My Mum is employed by the council to run a Credit Union in Sandwell. They provide her with an IT budget, so she can purchase laptops and desktop computers. When the laptops finally came through they were set up with Windows XP along with administrator accounts and passwords. Great security has been thought of and implemented. Implemented so well that they didn't tell my mother the password. I can't quite remember why my Mum didn't call the IT support the council were charging her for, maybe it was a Saturday and the laptops were needed the next day, but I was called in to help.

Cue Penguin beating.

Using an application called Offline NT Password and Registry Editor, I was quickly and easily able to set the password to blank and log into the laptop.

This was my Mum's first introduction to Linux, needless to say she was impressed.

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