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Starting from the Desktop, click on: Start / Settings / Update & Security / Recovery / Get Started (Reset this PC) / Remove Everything
You are never asked to enter a password, or type in "Remove Everything" as a fail-safe.
Some people will still do that and be surprised at the result.
My dad once reformatted his memory card on his camera, losing all his pictures from his vacation. He wanted to 'Change the Format' of the image (why? who knows), but instead he reformatted the card. "Are you Sure? Yes!"
I once copied an empty partition over a full partition instead of vice versa. I knew I only had one copy of this important data, and was trying to back it up. Are you sure? double-check.. YUP!
You should never have given him/her the root password.
You should never have given him/her the root password.
True, but... you obviously don't have kids! ;)
"kids" should never have administrative privileges on the system (up to the point they can burn a CD - then they can have admin privileges because with enough googling they can do it themselves). And you might want to install a sandbox type program - http://alternativeto.net/software/deep-freeze/?license=free
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True, but... you obviously don't have kids! ;)
> you obviously don't have kids "kids" should never have administrative privileges on the system (up to the point they can burn a CD - then they can have admin privileges because with enough googling they can do it themselves). And you might want to install a sandbox type program - http://alternativeto.net/software/deep-freeze/?license=free
Thus a probability of 1 in (10^6 * the chance of your toddler getting unsupervised access while the computer is on and in an accepting state).