Advice on removing a start-up password

[johnny]

http://computernetworkingnotes.com/xp-tips-and-trick/remove-administrator-password.html


On 08/09/2014 12:32 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 9 August 2014 18:23, Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know that this is not a Windows support forum but most of it relates to
>> using a Linux script, so bear with me if possible.
>>
>> I am trying to help a friend that fell prey to a phone scam involving her
>> Windows XP computer.  To make it a short story, she allowed the scammer to
>> remotely access her computer and he enabled the Syskey startup password that
>> Microsoft puts an every Windows machine.  The startup password is only for
>> high security computers and it prevents a user from booting the computer
>> unless a password is entered.
> You are describing 2 different things here.
>
> #1 is a startup password. This is set in the BIOS and prevents the
> computer being booted.
>
> You can only set this in the BIOS; you can't do it from inside Windows
> or by remote control.
>
> The other is a Windows login password. That is set in Windows and can
> be done by remote control.
>
> This is trivial to get round. I use Petter Nordgral-Haagen's boot disk
> to remove these. However, you can add a tool to Ubuntu to do it, as
> well. Lubuntu would work fine.
>
>