- Feb 25, 2015
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I have a job cleaning repo houses, bank owned homes, or what ever you call them. For the most part 80% of the stuff we take out is plain junk! But the other 20% is a gold mine! You name it we have found it. Money, flat screen TV's, surround sound systems and laptops. We have a rule. Who ever see something first gets to keep it. If no one wants it, it gets pitched!
Anyways I have 6 laptops Dell, HP and a couple I have no clue what they are. I know zero about computers. I am lucky I know how to check my email! But I digress. Any who, the other day when it was snowing like a monther, I pulled a couple out to see if they worked. One didn't do a darn thing. But two came on went through the start up, I guess you would call it, and then went to a screen that just had a white bar for a password. No start in the corner, no nothing just the white bar.
I have searched the web to see if I can get into them to open them and reset them, deleting all the personal B.S. but can't find anything on how to do this. I would have no clue what is on them as in Windows 7, Windows XP or so on. Several places I have searched on the internet said it can be done but I would need to show ownership where ever I would take it to.
There in lies the problem.
I don't have anything to show ownership. Like I said they were found in forclosed homes. Any insight on what I can do to prove they are now mine or how to get them opened? I would like to remove all of it before I even started using one or even sell one. I also don't want the pervious owners to be called as I know darn well they will take them back and I figure if they had 6 months to get it out in the first place, it must not of been on the top of their list to keep. As if it wasn't for me taking them they would be in a landfill somewhere. Any ideals?
Thanks to all.
Anyways I have 6 laptops Dell, HP and a couple I have no clue what they are. I know zero about computers. I am lucky I know how to check my email! But I digress. Any who, the other day when it was snowing like a monther, I pulled a couple out to see if they worked. One didn't do a darn thing. But two came on went through the start up, I guess you would call it, and then went to a screen that just had a white bar for a password. No start in the corner, no nothing just the white bar.
I have searched the web to see if I can get into them to open them and reset them, deleting all the personal B.S. but can't find anything on how to do this. I would have no clue what is on them as in Windows 7, Windows XP or so on. Several places I have searched on the internet said it can be done but I would need to show ownership where ever I would take it to.
There in lies the problem.
I don't have anything to show ownership. Like I said they were found in forclosed homes. Any insight on what I can do to prove they are now mine or how to get them opened? I would like to remove all of it before I even started using one or even sell one. I also don't want the pervious owners to be called as I know darn well they will take them back and I figure if they had 6 months to get it out in the first place, it must not of been on the top of their list to keep. As if it wasn't for me taking them they would be in a landfill somewhere. Any ideals?
Thanks to all.
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