I purchased a laptop from my company and it still has the company boot up process (user name & password--I know both--). I'm trying to elimate that process. I purchased a similar laptop that was running Win98 and was able to elimate a similar 'corporate boot up' process using directions that I received from techtv.com. However, the process does not work for Win2000 and I'm unable to find directions to do so. I'd appreciate assistance from anybody who can help. Thanks so much Richie

Control,Alt,delete,change password. Type in the old password and then tab down without putting a new password in. You will then be able to just hit cancel when logging on instead of putting in a password

seat6 Thank you for the response, however after trying your suggestion, I get an error message, [The system cannot change your password now because the domain 'COMPANY NAME' is not available]. Also, on my Win98 machine I did away with the company network boot up completely and just started up as if you brought it home from a retai store. I was hoping to do that on this machine as well. Thanks again and if you have any other suggestions I'd greatly appreciate it.

You'll need to login to the machine (change in the third login box) using a local account. You cannot use a Domain account for this process. You can then change the machine from the Domain to Workgroup and you will no longer have the option to login to the non-existent Domain. *** If you don't know the local Admin account, then you have two choices, call the company NA and ask for that local information (which he/she probably won't disclose), or have that person login for you and change the Administrator account information.

Jennifer is close. Since you know the network logon and password, you CAN use it to log on to the machine. It just will not connect any network settings etc. Then you can change to workgroup as stated, or go into the security settings and disable the requirement for log on.

Tech Daddy is close too. :) If this is a cached login and it's part of the Local Administrator group, then you won't have to login locally to change from Domain to Workgroup. However, you will have to change the local account while logged in with the cached Domain account. Otherwise, you'll be in the same boat...no login capability...

Thanks again to all. But problem is, the company is out of business. So I have no way of logging in to the network or contacting anybody for the Admin info. Does that mean I'm SOL or out of luck? As mentioned, I did this with another machine running Win98 and it was a snap. This doesn't seem to be a snap. :)