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Help, can someone possibly answer my question.
My laptop was stolen today I have a winxp user password, can someone find out what is is and logon?
This article may help
http://www.briansbuzz.com/w/030213/
friendly and helpful for better computing in all areas *smile*
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Heres some more reading!
http://sniptools.com/vault/lost-my-windows-xp-password-how-to-recover.htm
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I assume, since you said the laptop was stolen, you are concerned about someone accessing the data on the laptop. The answer is yes it can be done with the right tools. This is not the forum to discuss those tools but they do exist. Passwords slowdown access to an XP system but it is possible to get past them. Sorry.
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Thanks for your replies.
Yes Terii my concern was people being able to view my data. I've just got hope they're not too nosey & PC friendly.
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Hi,
Many of the windows files can be perused via knoppix i.e. exploring the computer from a cd based version of linux. Windows is asleep and its security is pretty much off.
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Sue,
Sorry to hear about your bad luck. In the future, if you buy another laptop, you may want to consider many of the available means of actually physically locking the machine so that it can't be accessed.
There are all different kinds, from combination locks to keyed locks, and they vary in price. There are also Motion Sensor Alarms that you can buy...kinda like a car alarm.. It's all a matter of how value your machine and data are to you.
Here's some good advice from Symantec:
http://www.symantec.com/smallbiz/library/ldl.html
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Sue,
If you're willing to spend a couple hundred dollars for the security of your laptop, Halliburton makes a laptop case. I don't think there's any way to break into those cases....They're made of airplane grade aluminum. :)
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Jenn Jenn there isnt anything that cant in some way be altered! Dont know a whole lot about laptop harddrives but a desktop pc harddrive could be pulled out and stuck in another computer as a slave drive and then browsed with windows explorer and see everything you have! Oh my curious mind wonders what you had on it!
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