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by jparade 2 views

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I work for a school that has recently installed Fortres Security Interface. I have a problem with students booting to floppies and manipulating the autoexec.bat file to not load the Fortres program. I can not get into my BIOS to change the boot sequence. My BIOS password has been previously set. I looked for a jumper to remove BIOS password to no avail. Then, I tried removing the battery overnight. This also did not work. What can I do? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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by donaldsimpson.co.uk

Hi there,
Have you thought about adding it (your program) to the registry instead? You should be able to put it in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.
You could also add it to 'win.ini' using a 'run= myprog' line, though that couldalso be changed by booting to a floppy if you/they know where to look (I am assuming you are using 9x here, yeah?).

Hope that helps,
Donald

PS For the BIOS problem, more info would be useful, as you seem to have tried most thing apart from the (very long-shot) default password (that I happen to have a list of somewhere...).

by jparade

Thaks but it's already a part of my registry, and how they figured this out, I don't know.

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