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re: Reset Logon Password Requirement
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 6:49 am
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Posted by Lakeman (120 messages posted)


gewg: Thanks for the reference page. That is beyond my computer expertise, thus I will not attempt to secure my Windows 98 computer via those instructions.


On Monday, September 24, 2007 at 11:33 pm, gewg_ wrote:
>Lakeman wrote:
>||In the registry I recently set[...AutoAdminLogon...]
>||but I am still able to log on without a password
>
>Broni wrote:
>|[http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000131.htm]
>
>Useless rubbish. From that page: "Finally, it is important to realize
>that enabling the Windows 95, 98, and ME passwords
>does not offer the local Windows computer any real security
>and should not be used as a way to keep a user out of the computer."
>
>Pretty sure that's not what the OP wants.
>
>This is slightly better:
>http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1186790880
>
>(Windoze--especially DOS-based Windoze--has easily-defeated permissions.
>If you want REAL security get something Unix-based.)


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re: Reset Logon Password Requirement (gewg_: Monday, September 24, 2007 at 11:33 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Reset Logon Password Requirement (Lakeman: Mon, Sep 24, 2007, 5:21 pm)
-re: Reset Logon Password Requirement (Broni: Mon, Sep 24, 2007, 8:53 pm)
-re: Reset Logon Password Requirement (gewg_: Mon, Sep 24, 2007, 11:33 pm)
*re: Reset Logon Password Requirement (Lakeman: Tue, Sep 25, 2007, 6:49 am)
*re: Reset Logon Password Requirement (Lakeman: Tue, Sep 25, 2007, 6:36 am)
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