<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.14.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> Hello Karl, I like this idea. Wow! Windows is not that secure if the mere diconnecting the battery erases the password. This is a good idea if it works. I am thinking that this would be a lot easier and quicker than the methods given to me to change the password. A very complex method. I would like to be able to copy to a disk the content of my e/m. I am clueless to the files' names and even location in the Ubuntu environment. Once I get the files safe and secure it won't matter if I blow away the current Ubuntu. It fact, it would be better since I can then go to the latest version. I think that I have a partition software program that would enable me to create a separate partition as was suggested. It might even be possible to re-do partitions using the Windows OS tools. A few suggestions have include going to the command line level. I have to figure out how to do that if I need to get there. As soon as I get a new version I am going to research on-line to find out the best reference book for Ubuntu. Thanks for this suggestion. Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Sat, 2009-20-06 at 05:52 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote: I seem to recall that if you disconnect the battery from your bios the windows password will die. Then you hook the battery back up and Vista will ask you for a new password. Hit Enter and you will have no password. Best. </BODY> </HTML>