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Help - I have an Insprion 8000 and I forgot my password to log onto system.
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Is this the windows password you are talking about?

While it is starting up keep tapping F8

you will get to a menu. choose "safe mode". Dont be worried if a whole load of text flows down the screen and it looks screwy. Click "administrator", login and delete your password. Then reboot back into normal mode.
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No, its not a WIndows' Password. its on boot up.
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Is this the windows password you are talking about?

While it is starting up keep tapping F8

you will get to a menu. choose "safe mode". Dont be worried if a whole load of text flows down the screen and it looks screwy. Click "administrator", login and delete your password. Then reboot back into normal mode.
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no, its not a windows' password. boot up password
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If its the bootup password then you are in trouble. On most desktop pcs you can disable this in two ways, either by removing the BIOS battery (looks like a watch battery, on the motherboard) or by setting some jumpers on the motherboard.

I dont know how you would do this on a laptop or if its even possible (i know that onesome buisness laptops like IBM thinkpads that if you forget the syatem password, thats it, you need a whole new motherboard or hard disk)
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Laptops have cmos batteries too.. simply take it out, and put it back in.
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or run kill CMOS if you can boot from a CD.

KILL CMOS
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He cant. Its a power on password and I advise against that program. It fried the motherboard on my compaq
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so it did KILL your CMOS? and here i thought it just re-wrote checksum headers...
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lol..
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