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have just received 2 tower jobbie pc's and 1 laptop,towers have no make or stickers that i can see lappy is an acer bout a year old with sticker on bottom ,all came from office relocation but all are password protected with previous users password ffs

is there a way round these or is it a case of putting em in a shop to get re-written or whatever they do? if this is case how much would it cost ish?

bolt would know this imo

Opening them up and removing the CMOS battery might work.

Google CMOS battery for pics of what they look like.

guess.

never give up.

try the old classic

password

you never know

have you tried plugging it in?

1 of the towers has a password hint dragon and yes i tried puff straight away

try st george and wales

Calling previous owners not an option or was Bolt involved in this transaction?

wife

don't forget to try capitalized and uncapitalised, and both versions with numbers at the end.

Were they damaged when they fell off the lorry?

At the login screen press ctrl-alt-del and login as admin with no password which works on many machines.

Sandy

you rob a few jewellery shops and a couple of post offices and you get branded for life  :(

You wouldnt have minded a piece of that Graff job

nope and nope


nope

ahem cough cough as stated in OP office relocation  ;)

You can use a product called called ERD (emergency recovery disc) by Winternals for pre vista machines. The latest versions may also do vista but not sure.
Basically you boot the pc with the ERD disc in the drive ensuring that boot from cd is enabled or by pressing F8 (i think). Once loaded there are a few tools which can be used one of them being a password changing tool.

if it has all the previous owners crap on it just get windows reinstalled.

It is sometimes possible to log in to the default administrator account, and then delete the passworded account. I haven't done it for some time, but from memory try starting the machines in safe mode (as soon as you power on the machine, start tapping the F8 key, then choose Safe Mode from the boot options menu). Once it boots into the operating system, go to the control panel > user accounts, you should be able to create a new administrator account with new passwords.

Not sure if once you've rebooted if you will be able to go back to the user account area and delete the original problem account, it's worth a try though.

OP reads like BIOS passwords to me BICBW.

If that is the case then removing the CMOS battery for a while would be worth a try, however, it may make the BIOS kick in with the default password instead - then you would have to find the motherboard manufacturers default password etc etc, hopefully not though!

I've never come across anyone using the BIOS passwords though, so never had to deal with this issue other than in theory.... pretty sure it can't be that hard to remedy.

this is what my m8 said then he said have you got original disc? I'm like yeah lol


will try this tom night CBA anymore 2nite


BIOS BICBW   WTF?

Does it chunder away, whirr, start Windows and then ask you for a password or does it ask almost immediately you turn it on in big 'ol text mode?

The latter would be a BIOS password which none of the other suggestions so far would help with.

But I Could Be Wrong.

Will this still work if there is a password on the Admin account? Not so sure myself. ;carlocitrone;

I'm not talking about a normal account that has admin privileges, I mean the hidden admin account.  But, if someone has gone to the lengths of changing that hidden admin account's password then it won't work.

But, if it does work (as I've just double checked on Kev's PC) you will be able to remove any other previous admin accounts.

Download ophcrack live cd.

This CD boots and just lists all passwords after a few minutes.

http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/download.php?type=livecd (http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/download.php?type=livecd)

I use it all the time when cleaning up virused PC's etc.

Dougie.

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

  :D

laptop up and running tried the obv password and it worked FTW.....................

pukka piece for a freebie only looks couple of months old

now pc's will have to wait.......

Best just to flatten it and reinstall anyway cia, especially if the original MS sticker is onboard.

Bet you just wanted to browse the HD for some readers wives action LOL

you need a copy of hirens boot disc. that will do the job. it has about 5 different password file mod tools on it.

i never leave hoime without it.


otherwise, whats the spec of the towers, and how much do you want for them :) ?

I thought you lived in Glasgow, have you moved ?

aye. thinking about aberdeen....know any good hotels ?

Hey Laz, check out ophcrack.

never seen that one before. can you boot into from usb or cd ?

Link on previous page, live CD for Xp and Vista. It's the business. For virus cleaning tasks, I boot from Win UBCD (Ulitmate Boot CD), then run up to-date sophos off a USB stick.

wow what some people are into............. but it's all man on man stuff

had to laugh at 1 point going through the history and in the middle of all the porn was this link

http://stitchnbitch.org/ (http://stitchnbitch.org/) 

what is best for long battery life,to keep power lead plugged in all the time or disconnectted when fully charged?

I think the advice generally is run it off the power lead when you can but let the battery run down completely every now and again

cool

when i fire the laptop up it comes up with a black HDD password screen to which i enter same password but its irritating any ideas how to get rid?

Think this is a bit of an urban myth.  I went thru 2 batteries on my laptop till I started removing them when on power cable.

You need to get into the bios setup to turn this off.

When booting try, ESC, DEL key, F1 or F2 etc, should tell you on initial power on what the bios access key is.

Dougie.

sorted ty