PDF File: Remove Password Protection
KB ID 0001719 Problem My daughter had a file that was protected by a password, (it had sensitive personal information in it). She wanted to send this file to someone, but wanted to remove the password protection first. I thought this would be easy, open it in Acrobat Reader, find the bit that says ‘password protect’ and untick it right? Well to enable that ‘feature’ (called the “protect feature”),...
Stop Windows Asking For Password After Sleep / Standby
KB ID 0001624 Problem I’ve done a few posts that involve me demonstrating how to disable a security feature, and people have messaged me with a mix of disgust/distain/horror. But I’m sick and tired of all the machines on my test network getting locked while I’m dragged onto something else, they are test machines, with no live data on them, and there’s only me uses them anyway! And some people just want to log...
Symantec AntiVirus Asks For Password During Uninstall
KB ID 0000894 Problem I was finishing off a domain migration this week and was changing the clients over to McAfee. On one machine I found it had Symantec AntiVirus. When I tried to remove it, it asked for a password. One of the other machines had Symantec Endpoint Protection installed and this did the same. As expected, no one knew what this password was, and the default password ‘symantec’ didn’t work. Solution...
Freecom Tough Drive – Remove Password and CD Drive
KB ID 0000403 Problem I’m a big fan of Tough Drives! My old 260GB was getting a bit full – so I bit the bullet and replaced it with a shiny new Tough Drive Sport 750GB. As it comes with password protection I turned this on – fast forward to the next day (this morning) and it’s bugging the hell out of me. I mailed the nice folk at Freecom and within twenty minutes they mailed me back with instructions to...