Post by BuckSkin on Apr 23, 2021 5:31:02 GMT
My ill-advised mother bought a brand-new HP laptop with Windows 10.
She set it up with the same password that she has used on everything for years.
The password worked fine until three days ago when, for no reason other than Windows 10 contraryness, it refused to acknowledge her password and she could not access her new machine.
She brought it to me to resolve the issue.
It is unreal how many people have laptops that are useless to them because they can't get past the password screen; thus, I have a bootable password cracking program both on DVD and also USB stick; I have used both numerous times and until now have had 100% success in obliterating lost and unknown passwords.
Not so on this machine --- it has no DVD drive --- and, by design, will not allow Legacy boot, thus will not boot to USB; after fighting with it all night long, I finally learned that all Intel machines built since January 2020 will no longer support Legacy Boot.
I was about to lay it under the truck wheels and run back and forth over it; but, instead, I tried another tactic and managed to get past the password screen and then obliterate whatever corrupted password that Windows 10 had changed her's to.
I set her up with no password at all and set it to bypass the password screen and boot straight into Windows.
Before I handed it back over to her, I was going to install FastStone and Google Earth Pro --- a simple process that takes about two minutes on any sensible machine ----- not so on that W10 piece of junk; it informed me that the programs I was trying to install were not approved by the Microsoft App store and that I would have to download/install an "app" that would remove the "S" limitation and allow the programs to install.
I was running short on time and decided to deal with that headache at another time.
Is this refusal to allow programs to install common to all Windows 10 machines ?
She set it up with the same password that she has used on everything for years.
The password worked fine until three days ago when, for no reason other than Windows 10 contraryness, it refused to acknowledge her password and she could not access her new machine.
She brought it to me to resolve the issue.
It is unreal how many people have laptops that are useless to them because they can't get past the password screen; thus, I have a bootable password cracking program both on DVD and also USB stick; I have used both numerous times and until now have had 100% success in obliterating lost and unknown passwords.
Not so on this machine --- it has no DVD drive --- and, by design, will not allow Legacy boot, thus will not boot to USB; after fighting with it all night long, I finally learned that all Intel machines built since January 2020 will no longer support Legacy Boot.
I was about to lay it under the truck wheels and run back and forth over it; but, instead, I tried another tactic and managed to get past the password screen and then obliterate whatever corrupted password that Windows 10 had changed her's to.
I set her up with no password at all and set it to bypass the password screen and boot straight into Windows.
Before I handed it back over to her, I was going to install FastStone and Google Earth Pro --- a simple process that takes about two minutes on any sensible machine ----- not so on that W10 piece of junk; it informed me that the programs I was trying to install were not approved by the Microsoft App store and that I would have to download/install an "app" that would remove the "S" limitation and allow the programs to install.
I was running short on time and decided to deal with that headache at another time.
Is this refusal to allow programs to install common to all Windows 10 machines ?
