Re: Windoze exprets?

Michael wrote:
"PrinceGunter" <slippymississippi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1143209889.545867.144910@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
If it's locked and you don't know the password, contact your system
admin. If that's not possible, do a hard reboot (cylce the power).

I was assuming they had tried that, but I'll check. This is coming
from someone who runs a non-profit that had a rogue employee that I
think changed all of the passwords on the machine (hopefully, the
employee wasn't technically adept enough to change the bios password).

Although it could be as simple as you guys are making it out, I was
assuming the worst and was curious if there was a package out there...
like a boot disk that you boot up on and run a program that cleans all
the passwords off the machine.

Again, I'm assuming that the person (a human services type employee)
wasn't smart enough to change the bios password.\

If he did reset the bios password, I'm told there's a way to reset it on the
chip, but I've never done it or seen it done. If he reset it on the opening
Windows screen, I don't know. But I'm sure a Google search would give
you info on that.

The screen saver is a much easier fix.

Good luck with it.

To erase a BIOS password, you usually have to remove the battery from
the motherboard and reset some jumpers...

dam

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