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What bios passwords & settings are important to set on a Thinkpad X1 laptop?

Posted on January 6, 2019 by ripper234

I am just booting my new X1 for the first time, and went into the bios to set a bios password. I discovered a slew of security settings:

Supervisor password
Lock UEFI BIOS Settings (enabled/disabled)
Password at Unattended … Continue reading What bios passwords & settings are important to set on a Thinkpad X1 laptop?→

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What bios passwords & settings are important to set on a Thinkpad X1 laptop?

Posted on January 6, 2019 by ripper234

I am just booting my new X1 for the first time, and went into the bios to set a bios password. I discovered a slew of security settings:

Supervisor password
Lock UEFI BIOS Settings (enabled/disabled)
Password at Unattended … Continue reading What bios passwords & settings are important to set on a Thinkpad X1 laptop?→

Posted in bios

Why do you have to be an admin to create a symlink in Windows?

Posted on December 29, 2011 by ripper234

In linux every user can create symlinks, but in Windows I need an admin command line, or mklink fails. Why is that?

Continue reading Why do you have to be an admin to create a symlink in Windows?→

Posted in permissions, Windows

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