(Right, this can be a rolling thread for the various techie troubles normal people are always going to encounter. There's usually a thread or two on them at any one time in World, and it not only does it makes the place look boring, it also makes the answers harder to track down at a later date.)
I bought a Dell laptop from Tesco a couple of weeks ago, and so far it's been great. But last night I shut it down, went out for a couple of hours, and when I started it up again on my return it wouldn't recognise my password. I've closed and restarted it any number of times, but the problem remains.
How is this humanly possible? The password prompt fits the password I used, there was no caps lock on, and I've not tried to change the password at any time. Mine is the only account on it, and it's not networked or anything. There's a "reset your password" option which tells you can't reset your password unless you insert a zip drive or similar; so I inserted a zip drive and it told me it wasn't a special "reset your password" type of zip drive - basically, you have to plan to forget your password, or else you're fucked.
The only logical possibility I can think of is that I didn't shut it down properly and one of my flatmates came into my room and maliciously reset it in my absence. But that's the kind of possibility that only sounds logical to a paranoiac madman, and I'm not quite one of those.
I bought a Dell laptop from Tesco a couple of weeks ago, and so far it's been great. But last night I shut it down, went out for a couple of hours, and when I started it up again on my return it wouldn't recognise my password. I've closed and restarted it any number of times, but the problem remains.
How is this humanly possible? The password prompt fits the password I used, there was no caps lock on, and I've not tried to change the password at any time. Mine is the only account on it, and it's not networked or anything. There's a "reset your password" option which tells you can't reset your password unless you insert a zip drive or similar; so I inserted a zip drive and it told me it wasn't a special "reset your password" type of zip drive - basically, you have to plan to forget your password, or else you're fucked.
The only logical possibility I can think of is that I didn't shut it down properly and one of my flatmates came into my room and maliciously reset it in my absence. But that's the kind of possibility that only sounds logical to a paranoiac madman, and I'm not quite one of those.
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