log on as such, and make the changes as you suggested.
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You're welcome. It will be easy, then.

Malke
 
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