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  • behindthesailboats@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Right, So I actually did something similar. On some version of windows I noticed that ctrl-backspace was adding another character to the password, instead of deleting it. So I included it in my password. Then I updated to a new version of windows and got locked out since they updated the password backend to where it would actually delete the password instead of a adding the character, so I had no way of typing out my password. Ended up just nuking the computer.

    • x4740N@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Could have just researched what character was being inserted by the ctrl backspace and then used the keyboard to insert the character from its ascii or unicode code to login and then changed your password before nuking your computer

      • this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml
        0·
        1 year ago

        early win98 and i think even into second edition you could just click the close window x button on the login window and it would just dump you onto the desktop. my parents thought adding a password would stop late night gaming… nope worked till i got discovered one fateful nigbt and i was grounded till i revealed how i found out what the password was.

        was eye opening for my father who then started just taking the power cords off the monitor and psu.

  • Neato@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    Is this anything that a simple admin password reset wouldn’t fix? It’s not like admins can see your passwords anyways. (if the system is even remotely competent)