Password protection.

[Doug Gibb]

Hi,
My late father ( also doug gibb) passed this year. I know his windows 8 computer holds many family photos and such.
Access to his pc would be lovely.
I recall he had a 4 digit pin to log on, I entered it many times on his behalf but now cannot recall it.
Can I circumvent my late fathers pin code?

 

[Barman58]

If all else fails the photographs should not be encrypted and so could be accessed from another system if you removed the Hard drive and mounted it in a USB caddy

There are around 10000 possible 4 digit options for the PIN but as the decoding is performed in the actual system it is quite secure.

The weakest part of the 4 digit PIN as it's also used in Banking is that people do not like difficult numbers so tend to use a small subset of codes
some light reading to give a background ...

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[Teeotsa]

Maybe give "old method" a try? Replace sethc with cmd?

Link for tutorial is here!