Username and password is only for different desktop settings e.g. different users have different desktop settings and can go to their desktop by entering their username and password. gilson redrick wrote:
List,
A while ago I had to re-install Win98 ; for the first time, I decided to fake that I had more than one user and require password. Since then, I had to use Win98 only twice, and in both occasions I dutifully entered my password. This afternoon, I wasn't paying too good attention to the booting up procedure and found myself in Win98 rather than S-7.3. I was about to enter the password when, in a moment of inspiration, I decided to click on Cancel, expecting the process to come to a halt until I entered a valid password, as it happens in Linux. To my great surprise, the booting up proceeded normally, and I had full access to all programs and data!!! What's the point of having to enter a user name and password, if it's so easy to bypass it? I hope you're all laughing at my naïveté. I did laugh a lot!