Thanks for the suggestions! Re TAILS, I've tried it with legacy boot enabled. No luck from the USB. There seems to be issues with certain models. It does work from DVD though. I did try with TAILS installer, but the result was the same. Perhaps a manual install will do the job?
Re the Windows password, I download Ophcrack (the second try gave me a valid image) and was able to boot from that, then found that I had to download huge files with which to attack the passwords. Since I don't have two or three months to wait for the torrent, I looked around until I found a video that showed me how to trick Windows into presenting a console on the login screen, from which I could reset the password. After that, I could not log on with the user profile, but could in safe mode. I'll work on the profile issue tonight, when I get home. The trick I employed requires pretty much any Linux live distribution, or, in my case, a Linux distro on another partition. I found certain files in the Windows/System32/config folder, did a backup of them, renamed them to get a console from an icon on the login screen and then entered a command to reset the user's password to whatever I wanted. A good reminder of why BIOS passwords exist. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0U2SmUo8zA _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
