Re: Administrative Password Security

That is not true unless you are talking about an installation of XP Home
that has a blank password for the built in administrator account that can
only be accessed in Safe Mode in XP Home. More importantly is that passwords
only provide security when booting into the operating system. Beyond that
data that is not properly encrypted can be available to anyone that gains
physical access to the computer and is true for any operating system.

Steve


"Peggy" <Peggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:343497E5-1F7C-471E-8D14-E3401513ADA3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I recently learned that you can reset an administrative password on your
computer by starting it in safe mode. If it's this easy to go around a
password- what's the point? Is there something I don't know?


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