[dba-Tech] Chromebook horror

[Gary Kjos]

Why don't you just add a new user to your chromebook with your google info?

Add a person to your Chromebook

If you're signed in to your Chromebook, sign out.
On the bottom, click Add person.
Enter the Google Account email address and password, then click Next.
Follow the steps that appear.


On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 2:45 PM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In the spirit of experimentation I thought I'd buy a Chromebook. I did
> manage to connect it to my  wifi, and that's when the horrors began. I
> couldn't remember my Google password and so logged in as a guest, and now I
> can't escape that login. (I have recovered my Google password, but cannot
> sign in as me because I've condemned myself to Guest.)
> I watched a video about how to install Windows 10 on a Chromebook. The
> vidBelarc works only on Windows and the Settings button doesn't seem to
> have a Windows-like option that will tell you what's inside, so how can I
> learn this? I can't even find the model number. All I know is that it's
> made by HP and the salesperson said it's got 32 gigs, but that person -
> obviously untrained  - claimed it was 32 gigs of RAM, which was the reason
> I bought it. Idiot me; it must mean that it contains a 32 GB hard disk and
> who knows, maybe 4GB of RAM. No way I can know without figuring out
> Chrome's equivalent of Belarc Advisor or Computer.
> If I can, I will convert this to a Windows 10 machine, run Belarc and see
> what I've been suckered into buying, and then decide what to do with it.
> Maybe I'll give it to Nellie's, a shelter for abused women in the
> neighbourhood, to which I donate  $10 a month -- and then go buy a serious
> laptop.
> I got suckered by price. My bad.
>
> --
> Arthur
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