hanspablo Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 I'm having trouble downloading files and my sister says it may be because it was a college laptop and it has administative locks on it. I dont know what to do about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 If it's a educational laptop, don't do any thing. Messing with stuff that belongs to schools is liable to get you (at the very least) kicked out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanspablo Posted May 21, 2007 Author Share Posted May 21, 2007 i bought it from the school, they no longer own it, they just didnt take any of their locks off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 i bought it from the school, they no longer own it, they just didnt take any of their locks off. In that case you probably want to UBUNTU!!!! :P But seriously, you probably want to install on OS that you control... even if that happens to ultimately controlled by Microsoft, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 i bought it from the school, they no longer own it, they just didnt take any of their locks off. Tried booting into safemode as administrator and removing them? If you don't have the password, you will have to use something like Cain(if its not fully patched, otherwise it will crash lsass.exe) to retreive it, or ophcrack live cd to recover the password. And that is only if its in a LM hash. Otherwise, I would just wipe it out and start over anyway, since you bought it from the college, it may have other things on there your not aware of, like spyware/rootkits, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 Just reinstall it with the OS of your choice. Takes less than an hour and its far less fucking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 They should've wiped it before selling it... ...but yeah, just reinstall the OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 Like they say. Wipe it. How can you trust that machine when clearly you're not aware of what's been done to it? Not doing so is like running a spyware detector for the first time, finding TONS of nasties, make the spyware detector clear it all off and now assume that all your problems are fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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