Many of the machines I work with in my job are public machines (in the
library for example), and I have found a fairly decent solution to prevent
users from changing things once inside of Windows. The machines are more or
less protected from booting from A: by setting the boot sequence inside the
bios setup.

What I need is a way to prevent users form getting into the bios during the
POST. I've experimented with the bios password protection, but that causes
the machine to need a password entered before it will bootup at all.

What I want is some way to set a password for *entering* the bios/cmos
setup, but to not need a password to enable a boot or reboot.

That's about as clear as mud. Let me try again- I want to password protect
the bios, but not have to enter a password to do a normal boot.

Anybody know of an answer for this?


Thanks-
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Rick Lindstrom
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Tallahassee, FL. USA
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