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some1 hacked into my labtop and made theirselves administrat

Sep 11, 2011 6:03AM PDT

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Without knowing if this is Windows or not.
Sep 11, 2011 6:37AM PDT

No hack is required for me to do this on almost all machines.

I either boot safe mode or like most folk they leave the machine logged in or set an autologin and I'm able to make my new account admin in under 60 seconds.

Let's say you can't log in as administrator? Why not use NTPASSWD to reset the password and get in?
Bob

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I have windows 7 32bit Satellite L455-s5975 labtop
Sep 11, 2011 6:55AM PDT
honestly i think my roomate remotely logged into my computer and reset himself as my labtops administrator and now i cant even change any important settings like turning on my firewall and i have limited access to my settings. I have been able to see this on event logger sometimes. I don't know what to do.
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Unlikely.
Sep 11, 2011 9:20AM PDT

Current versions of Windows don't allow that. I'd have to get on the PC to set that up.

You do realize you could disable the Remote Desktop Service?
Bob

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Re: what to do
Sep 11, 2011 6:30PM PDT

Bob already told you. Download NTPASSWD, burn it to CD, boot from it, reset that password and you're in again. Then start protecting it.

Kees