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Powering on Password in Bios

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by techiegirl1

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How do I put power on password in the bios so the machine won't load the OS until the password is entered.

Also, When I click on an attachment in my e-mail, it downloads correctly. But then the open with box open and says: Click the program youwant to use to open the the file with. Sometime the attachment is a photo and sometimes the attachment is text. Which program should I use?

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by ann777

1) Which bios do you have? Press F2 and enter into setup and look through all the menus for the Password options. Usually they are in the Advanced section.

2) If it is a *.jpg *.jpeg etc. then opewn the file with internet explorer (c:\program files\internet explorer\ etc. you need to find the actual program not a shortcut).
If the file is text, then open it with Notepad.exe
Generally double-clicking should open it up if the file associations are setup properly. (text files will probably work, graphic files are probably pointing to a internet explorer shortcut -- you need to file the actual program).

In order to better guide you we would need to know which version of windows you are using (for specific paths to setup file associations), and who your BIOS manufacturer is as well as the BIOS version.

by maxwell edison

Greetings,

On the password: Go into your BIOS (usually pressing the ?Delete? key upon power up), and there are TWO things to do. First there is a setting where you define whether the password is applicable to the "system" or "setup" This is usually located in the ?BIOS FEATURES SETUP? and the ?Security Option?. If you choose "setup" the user will be prompted for that password when he/she attempts to enter the BIOS. (I do this on all my machines, by the way.) If you choose "system" the password prompt will appear almost immediately upon turning the machine on (or restarting as well).

The second BIOS setting is the password itself. There is a BIOS category for the Password Setting

On the email attachment: You get that prompt when the attachment was created with a software that is not resident on your computer. Oftentimes, however, your "word" program will open other text documents even though they may have been created on different software. The same applies to picture files. So you?ll just have to know if the attachment is a text or picture document, and use the appropriate program to open it. Still, you may not be able to open it without the correct software.

Regards,

Maxwell

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