My laptop was stolen a couple of months ago and I was wondering if I could retrieve that pc account and access my old documents with my new laptop? (Both laptops are: Dell, Windows 8)
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- windows 8
- Computer type
- Laptop
the account you can. when you set it up you can choose to use an existing account, then use same credentials. If they were changed you should be able to recover the new pass with forgot password stuff. For the documents... the only way would be to access the old laptop or if they were stored in the cloud or other online back up...
If you stored your documents only on your laptop and then lost it then they are lost. It is possible (if you want) to save documents using OneDrive or Dropbox so when you lose your laptop you can get them back as they are replicated to Microsoft (or Dropbox or whoever) servers. If you didn't do this then you can't - simple as that. If your documents were only on your laptop and you lost it is the same as losing a hat or umbrella or something.
Unfortunately whoever found your laptop CAN see your documents unless you encrypted them in some way. Depending what documents you had (like private data) you may want to consider if that is a problem for you.
Sorry