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by kazzbar

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I have a customer that set a screensaver password in win98se. The person forgot or misplaced the password. Do you know of anyway to change the password to a different one without the original. I tried deleting the *.pwl in windows subdirectory. Did not change this setting
Any help would be much appreciated

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by thechas

I had to do this once for "After Dark" on a 95 machine.

If memory serves my right, we booted into safe mode, and edited Win.ini to disable the screen saver password.

There are password cracker programs out there.
I think one is posted at www.aumha.org

by scott

If the screen save doesn't fire up on a fresh re-boot, simple right-click on desktop/click properties/and under screen saver, click change password (leave blank to disable password).

If the screen saver boots at start-up, you may need to enter safe mode and disable the auto-run of the screen saver. Then re-boot and do as above to disable screen saver.

Good Luck...
Scott@Gullys.com

by kazzbar

It is win98se screen saver. Where would auto-run be? I know in after market screen savers there is auto-run. But could not find in win98

by ann777

Before the screensaver kicks in, you can disable it or change it.

Just boot into win98se normally... control panel --> display --> screen saver and change it.

by kazzbar

On most systems I would agree. This version of win98se won't let you change it until you know what the previous password was. It asks you for the old password before you can enter any info on new password.

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