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Hi all, I am new here. I know NOTHING about hacking but need some advice and I bet someone reading this post can help me. I am a public school high school teacher (translation...limited funds).
Two years ago, my district issued me a USED laptop and within a few days it was dropped by one of the students....did I mention I teach ED special education? Well, IT said it wasn't worth repairing and they couldn't replace. So, for the past 2 years I have only had access to my desk top.
Well, this summer our district collected all broken computers for recycling. While I was dropping my broken computer off, I saw another laptop which looked pretty decent. It was old but very clean. The worker (not district employee) said I could take it to see if it worked, and it does!! I ran Diagnostics and it passed all tests. Everything works! It is a Dell Latitude D 600 - Model PPO5L, running XP Professional with Pentium M...don't laugh....but I am thrilled!
Problem, I am unable to log on. The normal sequence for logging on is C + Alt + Del. Then I enter my user name and password. On the 3rd line I need to designate 'district'. After I enter my info, a message pops up which states the 'domain is not available'. I have tried the other 3rd line choices and none work. I am assuming that this particular computer was taken off the server.
Here is my predicament, if I ask IT to connect my 'new' computer to server, they will say no, take it away and not let me keep it because 'it is too old and can't be maintained'.

So, here is where I need the help.....is there any way I can reconfigure this computer so I can actually use this laptop in my classroom?

Thank you