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Comment by Robert van Ruyssevelt on Forgot Your Windows 10 or 11 Password? Here's the Solution (June 3, 2023 09:46 PM)
I find microsoft a right pain. It keeps trying to make me use features like Bing and other things I don't want to use. It has now locked me out of my ...
Comment by chris on Forgot Your Windows 10 or 11 Password? Here's the Solution (June 2, 2023 03:00 PM)
Maybe I am missing something. Instead of going through all of this, can't you just write down your passwords? I have a Rolodex with all of my account...
Comment by Neil McPherson on Forgot Your Windows 10 or 11 Password? Here's the Solution (June 1, 2023 11:15 PM)
Hi Bob, Your instructions to creat a password recovery disk above did not work for me. There was nowhere in 'User Accounts' to do this. The instructi...
Comment by Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. on Forgot Your Windows 10 or 11 Password? Here's the Solution (June 1, 2023 11:04 PM)
There is one more way to make sure you never lose access to your local account. I have a desktop PC and three laptops. One of the laptops is my primar...
Comment by Hill on Forgot Your Windows 10 or 11 Password? Here's the Solution (June 1, 2023 09:50 PM)
I think that if your disk is encrypted, and you kick off your password with one of these tricks and then log in without the password, your disk doesn'...
Comment by DaveM on Forgot Your Windows 10 or 11 Password? Here's the Solution (June 1, 2023 09:19 PM)
All great information (as usual). But important to note that none of this applies if you sign into Windows with a PIN - a completely different beast t...
Comment by Cold City on Forgot Your Windows 10 or 11 Password? Here's the Solution (June 1, 2023 07:35 PM)
Thanks to the openness of Microsoft compared to Apple you can get around. A friend of mine inherited an iPad but the first owner was dying of a diseas...
Comment by BillP on How to Erase Your Hard Drive - Going Nuclear? (June 1, 2023 05:45 AM)
To Steve and Ernie: After the drive is wiped, download Windows from Microsoft, and install it. It will automatically activate, once the computer is co...
Comment by Thomas on Review: PC Matic Gets a Zero! (May 31, 2023 04:37 PM)
I used PC Matic for a year or so. This month, I switched due to PC Matic's handling of software installations. Their White List must be really short a...
Comment by Frank on How to Erase Your Hard Drive - Going Nuclear? (May 31, 2023 12:29 AM)
I have always done as Bob suggested in the last section.. I have disassembled the drive and taken each platter and drilled a few holes in them. They...
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