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    • this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      early win98 and i think even into second edition you could just click the close window x button on the login window and it would just dump you onto the desktop. my parents thought adding a password would stop late night gaming… nope worked till i got discovered one fateful nigbt and i was grounded till i revealed how i found out what the password was.

      was eye opening for my father who then started just taking the power cords off the monitor and psu.

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      1 year ago

      All the login prompt did back then was let users save user specific settings. Your best bet back then was a BIOS password.