First off I'd like to say hello to everyone. I just joined Anti-Online yesterday, trying to find help with a problem. After looking around I came across Yohev's post, and could see that we had an almost similar problem.

This past Christmas I recieved a laptop as a gift from a friend. They had purchased it at a school auction, and had given it to me..... without reformatting the device first. The System has a Networking logon screen that pops up after the system boots up. Now usually you just have to put in your personal log on name and password and TA-DA I'm on my desktop. But, if for some reason the computer freezes up and I have to shut it off manually (aka The power button) I get a new password screen asking for username password and the domain I'm using. I've always managed to get past this little hurdle by restarting the machine almost a dozen times and pressing the enter key before the system boots up, or also taking out the PC card before the system goes on. It's aways worked before, but now it just doesn't seem to work.

Now I would just stick in the recovery CD and be done with this probelm, but I've been traveling and I have misplaced the CD. I am getting another one, but I have one major file that I am reluctant to lose. I had soem of it saved on a zip disk, but I've done some considerable updating since then and I don't want to lose that work.

Since I've gotten past this problem before I know that it can be done. I just need some help in doing it. So, would any of you kind people out there help a desperate girl?


PS. My system uses Win98