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A friend of mine has a Windows 7 HP laptop (one with fingerprint recognition which he used instead of a password).
He took it upon himself to take advantage of the Windows 10 free upgrade, at some point during the installation process it is prompting him for a password, which he doesn't have as he always used the fingerprint thing.
Any way round it? I told him I'd pop round later today and take a look, I've no idea other than buying a disc and doing a fresh install. Can you get the machine to boot up an alternative way to bypass it without a disc?
He's tried leaving it blank, typing in variants of password all with no joy. He is adamant is never had a password set up on it.
I've not fiddled about with a Windows machine this way for a couple of years now as I'm all Mac.
Any pointers?
Cheers
He took it upon himself to take advantage of the Windows 10 free upgrade, at some point during the installation process it is prompting him for a password, which he doesn't have as he always used the fingerprint thing.
Any way round it? I told him I'd pop round later today and take a look, I've no idea other than buying a disc and doing a fresh install. Can you get the machine to boot up an alternative way to bypass it without a disc?
He's tried leaving it blank, typing in variants of password all with no joy. He is adamant is never had a password set up on it.
I've not fiddled about with a Windows machine this way for a couple of years now as I'm all Mac.
Any pointers?
Cheers
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