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Is it possible to remove the administrator's password on an XP machine?
There is no option/link in user settings as there is for standard users.
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My father's computer has Windows XP, but when I try to install the service packs it always fails. What gives?
Here are the errors that I get in the event log:
Date: 2/6/2010
Time: 12:02:18 AM
Type: Error
User: N/A
Computer: EVO
Source: Windows Update Agent
Category: Installation
Event ID: 20
Installation…
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I have a situation that I need help with. I backed up my Files on Windows XP using the System BackUp utility/wizard, and then Installed a new operating system on the machine. Now I want to restore my old files via the .bak file but it is not being recognized at all. Did I do this wrong or is there…
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The First time I tried to install Ubuntu the installer installed it on my D drive. This resulted in only booting to Windows XP with no access to Ubuntu. I had to download a disk partitioning program to undo all of this. A tip from the Internet said to create a partition on the C drive for Ubuntu,…
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Hello,
The Current Situation
I have a hard drive that currently is split up like so:
Primary Partition
C: 9.77 GB NTFS Healthy (System) with XP Pro (in Polish) installed
Extended Partition
D: 39.82 GB NTFS Healthy (Boot) with XP Pro (in English) installed
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I have two machines - Windows XP and a laptop using Windows 7. I connected them with a WLAN cable.
On the Windows XP machine, I set the IP address to 192.168.0.10.
On the Windows 7 laptop, I set the IP address to 192.168.0.20.
The laptop can see the Windows XP machine, but Windows XP machine cannot…
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I recently upgraded an ubuntu server with many users to a recent version from a version from 2008. The server used to use md5 password hashes (e.g., the shadow passwords began with $1$) and now is configured to use sha512.
I'd prefer to keep using sha512, but would like the old users to be able…
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Whenever I need new passwords I use some tools to generate those, preferable memorable passwords, but I've been wondering how secure this might actually be.
Using The xkcd random number generator is probably pretty bad, cat /dev/random is probably pretty good, but generating memorable passwords seems…
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There has been much news about the hack of the Gawker web sites. There has even been an analysis of the common passwords found.
This list is embarrassing in many ways. The most common password was "123456". The second most common password was "password".
Much has also been written providing…
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The microblogging site has reset some Twitter users' passwords after a phishing attack attempted to steal their login information.
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The microblogging site has reset some Twitter users' passwords after a phishing attack attempted to steal their login information.
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