XP Local User-URGENT

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Mark [Support]

Hello all.

One of my users switched his XP Pro machine from a domain to a workgroup.
Now when he reboots it prompts for a username and password like always but
not letting him login. I suspect that all the users that logged into that
machine [its a laptop] all had domain logins and nothing is local.

I can access the hard drive by using the windows 2000 recovery console, but
I need to setup a new user or add a local user with admin rights to the
machine. Any suggestions on how to get back into this XP Machine?

Cheers
mark
 
Mark,

There will still be an account called Administrator (unless renamed) on the
Local Machine.
The password for this account was initial set during the install of the
operating system.
Contact who ever performed the install for the password.

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Mike
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