Establishing a PW

[Bruce]

I've been running Windows MCE for a year with only an administrator
account, non-passworded. In other words, I boot the pc, and I'm in. I
can't remember if there's a guest account, but I'll look and see.

I've found it necessary to prohibit use by anyone but myself, for a
period of time, possibly a year or so. I don't mean establishing
different user accounts, I mean I don't want anyone else on the pc at
all.

If I password the administrator account, is it possible to remove the
password at some time in the future, so that I can later just boot and be
in?

If there's a guest account on there now, what should I do? I seem to
remember that I can delete guest accounts.

Thanks.

 

[VanguardLH]

I've been running Windows MCE for a year with only an administrator
account, non-passworded. In other words, I boot the pc, and I'm in.
I
can't remember if there's a guest account, but I'll look and see.

I've found it necessary to prohibit use by anyone but myself, for a
period of time, possibly a year or so. I don't mean establishing
different user accounts, I mean I don't want anyone else on the pc
at
all.

If I password the administrator account, is it possible to remove
the
password at some time in the future, so that I can later just boot
and be
in?

If there's a guest account on there now, what should I do? I seem
to
remember that I can delete guest accounts.

As long as you remember a year from now what was the non-blank
password then, yes, you can revert to a preset login on bootup of
Windows. Use TweakUI to setup the auto-logon.

Because it will be a year, and because you'll want a strong password
that no one can guess, then either figure out an algorithm for all
passwords which makes them different by host or site but is an easy
algorithm to remember, or write it down and lock it up.
Alternatively, you can create a password reset floppy in case you
forget your password (and lock it up else anyone could use it just
like you could).

Disable the guest account. Only admins can reenable it. Presumably
you only have Administrator and your own account under the
Administrators group. I already have mine disabled and it's been that
way for probably 19 months now.

 

[Demmpa]

VanguardLH skrev:

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As long as you remember a year from now what was the non-blank password
then, yes, you can revert to a preset login on bootup of Windows. Use
TweakUI to setup the auto-logon.

Because it will be a year, and because you'll want a strong password
that no one can guess, then either figure out an algorithm for all
passwords which makes them different by host or site but is an easy
algorithm to remember, or write it down and lock it up. Alternatively,
you can create a password reset floppy in case you forget your password
(and lock it up else anyone could use it just like you could).

Disable the guest account. Only admins can reenable it. Presumably you
only have Administrator and your own account under the Administrators
group. I already have mine disabled and it's been that way for probably
19 months now.

If you forgot the password you can use ie this site
to reset every (windows-login)password:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

AND every people who has psychical access to the computer
can use the program on that site.

To stop everyone to use the computer is ie
take away the HDD from the computer, there is HDD-cassette
to use, you put in the HDD-cassette when you want to use the
computer and take it away when you leave the computer.