How Do I Access the Computer of Someone Who’s Passed Away?

❤️ If no preparations have been made beforehand to access the computer of someone whos passed away it e can be anywhere from easy to impossible.

Accessing the deceased's computer
– Back up the computer’s hard disk if possible.
– Attempt to recover access to the Microsoft account online used to sign in to the computer (if they used one).
– Attempt to reset the administrator password on older machines.
– Access the data by removing the hard disk and using it as an external hard drive on another machine.
– Access the data by mounting the backup image as a virtual drive on another machine.
Try a recovery service.

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Chapters
0:00 Access computer of someone who's passed away
0:41 The goal of security
2:12 What survivors can do
2:24 Before you start: back up
4:23 Recover their Microsoft account
6:18 Resetting the administrator password
7:00 Windows 10 has better security
7:28 Don’t log, remove the drive
8:22 If they used encryption you may not get in
9:25 Use the backup image
10:31 Apply money: forensics
11:28 Prevention

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