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80 Chapter 7 • Living with Passwords
Several years ago, I was traveling for work and purchased a new notebook
computer.That night I sat in my hotel room, installed Windows, and set a
very strong administrator password. I then created a power user account that I
could use daily. While traveling again about a year later, I happened to be in
that very same city and at the very same hotel. I had a problem with my
laptop and needed to log in to the administrator account to fix it.
I then realized that I had not used that password the entire year and could
not remember what I had set. I did not have that password recorded and
faced a big pr ...