Windows beef
Many of you have heard about Windows OS's security weaknesses, mainly from the internet. Microsoft has been getting better on that front, however one thing I resently came across somehow didn't suprise me, as other OS's can do it as well, but not with the ease in which I did it in windows.
I forgot my desktop's password. The desktop uses XP Home edition, at no time during the setup process does it ask for an administrator password. As such, to erase my user password all I had to do was login to the unprotected Administrator account, go to the user accounts control panel, select my account, and hit Reset Account Passwords. That was it. MS was a bit smarter with my MCE installer, it did ask for a password for the admin account.
Even though It normally won't ask for a password, you should still set a password for the Admin account.
posted by the_sidewinder @ 11:07 AM
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im not sure about Home, but you cant logon to admin unless you go into failsafe, the "windowsbutton, windowsbutton" thing dont work on home.
The PRO version asks for a admin password, but i have a CD that i premade with all patches, default settings for everything incl. cd-key. so i just pop that in and there we go.
Otoh, if your files are encrypted in windows, you cant open them unless you got the password, that is a pain. But most people dont encrypt the files they got and thats both good and bad.
but you should be happy that you managed to get back into windows, not fun beeing locked out from your own stuff :) I mainly use my password in XP to keep dirty fingers away from it, if someone wants inside of the comp they will, either i have a password or not. Same goes for linux/unix.
ehm, i failed to be clear.
In windows XP Pro you can press the windowsbutton twice to get the "textinput" where you can enter adminstrator / password (Admin is normaly hidden from the welcome screen on XP).
what i DO hate with HOME is that you dont have avanced foldersettings (folder access rights etc) unless you go into Failsafe mode, can be a pain if you got a removable device that has NTFS and (for some reason) got permissions that dont alow the users on that particular computer inside.
Sorry if I spam you :)
:)
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