23-05-2010, 18:53
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Re: Windows XP setting
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Originally Posted by zing
you are right I have not experienced these things before
Why dont you try a live linux disc then you can see if open office is compt with all your office files,then if it is you can format and use open office on the new format
I am sorry I got it wrong but it was the way you highlighted gift with the tags that in type makes imo the reader assume you meant something else and tbh it did look fishy to me. Well my bad and I apoligise for that
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No need for apology 
Well, if you insist, I will take it
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24-05-2010, 10:13
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Re: Windows XP setting
If the company shut down then surely the laptop would be part of their assets and under the control of the liquidator? *sigh*
Anyway, Sysprep will alow you to change the domain but it may break everything in process if you don't know what you're doing - working in an IT dept you should (which you didn't because I've just re-read the thread). Find someone who does know what they're doing and get them to run through Sysprep.
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24-05-2010, 10:19
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Re: Windows XP setting
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Originally Posted by Horace
If the company shut down then surely the laptop would be part of their assets and under the control of the liquidator? *sigh*
Anyway, sysprep will alow you to change the domain but it may break everything in process if you don't know what you're doing - working in an IT dept you should.
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Not necessarily, my company closed the UK office and moved it to Belgium.
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24-05-2010, 16:59
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Re: Windows XP setting
Right, it is necessary for a clear statement now. Otherwise, I would be a thief.
The company was anounced shut down last year because the mother company decided to trasfer whole lines to far east. We were made redundency but were asked by mother company (in your sense, the creditor) to help the transfer. As the result, we would receive the ex-gratia because, by law, we had no responsibility for such work (do not argue with me about it, we were told by company boss, well, under the table).
A few of you kindly suggested I should ask IT to reload default before I left company. That is true in general but false in my case. The IT people who can do it left company before we carried out transfer. I had to take this laptop with me to the far east and when we came back after a good few weeks, we did not even have the access to the office because it was rented out already. If the IT guy reloaded the default, I would have no chance to use the laptop in mother company's intranet in far east.
Even in an extreme case like an independent creditor (in another word, asset stripper), they have to hire us to do the transfer/stripping as they need professional.
If you are the creditor and I ask for a laptop for what you ask me to do, would you give me a two-finger to let the millions of pounds of equipment rusted in field or you just hand over this bloody £200 laptop to make me happy working? You judge it!
Right, please please please let us stop here now because I had enough and I had enough help from those big hand. I know what I will do. Thanks!
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25-05-2010, 07:51
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Re: Windows XP setting
I am going to make the assumption that the notebook may not have been secured fully, if it has, then there will be additional steps to take, but since it's easily overlooked I will assume the local administrator password is blank.
When you get the login screen, it should list the username, have a space for the password, and below that list the domain. Try the following
Username - Administrator
Password - Blank
Domain - Local logon or whatever it's called.
If it lets you in let us know and we will tell you how to leave the domain.
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25-05-2010, 08:05
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Re: Windows XP setting
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Originally Posted by frank.lui
.... I do not have the XP software CD and all other stuff. So re-format is not an option....
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You might consider buying second-hand, e.g. 290436091302 in eBay.
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25-05-2010, 21:56
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Re: Windows XP setting
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Originally Posted by Lord Nikon
I am going to make the assumption that the notebook may not have been secured fully, if it has, then there will be additional steps to take, but since it's easily overlooked I will assume the local administrator password is blank.
When you get the login screen, it should list the username, have a space for the password, and below that list the domain. Try the following
Username - Administrator
Password - Blank
Domain - Local logon or whatever it's called.
If it lets you in let us know and we will tell you how to leave the domain.
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No luck. It seems the admin is password locked at local (it is called 'this computer') because the computer said 'make sure your username and paswork are correct, etc....'
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