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I just bought a Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop at an auction for items confiscated by the police. I need to change the original user ID and password so I thought the security forum might be the place to ask this question. During startup, it flashed the Windows screen so I know that it has Windows...

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My campus has its own wifi and it requires me to input not just password but also username (my username here would be my student ID number, while password is the password i use for my campus' website accounts), in my Win10 laptop it works just fine, but in my older Win8 laptop, it just won't let...

Ok so I know we have to be safe but really I'm on a desktop in my own home why do i need to enter a password every other keystroke I have just logged in password entry 1 I then open chrome and chrome needs me to login but wont autofill so I go to saved passwords password entry 2 (windows not...

Hi, After many attempts I still can't remove the start-up password from my laptop. Its a password with complex requirements (like AAAaaa1234@$%^#) that needs to be changed every 2 months. That's way too much trouble just for editing bird pictures on this old machine and annoying to use for...

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I have 2 gmail accounts. Today,one of them showed up in Russian. A long time ago, I had a similar problem, but that time it appeared to be Chinese. So I went ahead and changed passwords on both accounts as a precaution. I don't remember what I did for the Chinese situation, but perhaps the...

Hello On my PC, I can log in with a pin code or with a password. I would like to change that, so that I can just only log in with a password and not with a pin, because I dont think the pin save enough. But I cant change that in my options. How can I remove the pin code? Can you help me...

Hi all, When I was made redundant from my previous company they let me keep my laptop but did not remove the company admin rights before I left. I have spoken to them and they said they cannot help and I will need to sort this out myself. Does anyone know how to remove admin rights for free...

I cant seem to find the answer to this question (title) but a family member keeps messing with me ressetting my pc without using my password only from the lock screen. Is there any way to disable that option so the only way you can reset the PC is using a administrator password?? and is there...

Thats what i get when i click on forgot password on nordvpn , i emailed nord from my email add . It said a complaint had been raised , it used to answer me from here too . It won't now , I tried a live help on there complaints page that was no help they just said make it plainer . I try to...

I am having a problem with Gmail. I get the following message when i click on my mail icon: We couldn't access this account: Gmail. You might need to update your password or give account permission to sync to this device. Has anyone ever receive this type of message.? I already changed my...

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I've just recently changed my password to log into my account. I've used a password for a while and I changed it to a PIN via the security and 'hello' options . Now, each time I turn the PC on I'm greeted with a message saying that the profile can't be loaded. I then have the usual login...

For some reason without warning my Edge (latest version) picked up a menu label at the bottom on the “settings” panel; "Browser is managed by your organization" and the auto fill-in password scheme stopped. It took me awhile to look for the reason and to solve it, with a boat load of erroneous...

my phone and surface connect to the extended wifi network just fine, but my work laptop cannot...i tried to connect then the password field briefly appears then it suddenly says "cannot connect to network"....tried rebooting to no avail note that this is a work PC and therefore my admin rights...

while playing video files (after 1-2 sec) I am getting error "Suspicious activities detected, the player will exit" Type of files - Application(.exe) OS - Windows 10 Home