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Lost windows password?
My continued login problem. Turns out my notebook has some pre-boot bios software named "Insyde Software SCU" the company is located in Ma. The password login comes on even before the memory boot and looks like a dos-type login. I tried taking out the hard-drive and hoping it...- winfix
- Post #9
- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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Lost windows password?
TigerFlight, I did what you suggested but being a novice DOS user I have a couple of questions. 1. How do I boot up my machine right into DOS 2. When I find the "dir/s *.pwl how do I delete the pwl in dos. Thanks for your help- winfix
- Post #7
- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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Win 98 Lost Startup Password
I just purchased a 2-year old HP Pavillon Notebook from a local computer surplus store and have a major problem. when I boot the machine up the first thing it asks me for is a password and this not being my computer I dont have the password. It is running win 98 with an AMD K6 I can't do a...- winfix
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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Windows 98 Logon
I just purchased a 2 year old HP Pavillon notebook from a local computer surplus store. On boot-up it is asking me for a password. Of course this not being my computer I don't have the password and I cannot get pass this screen to do anything. Please help................- winfix
- Post #4
- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
