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Boot Passwords Cerebral Believer 12-21-2005
Posted by Cerebral Believer on December 21, 2005, 7:35 am
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Hi everyone,

I have a BIOS utility on my PC (accessible during start up by pressing "F1")
which allows me to set passwords, but for some reason the PC does not
require that a user enters any of these passwords every time the PC is
switched on, but rather only when a user enters the BIOS utility. My laptop
requres the BIOS password to be entered every time the computer starts up,
and I want my desktop PC to act in like manner. I have checked out the
product support helpline for my desktop PC and it seems (strangely) that the
BIOS passwords can not be set so that they are required on boot up.

Does anyone know of any programs that will impliment a power on/boot
password, or is there anything in Windows XP that will do the same?

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Regards,
CB.



Posted by Jim Watt on December 21, 2005, 8:09 am
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On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:35:54 GMT, "Cerebral Believer"

>
>I have a BIOS utility on my PC (accessible during start up by pressing "F1")
>which allows me to set passwords, but for some reason the PC does not
>require that a user enters any of these passwords every time the PC is
>switched on, but rather only when a user enters the BIOS utility.

many machines give you the option of protecting the machine -or-
just the BIOS settings in CMOS. Look more carefully at the options
connected with the password.

Its a useful security feature, but not high security unless you
lock the case.
--
Jim Watt
http://www.gibnet.com

Posted by Iuri Cuznetov on December 21, 2005, 8:13 am
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> I have checked out the product support helpline for my desktop PC and it
> seems (strangely) that the BIOS passwords can not be set so that they are
> required on boot up.

AFAIK, this thing will not work until your password is blank. Try to enter
your new password in BIOS (something like "Set Supervisor Password") and
somewhere in BIOS the parameter "Security" must be set to "Computer"



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