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Forgotten password on old laptop. Help

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CNe7532294:
Unless you encrypted your HDD or SSD (most people even some businesses don't even do this!) you can just simply swap your drive to another computer via USB or SATA slave and recover your files and programs. I scared my boss at a small business when I could easily recover patient files/test results no problem. As for booting without a password someone mentioned that up above.

sokoloff:

--- Quote from: theleakydiode on February 16, 2018, 09:17:25 pm ---How does shit like this get past quality control? Think MS knew about it at launch?

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:-// If your drive isn't encrypted and you spot an attacker physical control over the machine, it's game over for any OS...
This isn't (just) a Windows thing.

Terry01:
It was pretty easy to follow and worked 1st time no problems.

Everything on the machine must be well out of date as it keeps saying "certificates are out of date" or "not trusted" for things like google and sites that are clearly ok.
I haven't worked out how to get around this yet but I will. I've just been making an "exception" and it's been working fine. I'm well chuffed it's going again!  :-+

RayRay:
That is likely due to improper date/time settings!
Make sure they're set correctly.

Cyberdragon:

--- Quote from: RayRay on February 16, 2018, 11:08:02 pm ---That is likely due to improper date/time settings!
Make sure they're set correctly.

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Yep, chrome [insert browser here] is stupid like that...

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