Scenario:

Ex-employee handed in his laptop computer when he left. Been in a storage cupboard for a couple of years. Now we want to use it for something else. We had Windows 7 password written down, but it doesn’t work.

Anyone know how to reset password on Win 7?
Can we just do a fresh install (we have the discs). Will that wipe everything?

Anyone in the know on these matters, any help would be extremly… helpful.

TIA.

party_pants said:

Scenario:

Ex-employee handed in his laptop computer when he left. Been in a storage cupboard for a couple of years. Now we want to use it for something else. We had Windows 7 password written down, but it doesn’t work.

Anyone know how to reset password on Win 7?
Can we just do a fresh install (we have the discs). Will that wipe everything?

Anyone in the know on these matters, any help would be extremly… helpful.

TIA.

Reinstalling clean will wipe everything……

Can you not contact the ex employee?

Reinstall. Make sure there aren’t any dead critters in it.

• Can you not contact the ex employee?

There was an incident…

Arts said:

Can you not contact the ex employee?

Not really. Don’t know where he is.

furious said:

• Can you not contact the ex employee?

There was an incident…

Wouldn’t there be an Administrator password which would all access?

I quickly googled this link

http://www.isunshare.com/windows-7-password/how-to-reset-windows-7-password-without-reset-disk.html

party_pants said:

Scenario:

Ex-employee handed in his laptop computer when he left. Been in a storage cupboard for a couple of years. Now we want to use it for something else. We had Windows 7 password written down, but it doesn’t work.

Anyone know how to reset password on Win 7?
Can we just do a fresh install (we have the discs). Will that wipe everything?

Anyone in the know on these matters, any help would be extremly… helpful.

TIA.

Not sure if it’ll work but there was a way with Win NT to crack the password, forgotten how to do it…My old man was most unimpressed with the security of his work laptop…

As an aside, I wandered past a computer kiosk in a shopping centre today, the kind that cost $2 for 20 minutes. One of the computers was rebooting; the OS was Win XP.

Divine Angel said:

As an aside, I wandered past a computer kiosk in a shopping centre today, the kind that cost $2 for 20 minutes. One of the computers was rebooting; the OS was Win XP.

XP isn’t a safe operating system to use anymore, they stop patching it a while ago now

Divine Angel said:

As an aside, I wandered past a computer kiosk in a shopping centre today, the kind that cost $2 for 20 minutes. One of the computers was rebooting; the OS was Win XP.

The best OS ever made.

Cymek said:

Divine Angel said:

As an aside, I wandered past a computer kiosk in a shopping centre today, the kind that cost $2 for 20 minutes. One of the computers was rebooting; the OS was Win XP.

XP isn’t a safe operating system to use anymore, they stop patching it a while ago now

The bad guys also stopped writing viruses for it ages ago.

Exactly my thoughts: a public computer, on which most people check their emails and Facebook, and the security is a bit dodgy. Now, unreliable and slow as well.

Divine Angel said:

Exactly my thoughts: a public computer, on which most people check their emails and Facebook, and the security is a bit dodgy. Now, unreliable and slow as well.

Waaaay better than 8 & 10.

Divine Angel said:

Exactly my thoughts: a public computer, on which most people check their emails and Facebook, and the security is a bit dodgy. Now, unreliable and slow as well.

Rather surprising that a business like that is still viable in this day & age.

Tamb said:

Cymek said:

Divine Angel said:

As an aside, I wandered past a computer kiosk in a shopping centre today, the kind that cost $2 for 20 minutes. One of the computers was rebooting; the OS was Win XP.

XP isn’t a safe operating system to use anymore, they stop patching it a while ago now

The bad guys also stopped writing viruses for it ages ago.

I think they still live in the wild though, it would be an interesting experiment to go onto the internet using a completely unpatched computer running XP and see how long before it gets infected

i run 10 and on the new puta boots up very quickly. just got to turn off all the crap that you’ll never use.

Divine Angel said:

Exactly my thoughts: a public computer, on which most people check their emails and Facebook, and the security is a bit dodgy. Now, unreliable and slow as well.

They don’t recommend using public terminals for anything sensitive, who knows whats installed on it

Now that there have been a few patches to Win 10, I quite like it. I don’t use all the features though, Cortana scares me.

Tamb said:

Divine Angel said:

Exactly my thoughts: a public computer, on which most people check their emails and Facebook, and the security is a bit dodgy. Now, unreliable and slow as well.

Waaaay better than 8 & 10.

Windows 7 is really good, 8 & 10 take away much of your control and add in lots of rubbish

cortana is one of the apps i turned off. really it is no different to other windows underneath.

Although I don’t like that you can’t turn off automatic updates. The stupid thing always wants to do an extensive update when I’m trying to write or research something important!

basically it is designed for the person who has lots of devices they want to communicate with each other. turn all that off and it’s fine.

Divine Angel said:

Now that there have been a few patches to Win 10, I quite like it. I don’t use all the features though, Cortana scares me.

I have 10 & have never used Cortana. Also I purchased my own copy of Office Home & student rather than use the “cloud” version.

I’m happy with 8, using Classic Shell. I assume I could do the same with 10.

Divine Angel said:

Although I don’t like that you can’t turn off automatic updates. The stupid thing always wants to do an extensive update when I’m trying to write or research something important!

Yeah that seems to annoy lots of people, the biggest problem is if a patch is dodgy and it crashes your computer before its been tested by others.

yes you can turn off auto updates by flipping the switch that says you are on a metered connection. i hadn’t done this until a few weeks ago and can see the difference in downloaded data.

JudgeMental said:

yes you can turn off auto updates by flipping the switch that says you are on a metered connection. i hadn’t done this until a few weeks ago and can see the difference in downloaded data.

Oh Ok that’s a good way to do it

Do you have the free version, Boris? I tried that and it keeps resetting to “default” wifi all the time.

thing is if you have unlimited why worry about data downloads? i get 12 gig and month so actually need to conserve data.

JudgeMental said:

thing is if you have unlimited why worry about data downloads? i get 12 gig and month so actually need to conserve data.

pr0nhub will give you hairy palms boris.

mine came with the new puta, i have the disk. the lappy i got from the free upgrade. maybe because you aren’t on a metered connection is why it resets.

don’t have time fo dat.

Divine Angel said:

Although I don’t like that you can’t turn off automatic updates. The stupid thing always wants to do an extensive update when I’m trying to write or research something important!

And they eat up my 4gb/month data allowance.

poikilotherm said:

pr0nhub will give you hairy palms boris.

Did you read pornhub are developing an app whereby subscribers can have sex to lose weight and post the results straight to their social media?

Divine Angel said:

poikilotherm said:

pr0nhub will give you hairy palms boris.

Did you read pornhub are developing an app whereby subscribers can have sex to lose weight and post the results straight to their social media?

I did not, in fact, I was under the distinct impression it was not a website developed for ‘reading’.

Ok, fresh re-install it is. Found all the discs that came with it.

JudgeMental said:

yes you can turn off auto updates by flipping the switch that says you are on a metered connection. i hadn’t done this until a few weeks ago and can see the difference in downloaded data.

I did that but it still downloads rubbish because it knows better than you what it thinks is important.

JudgeMental said:

thing is if you have unlimited why worry about data downloads? i get 12 gig and month so actually need to conserve data.

I only get 4

Tamb said:

JudgeMental said:

thing is if you have unlimited why worry about data downloads? i get 12 gig and month so actually need to conserve data.

I only get 4

Thats tiny, I get 900

“link“http://www.techly.com.au/2016/05/20/pornhub-have-released-a-fitness-program-and-yes-it-involves-mostly-banging/

Safe for work, promise.

Basically, the program is called BangFit. You choose your sexercise based on how many calories it will burn in 30 minutes and sync the results to social media. Because obviously your friends want to know…

dunno what yours downloads but i have reminders for security updats and win10 updates. might do them at the end of the month if i have data left. or when i go up to perth and take the lappy download them onto that then share with the desktop when i come home.

Cymek said:

Tamb said:

JudgeMental said:

thing is if you have unlimited why worry about data downloads? i get 12 gig and month so actually need to conserve data.

I only get 4

Thats tiny, I get 900

900/month?

virgin broadband usb modem 12 gigs for $39 a month. best deal for wireless.

Tamb said:

Cymek said:

Tamb said:

I only get 4

Thats tiny, I get 900

900/month?

Yes, I’ve never used it all up the most was about 400

JudgeMental said:

virgin broadband usb modem 12 gigs for $39 a month. best deal for wireless.

I’m forced to use Telstra so can’t get any of these good deals. Maybe when NBN arrives.

why are you forced to use telstra?

Cymek said:

Tamb said:

Cymek said:

Thats tiny, I get 900

900/month?

Yes, I’ve never used it all up the most was about 400

When my 4gb is used I go back to dialup speed but this forum still works at about the same speed unless someone posts a big image.

JudgeMental said:

why are you forced to use telstra?

Nothing else available wireless & the copper wires won’t carry high speed.

JudgeMental said:

why are you forced to use telstra?

Parents signed a pact with the devil

why nothing else wireless? we only have one tower in town and that services all carriers as far as i am aware. optus, voda, tlstra, virgin etc.

Yeah but tamb lives in Woop-Woop, Kweenzland.

Cymek said:

Divine Angel said:

As an aside, I wandered past a computer kiosk in a shopping centre today, the kind that cost $2 for 20 minutes. One of the computers was rebooting; the OS was Win XP.

XP isn’t a safe operating system to use anymore, they stop patching it a while ago now

it went on a killing rampage and gates had to pull the pin on it

wookiemeister said:

Cymek said:

Divine Angel said:

As an aside, I wandered past a computer kiosk in a shopping centre today, the kind that cost $2 for 20 minutes. One of the computers was rebooting; the OS was Win XP.

XP isn’t a safe operating system to use anymore, they stop patching it a while ago now

it went on a killing rampage and gates had to pull the pin on it

It gave a lot of people to have an experience.

Oh, I re-installed Windows 7 on it, from the disc. But now the wi-fi doesn’t work. It thinks there is no wi-fi installed.

Ideas?

drive issue perhaps?

party_pants said:

Oh, I re-installed Windows 7 on it, from the disc. But now the wi-fi doesn’t work. It thinks there is no wi-fi installed.

Ideas?

drive issue perhaps?

+r

• drive issue perhaps?

Perhaps…

I’ve only just seen this (been out for a couple of days), so may be too late, but for future reference, here’s how to reset a windows administrator password on any windows machine you’ve got physical access to:

• boot from a boot CD/DVD/USB stick, either into a windows rescue console with command prompt or into a live linux command prompt
• Find the drive with the windows installation you’ve lost the passwords to (C: for this example), and copy the file C:\windows\system32\sethc.exe to somewhere else (I just put it in C:\)
• copy the file C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe to C:\windows\system32\sethc.exe, confirming that you want to replace the destination file (sethc.exe) if prompted
• reboot the computer with the boot CD/DVD/USB stick removed (so it boots into the old system)
• When you see the login screen, press the SHIFT key five times, fairly rapidly. This will invoke a command shell with administrator privileges.
• in the command window, type net user Administrator <new password>, where <new password> is (obviously) the new password. If you want to change a different user’s password, use that user’s name instead of Administrator. For a list of users, just type net user
• close the command prompt, and log in as Administrator with the new password. Copy sethc.exe from wherever you saved it back to C:\windows\system32\sethc.exe confirming if prompted that you want to overwrite the old file.

I haven’t tried this in windows 10, but it works in all previous versions.