Changing Your Password
- Enable you to change the active password. The default is
no password.
- Remember your password!!! Write it
down somewhere!!! Ask yourself: Do I really need to
set a password to access my system and/or the BIOS? (is
your brother / sister / kid / employee / colleague that dangerous?)
If security is of some minor concern to you, disabled
recommended. Why not only password protect (or
encrypt) some critical files (personal finances - things
the IRS should not see, juicy love letters, pornographic images
(the thing that Internet is most used for), customer
information databases, etc...)? If you lose your
password, you will have to erase your CMOS memory
(see the FAQ). Some systems
allow you to choose when the password is needed to change
the CMOS settings, to boot the machine, etc.