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Getting past a windows log on password?

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  • Lady_K
    Lady_K Posts: 4,429 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Does anyone have any idea exactly what I'm supposed to tick or untick or disable on this page? http://www.pcloginnow.com/loginnow_guide.html It might seem simple tosome people but I ant work out what to do here.

    There are 7 users listed 5 of them have administrator user types the list is something like this:

    administrator - is administrator ticked, password never expires ticked
    user - password never expires ticked
    user - password is empty ticked, is disabled ticked, password never expires ticked
    administrator - is administrator ticked, is disabled ticked, password never expires ticked
    administrator - is administrator ticked, password nevr expires ticked
    administrator - is administratot ticked,password never xpires ticked
    administrator - is administrator ticked, is disabled ticked, password never expires ticked

    How should I cange these before I click to next page or exit?

    The first one is the one that administers the computer and the domain
    Thanx

    Lady_K
  • Lady_K
    Lady_K Posts: 4,429 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    do i leave the password never expires still ticked aswell as administrator and passwrd is empty? as that diagram is a bit confusing it shows it as blank and password never expires where it says 2 click next
    Thanx

    Lady_K
  • Lady_K
    Lady_K Posts: 4,429 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Everything went ok, I have got into the pc now thanks to people helping here.

    Is there any way I can stop the log on window and this domain thing?

    I've looked in local users and groups and there are 6 listed including this administrator one.

    One is an ASP.NET machine account do I need that? Should I disable or delete all of them apart from the administrator one?

    these are the accounts:

    administrator
    guest (disabled)
    staff
    support remote desktop help assistance (disabled)
    aspnet machine account
    support microsoft help service (disabled)
    Thanx

    Lady_K
  • MBNewB
    MBNewB Posts: 151 Forumite
    Right Click My Computer

    Goto the Computer Name tab at the top

    Look for the Change button to rename or join the computer to a domain and click it

    Change the PC to be a member of a workgroup and click ok all the way back out. The PC will tell you that it needs to restart to apply the changes. Do this and post back what you have after the reboot :)
  • Lady_K
    Lady_K Posts: 4,429 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Just tried that and the ok button is greyed out before and after me trying to tick workgroup so it wont change.

    I clicked on the more bit and it says primary dns suffix name and then net bios computer name. in between those though is a ticked box saying change primary dns suffix then domain menbership changes.

    I'm not changing any names yet just ticking the workgroup, should I be doing anything differently?
    Thanx

    Lady_K
  • BritBrat
    BritBrat Posts: 3,764 Forumite
    Lady_K wrote: »

    One is an ASP.NET machine account do I need that? Should I disable or delete all of them apart from the administrator one?

    You can delete ASP.NET, BUT to be on the safe side just disable it for now as you can delete or enable it later if everything is OK.

    I just have one name with admin rights and never set passwords or let passwords expire.
  • MBNewB
    MBNewB Posts: 151 Forumite
    Lady_K wrote: »
    Just tried that and the ok button is greyed out before and after me trying to tick workgroup so it wont change.

    I clicked on the more bit and it says primary dns suffix name and then net bios computer name. in between those though is a ticked box saying change primary dns suffix then domain menbership changes.

    I'm not changing any names yet just ticking the workgroup, should I be doing anything differently?

    Tick the workgroup option, type Home into the workgroup box and then the ok button should become active, click ok :)
  • Lady_K
    Lady_K Posts: 4,429 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Dont know what I'm doing wrong but the ok button still isnt active. The name showed up as home but with the domain name after it. I went to clear the domain name but it still didnt activate the ok button
    Thanx

    Lady_K
  • MBNewB
    MBNewB Posts: 151 Forumite
    Can you take a screenshot of what you have?
  • BritBrat
    BritBrat Posts: 3,764 Forumite
    You have to make a change or the OK button will stay greyed out.

    Before any change:

    1ComputerName.jpg

    After a change:

    2ComputerName.jpg
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