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hi i've a laptop, it's window vista and i've set up a user account which is password protected.
today i lent my laptop to a friend and my friend removed the user account password without letting me know. i didn't even tell my friend what the password was, in fact. i only found out that my friend had removed the password when i switched on my laptop earlier on and realised that it didn't ask for my password at the start. i was quite pissed off and questioned my friend about it, to which my friend said "haha! remove only what. you should be glad that i didn't change the password lor!"
anyone has any idea how my friend had managed to remove my pass word and how do i prevent the user account password from being changed by others so easily? thanks a lot!
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Originally posted by onigiri:
hi i've a laptop, it's window vista and i've set up a user account which is password protected.
today i lent my laptop to a friend and my friend removed the user account password without letting me know. i didn't even tell my friend what the password was, in fact. i only found out that my friend had removed the password when i switched on my laptop earlier on and realised that it didn't ask for my password at the start. i was quite pissed off and questioned my friend about it, to which my friend said "haha! remove only what. you should be glad that i didn't change the password lor!"
anyone has any idea how my friend had managed to remove my pass word and how do i prevent the user account password from being changed by others so easily? thanks a lot!
u got on Guest Account?
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Originally posted by lifelikedrama:
Were the screws on your laptop meddled with? I think it has to something to do with the battery on the motherboard
nope. i think my friend used some programme. just wanted to know if there's anything i can do to prevent these programmes from removing the password?
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You will have to click the Start sphere, then enter "cmd" in the search box. In the Command Prompt window write "control userpasswords2" and hit enter.
Windows Vista will now ask you to elevate the privileges of the process so do it and you will be face to face with a window for User Accounts. Toward the top you will be able to see the option "Users must enter a username and password to use this computer." Check the option.Edited by GIB 04 Oct `08, 12:32AM
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Originally posted by GIB:
You will have to click the Start sphere, then enter "cmd" in the search box. In the Command Prompt window write "control userpasswords2" and hit enter.
Windows Vista will now ask you to elevate the privileges of the process so do it and you will be face to face with a window for User Accounts. Toward the top you will be able to see the option "users must enter a username and password to use this computer." Select the account you wish to alter and then check the option.actually i think my friend used the command prompt window to remove the password leh... hm anyway the situation is like this, i keyed in the user account password into the laptop. while in my user account, i lent my friend my laptop and my friend did something to it and removed the password. as long as my friend is in my user account already (since im the one that keyed in the password to let him into my account), he can just changed/removed the user account password easily. so can this method really prevent him from doing so? erm, i hope im making sense here. oops.
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Originally posted by onigiri:
actually i think my friend used the command prompt window to remove the password leh... hm anyway the situation is like this, i keyed in the user account password into the laptop. while in my user account, i lent my friend my laptop and my friend did something to it and removed the password. as long as my friend is in my user account already (since im the one that keyed in the password to let him into my account), he can just changed/removed the user account password easily. so can this method really prevent him from doing so? erm, i hope im making sense here. oops.
No, I was just showing u how to restore your password. If you are worried, then change your admin password and don't let your friend know. Create a separate login for him that is non-admin.
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Originally posted by onigiri:
hi i've a laptop, it's window vista and i've set up a user account which is password protected.
today i lent my laptop to a friend and my friend removed the user account password without letting me know. i didn't even tell my friend what the password was, in fact. i only found out that my friend had removed the password when i switched on my laptop earlier on and realised that it didn't ask for my password at the start. i was quite pissed off and questioned my friend about it, to which my friend said "haha! remove only what. you should be glad that i didn't change the password lor!"
anyone has any idea how my friend had managed to remove my pass word and how do i prevent the user account password from being changed by others so easily? thanks a lot!
ur friend hor.. sigh..
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