February 27, 2009

ANNOYING

OK, so I love my husband a little less right now.

I need something on his laptop. It is turned off. It is password protected.

I figured I could guess it. My husband is the only person in the world who could know my password based on the prompt question, but he would know it instantly.

My husband's prompt question is absurd. I have no idea what the answer is.

I can't get into his computer until he gets home.

Posted by Sarah at February 27, 2009 09:24 AM | TrackBack
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I always find it infinitely more frustrating when they are away & unavailable for phone calls...b/c it's a lot less annoying when I can call & say, "GRRRRR..." immediately. :)

Posted by: Guard Wife at February 27, 2009 09:41 AM

Sarah,

Go to distrowatch.com.
Download puppy linux.
Burn the iso file to a cd.
Place the cd into the laptop & close cd drive.
Reboot from the cd.
Select appropriate mouse/touchpad at question.
Select 800x600 at screen resolution.
When the screen comes up use the Mount icon to
access the hard drive of the laptop & a thumbdrive.
A filemanager automatically starts when the drive is mounted.
Copy whatever you needed to a thumbdrive.
Umount both the thumbdrive & hard drive.
Remove thumbdrive & cd
Shutdown the laptop.
Copy from thumbdrive to your laptop.

Done.

Sine Nomine

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