nineninenine@lemmy.world to 2000snostalgia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoI used WinXP for an embarrassingly long time.lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up120arrow-down1external-linkI used WinXP for an embarrassingly long time.lemmy.worldnineninenine@lemmy.world to 2000snostalgia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoHeh. User with password. That didn’t matter so much on XP. It was remarkably easy to erase or reset a password on WinXP.
minus-square567PrimeMover@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoI believe chntpw still works on Win11 even! I know I’ve used it on windows 10 to great effect
minus-squaredeadcream@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoYou can easily do this on Linux too if you have physical access to the hard drive and it isn’t encrypted (which is default on most distros).
Heh. User with password. That didn’t matter so much on XP. It was remarkably easy to erase or reset a password on WinXP.
I believe chntpw still works on Win11 even! I know I’ve used it on windows 10 to great effect
You can easily do this on Linux too if you have physical access to the hard drive and it isn’t encrypted (which is default on most distros).