AIBU My partner of 15 years has put a password on the laptop I bought him

[Jools995]

I have spent hours organising all my photos into Folders and thought it would make a great Fathers Day present to upload them onto the laptop that I bought him for Christmas. The photos are from our kids birth to date. However, he has put a password on and I now cant upload the pics for his FD surprise! AIBU to feel annoyed about this? He hasnt told me he has done this and I now feel that he doesnt trust me or is he hiding stuff from me?

That's right pearlylum just DP and I. We use whichever phone / laptop / tablet is closest!

I wouldn't like my OH looking around my phone. cupofrooibos don't you have anything private from your OH?

You really should have a password, otherwise if it's stolen and you've got open sessions in your browser they will be able to access your e-mail and potentially other sites like PayPal, internet banking, Facebook etc. You can either ask him to share the password with you or you can have your own account and put the photos in a shared folder.

Not particularly pearly I don't have any social media accounts so my phone doesn't have much on it. It really only has my work emails on it which is hardly worth hiding from DP. And I use his laptop for work all the time as its more portable than mine and I travel quite a bit. But then he's not a nosy person and knows there's nothing worth snooping on - and vice versa. At the moment I'm planning a surprise holiday for DP big birthday so having to carefully file away confirmation emails etc - but that's about it.

I'd phone whoever your laptop make is and ask. The only way I know how to do it is to reser your laptoo but you'd lose everything

As for OP. My OH knows my password, he occasionally borrows my laptop as his is ancient but I wouldn't be happy with him uploading/changing files on there without asking even if it was for a surprise present. Sorry but I guess it ruins the present but laptop's are personal things.

laptop and reset!

YABVVVU.
"Hi darling. Here's a gift, well, it's not really a gift as I retain absolute surveillance rights".
Have a word with yourself.

If you have kids it makes sense to password lock devices.

Why don't you print out the best photos for an album rather than just moving them around digitally?

I don't know if I'd want someone uploading lots of photos onto my laptop for a gift. It'll use up a lot of space? I'd have to move them all into cloud storage. I'd probably prefer a photo book or something, that seems so much nicer then a bunch of files. I don't have children though so it could be one of those things that changes when you do!

Agree with everyone else on the security front. He should have a password and if it's his laptop, he shouldn't need to tell you the password. Especially if it's using a password for something else like his email.

The laptop I travel with has a fingerprint reader so no password as such.

I somehow managed to get one of my pcs not to need a password

(Windows 10) wish I knew how I did it though for the other devices in my house

Our new home PC was set up for us by the bloke we bought it from, and it didn't have a password. A couple of days later for some reason it started asking for the Microsoft password before it will boot up properly and it's bloody annoying - but none of us set it to do this, it just seemed to do it by itself.

All of my devices are password/pin protected and my wife only knows the pin for my phone, not a big deal. Her devices are protected too but I don't know any of her passwords.

Mine automatically linked to my Microsoft account and needs a password. I wouldn't jump to any conclusions!

Also, Windows 10 either requires the password to the Outlook account that it's been linked to or a pin in order for the user to login, it's standard practice these days.

You certainly can use a Windows device without a password, but it's not sensible for the reasons already given.
DP and I have passwords on all our devices, but we both know what they are.

When I got my laptop it was Windows 8.1, and required I set up a password to use it. I've since updated to Windows 10.

While you can use/create a hotmail email for the pc, I was able to use my own preferred email address. I need to input the password before it will finish booting up.

cupof if you have work emails on it do you not need to have a password? That's a requirement where I work.

Mine also had to have a password - could you put the photos on a shared folder on Dropbox?

Momamum - Windows 8 passwords - hope that helps!

Of course it needs a password. What if someone steals it?

Everything is password protected OOAOML it's just that DP and I know the passwords for all devices.

peachbellini, thanks for your input. I've sorted out the Operating Systems disc to get it up and running again, and taken note of the warning which came with it that this will erase all data, so that's my absolute last resort, cos not everything's been saved to a memory stick. Damn.

Op, sorry, I was so eager to piggyback on your thread to ask my own question, I didn't say anything about your own preoccupation, but I think it's become clear now that setting a password isn't a sign of anything sinister or devious, it's just what he had to do. So....ask him for it?