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LAS14

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17. This is fascinating. A few years ago I took hubby's laptop in to get it fixed.

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Fri Aug 14, 2020, 08:54 PM

Aug 2020

They needed to know his laptop or e-mail password and I remembered it wrong (turned out to be no capital at the beginning). They ran a program and had the password in less than a minute. Huh. So I guess programs like the ones mentioned here were what was used? His laptop was running Windows 7 at the time.

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how hard is it to bypass or hack an administrater's password? [View all] Kali Aug 2020 OP

Tell me your password and I'll tell you how hard it is. 5X Aug 2020 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author Kali Aug 2020 #2

I was kidding, now I have hacked your password. 5X Aug 2020 #4

hope you wrote it down Kali Aug 2020 #9

Mine is all numbers. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 LiberalArkie Aug 2020 #3

If this is your laptop then the best course is to re-install the OS. cayugafalls Aug 2020 #5

actually someone else's Kali Aug 2020 #10

Cool. cayugafalls Aug 2020 #13

well, I also need to remember what it was Kali Aug 2020 #14

Yea, remembering can be difficult. cayugafalls Aug 2020 #15

Kali, what is the issue? I'll try to help if I can DonaldsRump Aug 2020 #6

see my other replies Kali Aug 2020 #11

Not hard at all (from a security perspective), but some tech skill is handy. Make7 Aug 2020 #7

it just occurred to me that I might actually be able to use this on a couple of other laptops, Kali Aug 2020 #8

I'm sorry you're having to deal with that. Make7 Aug 2020 #16

Thank you and I apologize Kali Aug 2020 #18

This LuvLoogie Aug 2020 #12

This is fascinating. A few years ago I took hubby's laptop in to get it fixed. LAS14 Aug 2020 #17