The boot-up password is still located in the BIOS ... it's totally independent of the operating system being used. Depending on what BIOS you're using, hit the proper key (it normally will tell you on boot-up) and look through the various pages (usually under something like 'advanced') for both...
the saga continues ... I booted to the command prompt, renamed explorer and ntdll, and installed the known good ones from SP1 ... same result on the second invocation of explorer ... memory could not be read, etc. For you assembler language gurus out there, ntdll goes to execute interrupt 2E...
Well ... a couple of things here ... first, this is a problem specific to explorer.exe/ntdll.dll ... access violations can happen for any number of reasons ... second, explorer.exe is a packed file (although ntdll.dll is not) ... and there is a slight problem copying it ... it's in use by...
1 gig PIII, 256 meg ram, SP2+hotfixes level
When I open explorer.exe I receive the following:
Application popup: Explorer.EXE - Application Error : The instruction at "0xnnnnnnnn" referenced memory at "0xnnnnnnnn". The memory could not be "read".
The nnnnnnnn...
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