Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging in a mouse

Re:Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging ... by riversflow on Monday August 23, 2021 @08:28PM (#28283801)

Wow! What a trip down memory lane, I actually remember figuring this one out when I was.. dating myself here[1], about 7 years old, I really wanted to play my Thinking Things Collection 3.[2]

When I inevitably got caught I remember my dad let me have my own user, but put some sort of further time-restriction software on the PC, no idea what it was, but I figured out that if I timed Ctrl-Alt-Delete at just the right time during the start cycle, I could, if I worked fast enough, end the process before it locked me out of login. XD

Oh to be a 90s kid.

[1] to be fair though we didn't update Windows immediately on release and never had '98.

[2]https://www.myabandonware.com/game/thinkin-things-collection...

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Re:Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging ... by Agentlien on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @02:16PM (#28292801)

I remember our school administrator used to delete all our silly images we'd made with paint on the school PCs. We asked why but never got a good answer.

I figured out that putting a certain character in front of a file name made it not show up in explorer. So I did that to a folder in my home directory and put all my stuff there, accessing them from the command line instead. Never had them deleted, again.

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Re:Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging ... by ateng on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @07:15AM (#28287265)

My mother just unplug the keyboard and take it away. She underestimated my ability to navigate Windows 98 and play AoE I using only mouse...

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