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Admin Accounts All Locked Problem
Hello,
I have a laptop with Windows 7 installed on it. This machine is relatively locked down as well. Anyhow, today I was basically in a rush and I remember deleting a user which was no longer working at our company and then I shutdown.
When I started the machine up again I tried to go into the password protected bios to check some configurations and I tried several wrong passwords and gave up. At this point I restarted and waited for Windows 7 to boot up.
Once at the boot menu I tried to log in as always and it said my account was locked? Then I called the other admin into the room and he tried to login and it said his account was locked as well? How could this be?
At this point I am thinking their might have been something configured in the BIOS to locked the account but I do not know as I am not the one who initially configured the machine as this person is now gone.
So currently we are waiting to figure out what the BIOS password is but I dont understand how it could lock all the accounts up?
Perhaps someone here has some advice or tips as there is important data on this machine that we cannot loose.
Thanks in advance,
Joe