window's password

[slingslingbinks]

i bought a used computer, compaq presero, with win 95, and it has a password in it to open window's. anyone have any clue's to disable/change it. or should i upgrade ti to win 98 2nd tks slingslingbinks

[reboot]

Boot to a floppy, change to c:\windows, and delete "*.pwl" (sans quotes)
Restart.

[slingslingbinks]

thank's jim, i made up a 95 start up disk off the computer. i'd never has a computer with win. 95 before. restarted up the computer with the floppy in the drive. and it came up with this in the screen. A:\> i typed in c:\windows and it say's bad comand or file name. ya got any more help thank's slingslingbinks

[GaryRouth]

From the A: prompt, you need to type C: and see if it will find your C: drive and give you the C: prompt. Then type dir to see if the /Windows directory is listed. If so, follow reboot's delete syntax and you should be OK. [You'd type cd \Windows to "change directory"]

I'd leave Win95 on there - maybe tune it up some. You don't want to mess with a Compaq's hard drive structure if you don't have to. There's bios information stored on a proprietary partition (on many of their older models anyway)

Best of luck
. . . Gary

[andyms18a]

when it asks you for the password hit esc and it will boot to desktop then search for the *.pwl file and delete it

[Hot Rod]

I would do the same as andyms18a. Boot up, click cancel on the password box and then when it finishes booting up, delete all of the .pwl files. Reboot. When it asks for a password, leave it blank and click OK. It shouldn't ask for it again after that.

[slingslingbinks]

thank's all of you after getting off work and checking out this computer i found out that it's full and out of room on the hard drive, i tried to remove some program's with out any luck. there are more program's on this computer than you can remove. so i decided to fdisk and format the hard drive and reinstall windows, so i did and i have all the room back and now it doesn't dectet the motum. so now i have to find the motum driver for it. thank's for all of your help, slingslingbinks

[Markoman01027]

With my old Compaq(750Mhz AMD Duron CPU) if you delete the second partition, you will NEVER be able to use the recovery disk anymore..So always keep the 2nd partition that Compaq there :)