Recent content by jerH

Understood...not looking to bypass the password. More interested in figuring out how to wipe the system. Owner hasn't used it in years and says there's nothing on it that needs saving...

In a bind... My laptop is broken...can be repaired but part has to be ordered and is going to take time. In the meantime, a friend offered me her old HP Pavilion Entertainment PC laptop. Two issues: The LCD is broken...can't really make out anything She can't remember her password If it...

Hence the desire to find a benchmarking program that doesn't have to be "installed"... i.e. it's a single executable file that can be run as-is without the need to copy files all over the place and make registry entries. For example, the program for the great internet mersenne prime search has...

30-35...I haven't actually counted yet. My boss wants to do this within our office first, and then apply the same methodology at a higher level where we're talking 200-250...

That would be too easy. After 4+ re-organizations, a revolving door of IT purchase managers, and years of "no refresh" followed by "we've got end of year money that we have to spend spend spend...buy computers!" there is no continuity at all. We've got desktops, we've got laptops. We've got...

I work for a government organization, so by definition our IT policies are atrocious. My office has a mix of computer hardware, purchased over many years, rarely upgraded, etc. My boss has asked me to help prioritize people for tech refresh. The most objective way I could think of was to have...