About 30 years ago, when I was just a kid, my parents would make me go with them when they went shopping. I would always go wander around the electronics sectio

About 30 years ago, when I was just a kid, my parents would make me go with them when they went shopping. I would always go wander around the electronics section of the store (I'm thinking of Walmart, specifically) to play with the computers. At that time, Windows 3.1 was the latest and greatest and is what was running on all of the "display" PCs. Unfortunately, the password-protected screensaver was almost always activated -- meaning you couldn't actually do anything on the PCs. Luckily, those passwords were easily bypassed! All you needed to do was simply power cycle / reboot the machine. Once it started booting up, you would just hit CTRL-C to interrupt and terminate the "autoexec.bat" file. Next, change into the "\WINDOWS\" directory, and open up some .INI file [0], find the line where the password was set, and delete everything after the "=" sign. Finally, save your changes, exit the editor, and hit CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot. The PC would start up and launch into Windows as usual, but without any password protection for the screensaver. (A slightly older version of myself may have, allegedly, then set his own passwords on occasion.) [0]: "sys.ini", "windows.ini", something like that.