Why do you need accounts in windows?

Question

Microsoft

Because they do not protect data even from a lamer like me. I forgot the password from the old computer with Windows XP, started from safe mode and that's it. Or, as an option, you can use any distribution kit that boots from a USB flash drive. That's how I came to visit a friend, inserted a USB flash drive, booted from it and copied from the disk what you need, then you'll look at home.

Answer 1

Why do you need accounts in windows?

To distinguish between users, of course.

For they do not protect data even from a lamer like me

And where did you get the idea that they should protect from something?

Answer 2

That's how I came to visit a friend, inserted a USB flash drive, booted from it and copied from the disk what you need, then you'll look at home.

So you can turn on encryption and this trick will not work anymore
, and yes, as already written above, accounts are needed to ensure the work of several users on one computer

Answer 3

I forgot the password from the old computer with Windows XP, started from safe mode and that's it.

As already said, whoever has physical access is the owner of the machine. It has always been so. This means that rights differentiation will only work when the OS is running and only through legitimate channels that the OS is able to control. For example, when accessing over the network, or when accessing in console mode, i.e. using the keyboard and monitor. The OS cannot guarantee that, having access to the hardware, you will not insert some magical piece of hardware that reads RAM or something like that.
Meet EFS , BitLocker . Both allow you to protect data from unauthorized reading by people who have received physical access to a computer and storage media (for example, they stole and pulled out a disk).
And yes, separating user data is not the same as protecting them. In Win 98/ME there were no restrictions at the file system level at all, and the "password" was just a formality - so that user settings could be differentiated, as well as the contents of a user profile. In those days, there really was no protection, even within the operating system itself.

Answer 4

This is for those who are protected.
Heck, you can do the same for me.

Answer 5

You are saying the obvious. By the way, the same Microsoft formulated the rule -
Basically, accounts perform the following functions:
Differentiation of rights
Creation of own environment (progress of games, own folders, etc.)
And that's it...
Seems not enough? The second feature is so global... 90% of apps link YOUR data to YOU. Registry. Browsers (passwords in them). Games... the list is endless!
Do you want all this to "fall out" without any flash drives?

Answer 6

lamers do not know about safe mode, especially about booting from a USB flash drive, and you can store many accounts on your computer to distribute something

Answer 7

Imagine how you come to the bank, insert a flash drive into the cashier's computer and boot from it. Do you think it will work?
You forgot your password, but there is a user on your computer - Administrator with a blank password, so you were so easily let into safe mode as an administrator.
Of course, credentials do not save you from booting the OS from another medium, and this is normal. For such things, there are administrative measures - a password for the BIOS, a lock on the system unit, a ban on booting from external media, security at the entrance, an alarm, video surveillance, and so on.
When the system is set up by a competent specialist, then the accounts completely fulfill their function.
In addition, credentials are needed not only for authorization (differentiation of access rights), but also for identification and authentication.

Answer 8

Okay, you sat down at my laptop, rebooted it because you can't log in, found the password for the BIOS, and the flash drive booted up a bummer. At a minimum, you will have to open the case to get to the drive to connect it to another computer. Well, so it protects from something or what?

Answer 9

Very funny. "Why did they come up with this protection of personal data, if, as a doctor, patients already tell me everything?"