Hi FolksI've been a muppet !!The company I worked for has been liquidated and i got to buy my computer. I brought it home and wanted to transfer some files from it to my home network, so I changed the Domain from the 'work-one' to WORKGROUP - thinking this would be simple way of doing that. How wrong was I ?? I have looked on the forums and seen this a was silly mistake. So, I can login using the administrator password but all my data is gone. I had read that it is all 'cached' somewhere but I don't know how to link the computer to it again (I don't really understand how caching works). As the company has closed now, I will not be able to connect the PC back to the server again (that looked to be the easiest way of repair).I would appreciate any helpcheers1 person needs an answerI do too

Removing the computer from the Domain will invalidate cached passwords that you used to log into your machine but it should not remove any files. Fortunately you can log in as Administrator. As administrator, you should be able to restore your computer back to its previous state by performing a "System Restore" to a date/time before you removed it from the domain."How to restore Windows XP to a previous state" < http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306084 >However as administrator you should still be able to access the files on your system. Look in the directory: C:\Documents and Settings\DomainUserWhere you replace "DomainUser" with the username you used to log in as. If you have file permission problems, then try taking ownership of the files..."How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP" < http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421 >Since you no longer have access to the domain, it is safer to create a new local user, transfer ownership of the files to that user, and remain out of the domain.HTH, JW