Don't you think your brother-in-law will discover, figure out, and defeat that one as well? Or is the run key in the registry beyond the scope of his skills?
<DEARABBYREPLY> Is there any reason you and your brother-in-law can't just decide on a single password and both use it? Or are you and he engaged in some little sophomoric war using your mother's PC as a battlefield? The poor dear probably "can't find the icons on her desktop" because her memory is littered with trivia about how to walk through the minefield you and your brother-and-law have constructed for each other, as if the quirks of modern computing weren't enough to intimidate a beginner. </DEARABBYREPLY> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 4:54 PM Subject: RE: Password Protect Change Password > > How about creating a registry merge file that is the vnc > > branch with the > > correct password hash setting? Then all she would have to do is > > double-click on the merge file to reset the password. > > Not a bad idea, but this is a woman who can't find the icons on her desktop > sometimes. However there's nothing to say I couldn't add a regedit.exe > command to the Run key in the registry to automatically apply the merge file > when she logs on each time. Then to change it she'd just have to log off > and then back on and I believe she knows how to do that. > > Thanks for the idea, > Michael > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
