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Holly
A friend of mine's soon to be ex-husband put a poweron
password on her Dell laptop. She came to me for help
but, I don't know how to fix it. I can get into the BIOS
but I didn't find anything there. Someone suggested I
try booting from a floppy to get access to my hard drive
but it doesn't have a floppy drive. I have reset jumpers
on desktop units to fix this problem in the past but I
have never opened up a laptop and am afraid to do so.
Would removing the CMOS battery for a few minutes fix
this anyway? I am not a computer expert by anymeans.
The PC has Windows XP Professional. I hit Ctrl+Alt+del
2x to get to the admisistrator password hoping there
wasn't one, but there is. I heard there are free
utilities that can peel back the asterisks of passwords
but how can you run it if you cannot get into the
system? Someone please help!
password on her Dell laptop. She came to me for help
but, I don't know how to fix it. I can get into the BIOS
but I didn't find anything there. Someone suggested I
try booting from a floppy to get access to my hard drive
but it doesn't have a floppy drive. I have reset jumpers
on desktop units to fix this problem in the past but I
have never opened up a laptop and am afraid to do so.
Would removing the CMOS battery for a few minutes fix
this anyway? I am not a computer expert by anymeans.
The PC has Windows XP Professional. I hit Ctrl+Alt+del
2x to get to the admisistrator password hoping there
wasn't one, but there is. I heard there are free
utilities that can peel back the asterisks of passwords
but how can you run it if you cannot get into the
system? Someone please help!