Hi everyone!!

[cyber-sibes]

Good luck with the job, Donna, it sounds like something you would really enjoy. And congrats on getting the new computer together!

[G535]

If it's a Toshiba laptop then holding down the left shift key while booting will bypass the BIOS password. Let me know if it's another brand and I'll try and find the work around for it. I get these jobs all the time, people buy pcs and laptops from auctions and don't find out until they arrive that the thing is locked up with a password.

[moosmom]

G535,

The window "Microsoft Professional 2000" comes up with "Administrator" in the screen name, and it asks for a password, which neither my brother nor I have. If you can figure out how to bypass it, great!!! I'd really appreciate it.

My roommate Mark said he'd take it to his computer guy to try and break it the code. But if you can do it, all the better!!

It's a Dell Spherion laptop. I'm going to my friend's office tomorrow to pick up a hard drive. Hopefully I'll be able to plug it in a go from there.

I really miss not being able to job search every day.

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Good luck job hunting!

[Zippy]

That pet suppiles job sounds really nice hope you get!

[G535]

For Win 2000 you'll need to boot with a boot disk, find the winnt\system32\config folder and rename the SAM file to SAM1 and it'll reset the password to blank. The other alternative involves putting the hard drive in another machine and accessing it from there but that's not really practical with a laptop.