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I am attempting to help a friend with her laptop that has Windows XP
installed. She has it as part of a normal windows network, not a domain. It
has never been part of a domain. At some point, something changed (it is
unknown what changed at this time) and now after she logs in, it comes up
with this message "the system cannot log you on now because the domain
<domain name> is not available". I have booted to safe mode and attempted to
log in as the Administrator and have the same problem. I have tried changing
the software hive with the one in the 'repair' directory and still have the
same issue. I'm at a loss as to what to try next....short of reinstalling
Windows.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I am attempting to help a friend with her laptop that has Windows XP
installed. She has it as part of a normal windows network, not a domain. It
has never been part of a domain. At some point, something changed (it is
unknown what changed at this time) and now after she logs in, it comes up
with this message "the system cannot log you on now because the domain
<domain name> is not available". I have booted to safe mode and attempted to
log in as the Administrator and have the same problem. I have tried changing
the software hive with the one in the 'repair' directory and still have the
same issue. I'm at a loss as to what to try next....short of reinstalling
Windows.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.