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That, Worms, and DOOM were all over the network in my high school. They kept trying to take them off the computers but we only had 1 computer teacher and 1 IT guy, and the kids knew how to hide them with that pathetic mid-90s security of Win9x machines. And, of course, they had some inside moles in the computer club, which I was one of 3 founding members.
I remember being able to install and play games on the computers by using a MS-DOS boot disk, bypassing all the safeguards they had on their hard drive.
I had to reset the password on a Win10 machine recently and found out they closed the loophole where you could boot with any live boot disc such as a Linux distro or the Win10 setup disc then rename the utilman.exe to something like utilman.bak then copy cmd.exe as utilman.exe and you could run command prompt from the login screen with system privileges so you could create a new admin user. That sucked but I found a boot disk that just wipes all user passwords. However, changing passwords this way loses the key for all encrypted files encrypted with the unknown/forgotten password.
Interesting.
Much easier in the mid 90s that's for sure. It has been so long, but I think I just used a 3.5" disk with an autoexec.bat and config.sys file, then the whole machine was mine.
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