I recently purchased a IBM 760E Laptop off EBay. Just to play around i set a start-up password. I know that one but i also set a supervisor password and i think i know it but the keys are so close it is possible that it is something else.

Anyway what i want to know is how to remove both passwords so that i don't have to enter a password at start-up.

Please help soon!!!
thomas_g

PS> this laptop is going to be my dads soon. he bought a IBM 760XL off EBay and it has a little more than he needs so hes gonna give it to me and doesn't want any pw's on my laptop.

Assuming that this isn't a BIOS password, you can change or remove passwords in the Control Panel. For Windows 95 through Windows ME:

Start/Settings/Control Panel
or (depending on the Operating System)
Start/Control Panel

Open the Password utility. Click "Change Password". Type in the old password, but don't put anything in the new password, just leave it blank. Click OK on it.

For Windows XP use the "User Accounts" utility in Control Panel. Open the user account and then "Change Password" option. Again, type in the old password, but leave the new one blank.

If this password was a BIOS password, you will have to open the BIOS and make the change there in the Security section.

This is a link to IBM and their pages on the IBM 760 E.

IBM Support

I hope something here helps!

Dwight

[This message was edited by Dwight on 07-27-03 at 08:29 PM.]

this is a bios password

Do you remeber how to enter the BIOS? You will have to change the password there.

Thanks Dwight for pointing me to IBM's website. All i had to do is dig a little deeper into IBM's archive of info for my model and I found an online user guide that explained how to do this.