Windows 10 – Toddler Deletes Everything with 6 Clicks OK, it's a click-bait title, but check this out: You're only 6 clicks away from wiping out your Windows 10 installation. 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!
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).
"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