


I'm now thinking of paying $50.00 and calling Microsoft about this. Why would logging on to a domain account affect an entire system's "local" security policy. It seems Microsoft really messed up on this one. Unfortunately, I didn't have system restore turned on. It's got about $7,000 worth of software on it, like every product from Adobe, the Office Pro suite, and all Macromedia software, plus a whole load of other things (I too wonder how the licensing works on all that). Yes, I do own this laptop, however, I cannot format it and re-install a clean version because I leased the image. It's might just be possible that the admins of your domain have locked down the rights on all profiles, I am not familiar with all the details of the group policy but usually local policy overrides group policy when not connected to the domain.Ĭontact your IT department and see what they have to say.įor the last time everyone, I'm logged on LOCALLY! This will make the domain selection appear. If all you see is the user name & password, there should be a box there : Options>. You must select your computer name and your password will probably be different from the Domain password, also. One selection will be the school's domain name, the other will be the name that you have given your computer. The top is the for the user name, the middle is the password and the bottom is for the domain name.
