I bricked the BIOS... by running a script that apparently TRIED to remove the BIOS password but rather bricked it... I can still access my OS Win11 normally, but just can't access BIOS menus.
@@king_creeperz in earlier versions of windows, notepad was called WRITE.EXE (in like verison 2.0 and 1.0) and you know Microsoft never makes a full new version, they just upgrade things. Same thing happened to notepad lol
I remember when an old dude was hired as administrator at my school and he set the PCs up like this. We literally couldn't do anything on them so IT classes were effectively cancelled for a few months because the school needed to find a new admin... I'm all too familiar with that "contact your administrator" window
Okay. So, I actually stumbled across some of overrestricted installations. I've been in school and the program we were working in just froze and wasn't responding. I wanted to kill it through Task Manager and launch it again - I couldn't because Task Manager was blocked by the system administrator. Instead of restricting what could be viewed in the Task Manager and what processes could be touched with it, they decided to blatantly block it entirely. Task Manager is kinda vital for aid in killing an unresponsive program eating up resources. I do get why they decided to block it, but they actually made more issues, because the only way to get rid of the unresponsive program was a reboot. And sometimes it's painful to do a proper reboot when a program is stuck frozen, so sometimes you have to do a hard reboot, just kill Windows at this point. Task Manager could potentially prevented that from happening.
@@ScribeAwoken that's still a pretty common thing sadly. They recently killed task manager entirely in my school because people were using the ability to start a process to run games. Oh Google Chrome is also blocked because someone installed a VPN on it. The school machines are practically unusable now. This is why I opt to just use my own computer. Basically in schools (at least in the UK) user profiles aren't given enough rights.
I remember back when Win XP was just introduced in schools and somehow I'd always manage to crash MS Word somehow and completely lock up the system to the point dragging a window around would draw that window all over the place kinda like the "Stamp tool" in some paint programs. For the first short while, the teacher would go get the IT admin to try and "fix" the crash and throughout each time, I'd suggest just power-cycling the PC. After the first time I'd suggest to the school IT tech, he'd go in to the class and just flip the power-socket switch off and back on again (UK sockets have switches on them BTW unlike USA). That goes against what most were taught to do with a PC at the time even if and when the Admin would advise to do so, thus it were a waste of the Admin's time where he had to interrupt his teaching several times a day and thus the policy changed to: if the computer acts up for any reason, just power-cycle it. If they'd just had task-manager available, that'd been a better solution than power-cycling.
Yep, I've been there too.. I think i tired to open winver and it throwed up the "contact your administrator" thingy.. The even worse thing is the way they tried to restrict parts of the os made it slower than a 10 year old pc on windows 10.. I definitely don't think a laptop from 2020 should take 1 hour to get to the desktop..
Nah, a rookie who thinks he knows enough is more dangerous. I've yet again have a week of cleanup work next week thanks to a guy who thinks he knows enough and simply presses buttons without asking or telling anyone. Not the first time he takes my valuable time away with his actions.
I've seen worse. In a conflict about company data ownership one of the owners wet to the server room at night ripped all disks from our file server wanting to copy over the data to their own servers. They forgot all disks were part of a RAID system and the raid only works with a specific RAID card and the disks in specific RAID drive bays. When they realized that they could not read any usable data from the disks they put the disks back into the bays in random order. Well, we had no working file server the next morning. My superior hired a senior ICT consultant to fix it. But they were not able to restore. Then they left the system to me (Junior PC admin). I made a matrix with all possible combinations of slots and disks and tried all different orders until I found the original configuration. System booted without problems. Yes, there were backups, but there were no systems to rebuild them to in any reasonable time period.
This video is an amazing idea, Fly. Showing how certain settings can be used (and more importantly, misused), how it impacts other users, and the fix. There's LOADS of settings and situations this could apply to. I've love to see the Rookie Admin return in the future for some more missteps & explanations behind it.
In fairness, this isn't exactly a tutorial of what you should do. If anything, it's showing you why you should not use GPedit unless you specifically know exactly what you are doing. It's a fantastic tool in the right hands, you can do all kinds of things with it like fine-grain control over every aspect of windows updates, something Win 10 normally won't let you do, for example.
my old laptop had win10 pro, which i used gpedit to disable real time protection to get rid of ''antimalware service executable'' , but when i got a new one it came with the home version and i got kinda sad when i realised i couldn't use gpedit
If there's one thing I learned in high school it's that if someone is determined enough they will do whatever they want on a computer no matter how locked down
@@FlyTechVideos windows has 40 years of development with a rabid desire for backwards compatibility, no matter what hacks are required to achieve it, and also the computers are usually set up by sysadmins with around the pc knowledge of mr red text box in your video. so if there's a strong enough will, there will be a way. there be some crazy ass stories on how kids bypassed pc restrictions.
@@chaosmassive8627 or go straight for the boot drive, bring it home, and unlock the default administrator user with rescatux or something similar (probably overkill though)
i don't have an office 365 subscription so i use wordpad to write basic documents. seeing how it's pretty much completely indestructible certainly gives me faith.
I know you won't ever see this, but there's always libre office on linux. Its free, though I don't know how good it is since I just play games on this pc.
@Generic Cat Name I have in fact seen it, and I did actually find out about LibreOffice shortly after posting the original comment through YT recommendations :) Never ended up downloading it because my laptop at the time wouldn't have been able to handle it (it took about 5-10 minutes to convince it to open a browser without immediately crashing), but I do have it now.
Our school system admin's have completely disabled Windows Update. All our school computers are running some 16xx version of Windows (that's 6 YEARS OLD!) I have asked them to update multiple times, and they said they'll *try* in the next summer vacation.
The funny thing for me is that maybe 2 weeks ago I read about Software Restriction to enable it in my company. And yes, 4 months ago I was promoted from HelpDesk to SysAdministrator. (So in theory I'm a rookie, but fortunetly I am circumspect)
Early Windows NT versions had some rather annoying defaults for ordinary users if you didn't at least have Power User authority. One in particular restricted you from changing the time and date, which may have been OK for version 3.x, but in 4.0 that had the side effect you couldn't even bring up the handy calendar when you double clicked in the lower right corner (which is often what people used that for, rather than to modify date or time.) Also, Guest accounts on NT 3.x couldn't even change the screen resolution, but at least 4.0 allowed it.
I've found that random phish/bait test emails coupled with required social engineering/IT best practices training should the user fail, is much better than locking down non-elevated OS functions. Users falling for password reset phishing scams is by far my biggest concern as NOC/Secops LV III.
Remember, if you want to remove some virus/Malware (some type like adware, spyware, cryptominer, etc) , fix some key reg, or cant get in to windows. The answer is (in most Cases) : Safe Mode.
yeah, our sysadmins at the school I go to have blocked opening settings, downloading any chrome extensions (you cant even go to the page). This doesn’t help anyone, i’m part of the robotics team and we need an extension to code the robots, we’ve probably been waiting for over a month for the admins to unblock it and allow us to download it.
I almost *never* mess with these settings (Software Restrictions) in active directory policies due to how much you can make things break (as apparent with this video. XD) Even just slightly messing with these in my experience (and shown in this vid) causes things to behave erratically, such as giving you security warnings that you can't extract a .zip file (happened to me, however 7-Zip bypasses this) or any kind of setup .exe file with a harmless looking setting.. honestly pretty crazy what you can do, sometimes hilarious if you want to test a very restricted environment, but either way dangerous XD
We're about to deploy AppLocker (these software restriction policies) as part of our company's ISO 27001 security certification. Sorry in advance. Sincerely, the sysadmin.
"Dear Admin. I know where you live. I'll find you and your family. And I'll change _your_ permissions. You've been warned." ~ UA-cam comments guy, 2022 (paraphrased)
By editing the local group policy, when you boot normally won't it eventually get overwritten and back to being blocked when it syncs back up with the domain controller?
well yes, in my case there was no domain controller, though if such an admin is the sysadmin who controls the domain, then this could happen... (though i hope no person with such skills ever gets such a job)
sys admin in my school did this on all computers in our computer lab (atleast that's how we call it) and guess what? all of the PCs didn't boot. he tried everything, but the only solution was to reinstall windows. our previous comp sci teacher even blamed our group (yes, we have two groups in our class) for breaking them.
What if you (the user) had to sign in to a domain account, not a local one, and the admin(s) had domain admin accounts. Could they disable the local admin account completely, remove password, so it cannot be logged into, delete all other local accounts, and _then_ do this to brick it? You wouldn't even be able to do the safe mode trick because you can't log into domain accounts in safe mode (unless safe mode with networking does? I don't know if that's possible tho)... how would you fix _that_ ? Bonus points: there are critical files on the disk but it's encrypted so you can't wipe it or put the drive in another computer to get the data
@@wheeI Oh, I guess that makes sense... what if the guest account was enabled but nothing else? It has really low permissions and most certainly not admin access...
I like stardock start11 because it doesn't cannibalize system files and require a reformat just to stop using it. .. To bring back the colorful windows 8 tiles 😊
It's like our school computers. There you can't open the settings. It just closes before it has loaded. I just want to enable dark mode 🙄 Right clicks are btw also disabled.
@@hmwndp or fn+shift+f10 if you have the settings in ur bios so that the function keys require the fn button to be held so that it could do what it needs to do like increase the screen brightness
When your admin disables the taskbar settings button, but allows the settings app to be used and from there to navigate to taskbar settings. Good though, the default settings hide labels and combine buttons on both taskbars (2 displays), and show all active programs, which is horribly inefficient to me.
Reminds me of how my school district disabled the inspect menu in Chrome on the Chromebooks because people would play with it. Problem is, I had an HTML course so i was flying completely blind as I had no way to debug code. Started bringing my own laptop from then on
I've had some pretty restrictive sysadmins as well. On my work computer, I'm just not allowed to unpin Microsoft Office from my Start menu for some reason.
Have you ever messed up your Windows with settings? If yes, how?
I made the policies reg key unaccessable. RIP my system.
closest i can think of is that one time back in 2016 when i changed the cursor to one of those high contrast ones and didnt know how to change it back
Tweaked something in the device manager, now usb ports won't detect
I bricked the BIOS... by running a script that apparently TRIED to remove the BIOS password but rather bricked it... I can still access my OS Win11 normally, but just can't access BIOS menus.
Not exactly but I accidentaly killed explorer.exe in task Manager. As the Wallpaper disapeared I nearly shat in my trousers 😆
what type of magic did ms give to wordpad to make it indestructible by even windows itself
@Andri resistance 32727
@@king_creeperz in earlier versions of windows, notepad was called WRITE.EXE (in like verison 2.0 and 1.0) and you know Microsoft never makes a full new version, they just upgrade things. Same thing happened to notepad lol
@@randomguy-gb9ge they actually updated wordpad in Win7 tho
Well, microsoft purchased mojang, maybe wordpad is bedrock.
@Andri 11*
Rookie sysadmin: unstopable force
Wordpad: *U N M O V A B L E O B J E C T*
Set everything to disallowed, then wordpad will be destroyed.
@@alhamkhamo2231 you ruined the meme
@@alhamkhamo2231 he did
@@alhamkhamo2231 >:(
@@alhamkhamo2231 WordPad's a critical process, I don't think that'll work
I remember when an old dude was hired as administrator at my school and he set the PCs up like this. We literally couldn't do anything on them so IT classes were effectively cancelled for a few months because the school needed to find a new admin... I'm all too familiar with that "contact your administrator" window
lol
security over usability
Being 100% secure is being 100% unusable
lol
@@newlineschannelagreed
My school did this. Literally disabled the OS.
At that point sincerely just boot into a Linux USB drive or circumvent the blocks
@@serraramayfield9230 often times you can’t, the boot menu is locked with a password
@@TheLegendaryHacker change BIOS’s boot order???
@@chri-k BIOS is often locked down too
@@TheLegendaryHacker Sometimes you can get it to boot from CD, or force it to do so with certain Windows commands
An explanation why Wordpad is indestructible would be actually interesting i think
No, that would kill the meme
This would actually be interesting....
Wordpad is considered a critical process, as in, something the system NEEDS to run and hence is an exception to any of these policies.
@@waldolemmer so? It doesn't mean we cant learn something new
@@serraramayfield9230 why isn't explorer considered essential?
Okay. So, I actually stumbled across some of overrestricted installations. I've been in school and the program we were working in just froze and wasn't responding. I wanted to kill it through Task Manager and launch it again - I couldn't because Task Manager was blocked by the system administrator. Instead of restricting what could be viewed in the Task Manager and what processes could be touched with it, they decided to blatantly block it entirely. Task Manager is kinda vital for aid in killing an unresponsive program eating up resources. I do get why they decided to block it, but they actually made more issues, because the only way to get rid of the unresponsive program was a reboot. And sometimes it's painful to do a proper reboot when a program is stuck frozen, so sometimes you have to do a hard reboot, just kill Windows at this point. Task Manager could potentially prevented that from happening.
I remember something similar when I was in high school. There was a point where right-click and task manager were both disabled.
@@ScribeAwoken that's still a pretty common thing sadly. They recently killed task manager entirely in my school because people were using the ability to start a process to run games. Oh Google Chrome is also blocked because someone installed a VPN on it. The school machines are practically unusable now. This is why I opt to just use my own computer.
Basically in schools (at least in the UK) user profiles aren't given enough rights.
I remember back when Win XP was just introduced in schools and somehow I'd always manage to crash MS Word somehow and completely lock up the system to the point dragging a window around would draw that window all over the place kinda like the "Stamp tool" in some paint programs.
For the first short while, the teacher would go get the IT admin to try and "fix" the crash and throughout each time, I'd suggest just power-cycling the PC. After the first time I'd suggest to the school IT tech, he'd go in to the class and just flip the power-socket switch off and back on again (UK sockets have switches on them BTW unlike USA). That goes against what most were taught to do with a PC at the time even if and when the Admin would advise to do so, thus it were a waste of the Admin's time where he had to interrupt his teaching several times a day and thus the policy changed to: if the computer acts up for any reason, just power-cycle it.
If they'd just had task-manager available, that'd been a better solution than power-cycling.
@@ScribeAwoken ikr. same for me
Yep, I've been there too.. I think i tired to open winver and it throwed up the "contact your administrator" thingy.. The even worse thing is the way they tried to restrict parts of the os made it slower than a 10 year old pc on windows 10.. I definitely don't think a laptop from 2020 should take 1 hour to get to the desktop..
One thing more dangerous than a "rookie sysadmin" is a "sysadmin on a power trip"
Nah, a rookie who thinks he knows enough is more dangerous. I've yet again have a week of cleanup work next week thanks to a guy who thinks he knows enough and simply presses buttons without asking or telling anyone. Not the first time he takes my valuable time away with his actions.
Rookie sysadmin on a power trip.
"I don't know what "Basic User" is, I'll just set it to "Disallowed"."
*sysadmin no longer can fix it*
@@official-obama *ME BLOCKING ADMIN FROM FUCKING AROUND IN GPEDIT.MSC*
I've seen worse. In a conflict about company data ownership one of the owners wet to the server room at night ripped all disks from our file server wanting to copy over the data to their own servers. They forgot all disks were part of a RAID system and the raid only works with a specific RAID card and the disks in specific RAID drive bays. When they realized that they could not read any usable data from the disks they put the disks back into the bays in random order.
Well, we had no working file server the next morning. My superior hired a senior ICT consultant to fix it. But they were not able to restore. Then they left the system to me (Junior PC admin). I made a matrix with all possible combinations of slots and disks and tried all different orders until I found the original configuration. System booted without problems.
Yes, there were backups, but there were no systems to rebuild them to in any reasonable time period.
This video is an amazing idea, Fly. Showing how certain settings can be used (and more importantly, misused), how it impacts other users, and the fix. There's LOADS of settings and situations this could apply to. I've love to see the Rookie Admin return in the future for some more missteps & explanations behind it.
Thank you for your feedback! I'll keep this in mind when creating future videos 👀
Reminder that GPedit is not actually available on home versions of Windows, which most users would be using.
Still good info to have!
In fairness, this isn't exactly a tutorial of what you should do. If anything, it's showing you why you should not use GPedit unless you specifically know exactly what you are doing.
It's a fantastic tool in the right hands, you can do all kinds of things with it like fine-grain control over every aspect of windows updates, something Win 10 normally won't let you do, for example.
Not in counties where almost everyone pirates, and so installs Pro/Ultimate editions of software
my old laptop had win10 pro, which i used gpedit to disable real time protection to get rid of ''antimalware service executable'' , but when i got a new one it came with the home version and i got kinda sad when i realised i couldn't use gpedit
@@johnsalamii use regedit to edit the same settings. It’s harder, but still possible
@@rostyc only windows 7/vista have ultimate versions if i remember correctly
If there's one thing I learned in high school it's that if someone is determined enough they will do whatever they want on a computer no matter how locked down
Not if there's a bios boot password!
@@FlyTechVideos windows has 40 years of development with a rabid desire for backwards compatibility, no matter what hacks are required to achieve it, and also the computers are usually set up by sysadmins with around the pc knowledge of mr red text box in your video. so if there's a strong enough will, there will be a way. there be some crazy ass stories on how kids bypassed pc restrictions.
@@SandTurtle funnily enough, I've used wordpad to bypass restrictions before.
@@FlyTechVideos remove the cmos battery !
@@chaosmassive8627 or go straight for the boot drive, bring it home, and unlock the default administrator user with rescatux or something similar (probably overkill though)
i don't have an office 365 subscription so i use wordpad to write basic documents. seeing how it's pretty much completely indestructible certainly gives me faith.
Set everything to disallowed then wordpad will not run
well it's time that you pirate the shit out of it
Its free online
I know you won't ever see this, but there's always libre office on linux. Its free, though I don't know how good it is since I just play games on this pc.
@Generic Cat Name I have in fact seen it, and I did actually find out about LibreOffice shortly after posting the original comment through YT recommendations :) Never ended up downloading it because my laptop at the time wouldn't have been able to handle it (it took about 5-10 minutes to convince it to open a browser without immediately crashing), but I do have it now.
Our school system admin's have completely disabled Windows Update. All our school computers are running some 16xx version of Windows (that's 6 YEARS OLD!)
I have asked them to update multiple times, and they said they'll *try* in the next summer vacation.
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whaaaaat
thats a good thing, you can use winre exploit!
@@SOTP. They fixed the exploit, and then reversed it in Windows 11.
@@0xc4ae1e5 wait WHAT
The funny thing for me is that maybe 2 weeks ago I read about Software Restriction to enable it in my company. And yes, 4 months ago I was promoted from HelpDesk to SysAdministrator. (So in theory I'm a rookie, but fortunetly I am circumspect)
Wordpad just runs under anything.
It's a brick wall and Group Policy is a wooden shovel.
Admin: netherite pickaxe with haste 32767
WordPad: bedrock
The wooden shovel can break bricks tho
2:54 The admin actually prevented the user from getting rickroll'd
Early Windows NT versions had some rather annoying defaults for ordinary users if you didn't at least have Power User authority. One in particular restricted you from changing the time and date, which may have been OK for version 3.x, but in 4.0 that had the side effect you couldn't even bring up the handy calendar when you double clicked in the lower right corner (which is often what people used that for, rather than to modify date or time.)
Also, Guest accounts on NT 3.x couldn't even change the screen resolution, but at least 4.0 allowed it.
WordPad f o r s o m e r e a s o n was always indestructible in all of your videos. One of them is Mass-overwriting the Windows Registry
So in safe mode, Windows outright ignores the group policies.
Sysadmin had developed a whole character arc in just 3 minutes
EDIT: "With great power comes great responsibility".
69 likes hehe
"At least Wordpad is
I N D I S T R U C T I B L E"
*Street Fighter 4 theme intensifies*
I hope sysadmin learned something today.
ye
One thing I'll say about wordpad is that if you insert an object, you can open some more programs that you wouldn't normally be able to open.
Now imagine this on a Active Directory domain, You would cause hundreds, or thousands of computers to become paperweight
easy, just repeat the fix precedure over a _hundreds or thousands_ times.
@@chaosmassive8627i think if they have an AD domain they're able to edit group policies and apply them automatically across the whole domain
I've found that random phish/bait test emails coupled with required social engineering/IT best practices training should the user fail, is much better than locking down non-elevated OS functions. Users falling for password reset phishing scams is by far my biggest concern as NOC/Secops LV III.
Remember, if you want to remove some virus/Malware (some type like adware, spyware, cryptominer, etc) , fix some key reg, or cant get in to windows.
The answer is (in most Cases) : Safe Mode.
yeah, our sysadmins at the school I go to have blocked opening settings, downloading any chrome extensions (you cant even go to the page). This doesn’t help anyone, i’m part of the robotics team and we need an extension to code the robots, we’ve probably been waiting for over a month for the admins to unblock it and allow us to download it.
At this point i'd rather backdoor my way into the admin account...
The sysadmin was right. The system can't be insecure if there is no system.
sysadmin be like :
"trust me, im an engineer professional"
*destroys the entire os*
Every other program: is rendered useless
Wordpad: *_You dare oppose me mortal_*
Wordpad is destructible, set everything to disallowed.
@@alhamkhamo2231 you just ruined the joke, come on man
@@alhamkhamo2231 dude is trying to end a meme
I love how you named the account 'walk'
I almost *never* mess with these settings (Software Restrictions) in active directory policies due to how much you can make things break (as apparent with this video. XD)
Even just slightly messing with these in my experience (and shown in this vid) causes things to behave erratically, such as giving you security warnings that you can't extract a .zip file (happened to me, however 7-Zip bypasses this) or any kind of setup .exe file with a harmless looking setting.. honestly pretty crazy what you can do, sometimes hilarious if you want to test a very restricted environment, but either way dangerous XD
Imagine doing the same, but with Active directory Default domain policy.
Now not just users on that computer are blocked from doing anything, everyone on the domain is blocked from doing anything hahaha
I never knew that windows could basically just shoot itself with its own software😅
I just now realized this is exactly what my school did to its computers
Now, clone this tested computer to 100 computers in school. lol
«i just want to fix the pc»
*notices the kernel application was blocked too* 💀💀💀
I don't know why, but I acted out both sysadmin and user segments in my head and i couldnt stop laughing
My school has added basic security settings, within reason, but now with the addition of blocking task manager.
WHO BLOCKS TASK MANAGER WTH
they are suspisous that you will type uninstall.exe
2:55 Great admin… You prevented a Rick Roll!
The user: Why can't I use this for video-
never even heard of this software restriction thing but the moment he put in the asterisk i knew he fucked up
We're about to deploy AppLocker (these software restriction policies) as part of our company's ISO 27001 security certification.
Sorry in advance. Sincerely, the sysadmin.
Out of all the things that are now restricted, WordPad's a true champ to survive!
Not, set everything to disallowed and see for yourself.
this is literally my schools management settings...
there's another way to get around this, when the 'choose an option' menu pops up, start cmd from troubleshoot and do it from there
"Dear Admin. I know where you live. I'll find you and your family. And I'll change _your_ permissions. You've been warned." ~ UA-cam comments guy, 2022 (paraphrased)
i would be severely concerned for a company if they let this admin make it past an interview
By editing the local group policy, when you boot normally won't it eventually get overwritten and back to being blocked when it syncs back up with the domain controller?
well yes, in my case there was no domain controller, though if such an admin is the sysadmin who controls the domain, then this could happen... (though i hope no person with such skills ever gets such a job)
disconnect from the domain network , and use off-domain internet access :D
@@chaosmassive8627 then windows will stop softlocking when attempting to load logonui lol
Wordpad is indestructible.
Wordpad is love.
I've seen some stupid stuff when onboarding new clients from previous IT companies but I'm just so glad I've never seen this.
That rookie admin had the perfect defence for malware tho 😅
Noob sysadmin: Ima make a bunch of settings to make sure no malware
Students: Bruh I can’t do anything, is there malware?
your windows password for the user fly is tech, right?
No. The password is none!
Absolutely awesome video FlyTech! Keep it up!
Dear sysadmin,
I know where you live.
I am 100mt from your house.
Start running.
I didn't know that safe mode disables group policies
If the policies don't apply in Safe Mode, isn't that a security hole?
sys admin in my school did this on all computers in our computer lab (atleast that's how we call it) and guess what? all of the PCs didn't boot. he tried everything, but the only solution was to reinstall windows. our previous comp sci teacher even blamed our group (yes, we have two groups in our class) for breaking them.
Actual reason why WordPad is indestructible: It isn't a Windows Store app like Notepad and Mspaint are in Windows 11
for some reason wordpad also doesn't break in a lot of circumstances
It’s not quite indestructible, disallow everything in the group policy editor
@@alhamkhamo2231 dude stop tryna ruin the meme
What if you (the user) had to sign in to a domain account, not a local one, and the admin(s) had domain admin accounts. Could they disable the local admin account completely, remove password, so it cannot be logged into, delete all other local accounts, and _then_ do this to brick it? You wouldn't even be able to do the safe mode trick because you can't log into domain accounts in safe mode (unless safe mode with networking does? I don't know if that's possible tho)... how would you fix _that_ ?
Bonus points: there are critical files on the disk but it's encrypted so you can't wipe it or put the drive in another computer to get the data
If there are no accounts on the PC, you can boot into cmd prompt without a password.
@@wheeI Oh, I guess that makes sense... what if the guest account was enabled but nothing else? It has really low permissions and most certainly not admin access...
There's a program called startallback.
It restored windows 10 taskbar functionality along with some other options.
Maybe take a look at it.
but i like the windows 11 start :/
@@FlyTechVideos Windows 10 and it's taskbar are better
@@MSDOSMemes it's his opinion
I like stardock start11 because it doesn't cannibalize system files and require a reformat just to stop using it. .. To bring back the colorful windows 8 tiles 😊
It's like our school computers. There you can't open the settings. It just closes before it has loaded. I just want to enable dark mode 🙄
Right clicks are btw also disabled.
Uhhhh... Shift+F10?
@@hmwndp or fn+shift+f10 if you have the settings in ur bios so that the function keys require the fn button to be held so that it could do what it needs to do like increase the screen brightness
WHO DISABLES RIGHT CLICKS WTF
@@SOTP. it can be used to do bad stuff but then again they could just restrict certain items of the menu instead of block it entirely
@@notthatntg yes but that seems like a TERRIBLE idea...
2:44 Why do you have a Windows XP installation CD mounted?
I just forgot to eject it. It appears in multiple videos now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
These settings fully rapresent my school computers
2:53 Nice music he's got there xd
this reminds me of school computers
4:21 how to soft-lock windows 101:
Dear Admin, please unblock Cortana, I dint know why you did after i asked her to marry me. Thanks.
POV: Your company's administrator's prohibited everything expect WordPad for you to work more "productive"
When your admin disables the taskbar settings button, but allows the settings app to be used and from there to navigate to taskbar settings.
Good though, the default settings hide labels and combine buttons on both taskbars (2 displays), and show all active programs, which is horribly inefficient to me.
"Message to that rookie":
"Police fact: I'm 100 meters from your location and approaching rapidly.
start running"
2:55 rickroll blocked by admin, gg
my school literally hid the c drive and had everything on networks so you can see everyone else's flipcharts, documents etc
thats exactly true. only staff could access the C: drive
@@Moviesxp At my primary school (I'm in secondary now) the students used Chromebooks, only admins (not even staff) could access the C: drive
my secondary does this and i just made a shortcut to c:/ and it worked
@@DaRealTriTi well that's a loophole, I'd report that to the IT team
@@notthatntg pretty sure i cant modify anything in c: but ill see
Did you post this video with the vm?
When the new admin guy drinks a little bit too much...
4:04 Hey that’s me!
Reminds me of how my school district disabled the inspect menu in Chrome on the Chromebooks because people would play with it. Problem is, I had an HTML course so i was flying completely blind as I had no way to debug code.
Started bringing my own laptop from then on
Flytech, Please make a video about applying Windows XP Luna Theme in Windows Longhorn 5098/5112. Whether with/without Theme Patcher. Thank you!
In Australia:
Primary school: no cmd, no task manager!
Secondary school: you can use cmd and task manager with open arms!
My school has blocked the recycle bin and the regedit and cmd and probably have some custom policies
The recycle bin? Do the files get directly deleted or can't delete stuff?
@@chocpancakes Likely direct deletion.
Powershell?
3:14 lool the Windows XP folders are still there xd (i mean: My Pictures, My..)
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@@chipdacat hi.. ignor that, that was my 2021 me..
I saw your video on my youtube homepage and looked at the thumbnail. How could this be?!?
huh.. walk.. isn't it your childhood nickname?
damn you revealed me 👀
8:00 H U M O R
How to child proof your computer, so your child can only type his home work:
@Jelly Smurf WordPad :-/
@Jelly Smurf Too bad it wouldn't matter what the teacher wanted ಥ‿ಥ
@Jelly Smurf I code mine with milk
@Jelly Smurf the dairy product that you get from stores and also the ones someone's dad usually leaves to "buy"
@Jelly Smurf *y e s*
I thought you would start a command prompt instead of booting in safe mode in the recovery step
Safe mode is easier to work with than CMD
My computer always gets mad and had enough so it ate my memory (OUT_OF_MEMORY)
This is like how my university blocked the entire settings and control panel apps so I can't switch the mouse buttons (I'm left handed)
WordPad = The Nokia 3310 of Windows apps (R.I.P WordPad 1995-2024)
Yep, it was certainly worth the wait!
3:40 hey atleast the admin removed edge
Cool music and hot destruction - my favourite Fly Tech Videos ❤️
this proves once more that wordpad is invincible
Why does WordPad still work?
School sysadmins: THANKS FOR THE TUTORIAL! 😃
plot twist: the admin tool was actually infected with malware
Windows 11 still has Windows Media Player? It hasn't been fully deprecated by Movies & TV yet, despite that app being introduced with Windows 8?
every public school district sysadmin:
I've had some pretty restrictive sysadmins as well. On my work computer, I'm just not allowed to unpin Microsoft Office from my Start menu for some reason.
What's about the UAC, is the pop-up come?