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Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« on: Nov 21st, 2005, 6:41pm » |
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My X-wife pissed off our 16 year old son and he deleted all the other profiles on Windows XP except for his own.
Can I get passed it?? I am not my X Wifes BIGGEST FAN but she is in the middle of her Masters program and cant get to her school work. Any ideas?
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Your Brother N Pain
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Re: Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« Reply #1 on: Nov 21st, 2005, 6:47pm » |
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First thing I'd do is check the recycle bin and restore it if it is there.
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Re: Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« Reply #2 on: Nov 21st, 2005, 6:50pm » |
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Dude it wont even open windows without a password. I cant get to anything.
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Re: Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« Reply #3 on: Nov 21st, 2005, 6:51pm » |
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on Nov 21st, 2005, 6:47pm, TomM wrote:First thing I'd do is check the recycle bin and restore it if it is there.
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And then whack the kid in the mouth, well, thats what id do 
Edit to add:...can you get it started in safe mode?...you can restore from there I think
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It is up to YOU to educate yourself and then help your doctor plan your treatment. If you just sit down in front of your doctor and say "make me better" you are setting yourself up for a great deal of pain.
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Re: Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« Reply #4 on: Nov 21st, 2005, 7:00pm » |
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get in under his profile...
does he wish to see 17?
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Re: Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« Reply #5 on: Nov 21st, 2005, 7:07pm » |
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SAFE MODE is that F7 on boot?
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« Reply #6 on: Nov 21st, 2005, 7:21pm » |
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It's gone. Say a prayer.
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PS>I doubt system restore will work. If the administrator was properly put to the right person, he would not have been able to do this in the first place. Next time, if they must share a computer, make sure she is the administrator and he has a limited account.
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Re: Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« Reply #7 on: Nov 21st, 2005, 7:25pm » |
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on Nov 21st, 2005, 6:50pm, mynm156 wrote:| Dude it wont even open windows without a password. I cant get to anything. |
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Dam! He passworded the PC?
12V electrodes to the doo-dads should do it.
Beat it out of him...uhm...check that...try the electrode thing again.
If he deleted the profile and made sure it was gone from the recycle, he's gonna be one hurtin' kid b/c it's gone.
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« Reply #8 on: Nov 21st, 2005, 7:28pm » |
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If you have the system disc(s), you could reformat and kick him off ! But you still have lost all files. 
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Re: Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« Reply #9 on: Nov 21st, 2005, 7:31pm » |
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It is up to YOU to educate yourself and then help your doctor plan your treatment. If you just sit down in front of your doctor and say "make me better" you are setting yourself up for a great deal of pain.
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Re: Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« Reply #10 on: Nov 21st, 2005, 7:34pm » |
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Not sure if this works, but Im tryin, Bro
http://www.pctools.com/file-recover/?ref=google_fr
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Re: Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« Reply #11 on: Nov 21st, 2005, 7:34pm » |
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worse comes to worse, you can take out the hard drive and put it in a second computer as the D: drive and read from there....
all is not lost....
yet
are you telling us he refused to log in for you?
I'd be reaching for the taser
dude's cruisin' for a bruisin'!
You do feed, clothe, and shelter him don't you?
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Re: Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« Reply #12 on: Nov 21st, 2005, 8:05pm » |
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I'm no guru - hopefully one will come along soon.
First - there are some great disc recovery programs available for free on the web. Just Google it.
Second - if that doesn't work, get your puter to a puter expert who can most likely recover the lost files (which, believe it or not are probably still there).
Third - ground your teenaged son for the rest of his life, and deny him access to all computers until he can afford to buy one of his own. He can go to the library to do his surfing!
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Re: Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« Reply #14 on: Nov 21st, 2005, 11:44pm » |
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Solution, get Koppix The 3.9 ISO is on 1 CD. Then if he hasn't set a password on the BIOS ( if he did that can be fixed too), boot into Knoppix and see what you can find. If you find what you want you will need a USB hard drive formated to FAT32. Then you can copy the data to the hard drive. Alternately if you have a DVD-ROM and a CD-RW then you can boot Knoppix to the DVD and burn to CD what you find. If the data was really deleted and you booted windows then it is probably gone. If you had Norton recycle bin they they are probably still there.
If you can't do this then you can send the hard drive to a geek you know and they can put it in their box and check it out.
Either way do a do a clean install. it may have a root kit on it now, and use the security measures above.
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Re: Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« Reply #15 on: Nov 22nd, 2005, 12:17am » |
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I'd threaten the kid with deletion ! Dam that would piss me off..........hope you get your stuff back and he gets what he deserves !! Why not delete all his privileges for a year.......what a PUNK Pam 
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Re: Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« Reply #16 on: Nov 22nd, 2005, 7:35am » |
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Did the kid remove the user accounts, or delete the profile directories? Unless the kid was tryin' to be really malicious, I doubt he would've deleted the profile files, but then again, I don't know how psychotic the kid is. If i was the kid, I'd be holdin' the files for ransom.
This is the reason why you should set an administrator password in an XP system, and give the users limited accounts. But then again... M$ doesn't want ppl to have too much info about their 'puter, or else they wouldn't be able to blame the users for the piss poor security on Winblows.
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Re: Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« Reply #17 on: Nov 22nd, 2005, 9:14am » |
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Just for the hell of it, log in as administrator and don't use a password.
I don't know how many home computers I've seen with no password on the admin account.
If you get in as admin, check the recycle bin. If there's nothing there, poke around in windows explorer and see if he made a backup somewhere.
If worse comes to worse, give him a piece of paper and a pencil then grab him by the neck and tell him you'll loosen up when he starts writing the password.
If you were closer to the Chicago area, I'd tell you to just bring it to me and let me have a go at it. I have some other... ummm.... tools???... for fixing 'forgotten' passwords.
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Re: Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« Reply #18 on: Nov 22nd, 2005, 12:05pm » |
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Well he put the guest profile back on. He has set it so he is the admin. As long as My X can get to her school stuff I am cool with it.
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Re: Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« Reply #19 on: Nov 22nd, 2005, 12:58pm » |
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I bet he is key-logging everything, don't trust that computer with anything sensitive. just my 
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Re: Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« Reply #20 on: Nov 22nd, 2005, 1:11pm » |
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on Nov 22nd, 2005, 12:58pm, Opus wrote:I bet he is key-logging everything, don't trust that computer with anything sensitive. just my
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Very good point.
My opinion. Get control of system then take it away from bratty 16 year old.
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Re: Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« Reply #21 on: Nov 22nd, 2005, 2:49pm » |
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She needs to copy all of her files now. Copy them to a USB drive or burn them to a CD or the like.
Then wipe the system clean... put in the XP disk and start from scratch.
Set yourself up as administrator.
Set up an weak account for him... call it 'littlefaggot' or something like that. Install 'NetNanny' under his account so that he cannot get to his wanking sites.
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« Reply #22 on: Nov 22nd, 2005, 3:37pm » |
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on Nov 22nd, 2005, 12:05pm, mynm156 wrote:| Well he put the guest profile back on. |
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And her files were still on there ?
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Re: Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« Reply #23 on: Nov 22nd, 2005, 4:16pm » |
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on Nov 22nd, 2005, 2:49pm, Rock_Lobster wrote:She needs to copy all of her files now. Copy them to a USB drive or burn them to a CD or the like.
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rock is right.
if her work is her life, she needs to protect herself.
frankly, I'd make two copies and put one somewhere remote and safe... like a safety deposit box or at gramma's house or somewhere....
be prepared.
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Re: Hey Computer geeks/GODS
« Reply #24 on: Nov 23rd, 2005, 2:30am » |
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on Nov 22nd, 2005, 2:49pm, Rock_Lobster wrote:She needs to copy all of her files now. Copy them to a USB drive or burn them to a CD or the like.
Then wipe the system clean... put in the XP disk and start from scratch.
Set yourself up as administrator.
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YOU are the parent, not your son. You are the admin. He is the user. littlefaggot sounds perfect. Or mommy'sboy. Take control of the machine, and make the passwords secure, and don't write them down.
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