p293

At one time the IT group gave out Admin more easily. Those days are over, they want you to use the apps you have, no need to give admin anymore.........

Hi- My company replaced my laptop with a new Dell model. My old laptop came with Guardianedge hard drive encryption but allowed 3 logins prior to 30 hr encryption to install, so I used Hiren's bootCD, to reset Local machine Admin password no issues. Once the encryption completed, I had already blanked the local Admin account no prob! The new laptop, came with Guardianedge already installed, Hiren's sees nothing. The OS is one of the Vista enterprise flavors. I can now only login with limited privileges in my own account. Q1: From power up there once I enter the Guardian pw, there is a 7-10 sec pause of black screen until windows login screen occurs. Is there a tool that can work in that 7-10 sec window? Q2: The LAN admin pw is I see IT staff punch about 6-7 characters thats it...(PW rules: one number, two non text like "%") Any tool a newbie could use that wont take 27 hrs? thanks in advance p293 (real newbie)