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| 1418502 | 2016-04-01 22:35:00 | My Niece had the unfortunate experience of W10 installing itself on her Dell W7 Laptop. Originally she had a BIOS password which was disabled. Somehow W10 has enabled the BIOS password, she has forgotten what it was! Is there any simple way of disabling the BIOS password other than to dismantle the laptop to remove the Coin battery? | mzee (3324) | ||
| 1418503 | 2016-04-01 23:03:00 | Bottom of the Page www.dell.com (www.dell.com) Even then it may still not work. Places like Dell wont be to keen on giving out their override passwords. Saying that What model of Dell laptop ? |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1418504 | 2016-04-01 23:39:00 | Sounds like Windows 10 fast startup which you may want to turn off so it cant play with your BIOS. Am not behind Win10 to give you that method at thd moment. When you logged into Windows, reboot then try to enter the BIOS, sometimes at this point Win10 reverts BIOS changes, if it still asks for password, your best bet would be to take the coin battery out, or worse case scenario for dells is short the bios chip. Cheers, KK |
Kame (312) | ||
| 1418505 | 2016-04-01 23:53:00 | Turning Off fast boot may or may not help, it does stop a lot of actual booting problems though :) This Article - fast-startup-turn-off-windows-10 (www.tenforums.com) Shows how. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1418506 | 2016-04-02 00:17:00 | Apparently the Dell Laptops will not disable the Bios password by removing the coin battery. Only clears the other settings. I have to submit the service number, if its still there, to Dell who will ask for proof of ownership, then send me a master key for that particular computer. I havn't got the computer yet, so I am not sure that W10 did install or just made a horrible mess. |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 1418507 | 2016-04-02 03:54:00 | I have been looking at the Dell Inspiron laptop. The password was not a BIOS password, it was a Windows admin password, so no problem. Windows 10 is installed. There is a problem in that there is no choice of boot order in the BIOS. The only drive listed is the hard drive. No optical drive or USB. I intend to revert to W7 after I have made backups of data files. I can not boot from the DVD, so how effective is the restore from Windows.old, and how do you do it? If this changes the Boot options I will then be able to do a clean install. I have disabled the Quick Boot | mzee (3324) | ||
| 1418508 | 2016-04-02 04:31:00 | I have been looking at the Dell Inspiron laptop. The password was not a BIOS password, it was a Windows admin password, so no problem. Windows 10 is installed. There is a problem in that there is no choice of boot order in the BIOS. The only drive listed is the hard drive. No optical drive or USB. I intend to revert to W7 after I have made backups of data files. I can not boot from the DVD, so how effective is the restore from Windows.old, and how do you do it? If this changes the Boot options I will then be able to do a clean install. I have disabled the Quick Boot What you may find is if W10 installed and is booting OK, then by manually running the updates it will automatically, usually install the correct drivers for the hardware ( ESP default Optical Drive). This is where a high percentage of people fall flat, they don't release updates are running, and then wonder why their computer is running bad /slow. BUT the restore back to w7 -- Easy :D In the search, next to the start button, type in Recovery 7076 Open the option as shown, Look at the picture below, about HERE will be the option to roll back to The previous OS as long as its done before 30 days of upgrading. 7077 NOW if at any time you want to reinstall Windows 10, the hardware is already activated, so it wont need a product key. If you wanted to reinstall W7 then you'll still need the product key, reinstall etc. Cheers: ( as you may guess its drink o'clock time) :D 7078 |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1418509 | 2016-04-02 06:23:00 | Would you believe it used to have W8.1 in it, not W7. It now has W10 Home. I sometimes wonder what sort of person uses a computer for a couple of years without knowing what the OS is! Backing up data files now, will then restore to W8. If Bios comes right I may do a clean install of W8 or W7 as it is full of rubbish & Malware etc, slow as an old PC :) |
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