Booting - bypass need to click Admin?

Upon booting my thinkpad, I want the desktop to display right away, instead of showing the fingerprint/Admin. interface first. Is this achievable?

My laptop was bought used, and it's OK, but I find the above time-wasting, since I like to just press the POWER button, then go into another room to do housework or whatever while the system takes its time to crank up. Then I come back into computer room & Desktop all ready to go.

Instead, annoyingly, I come back into the room, and there's another step awaiting, to click Admin. & wait yet again.

Thanks for any/all tips to resolve this!

 

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Check out this link, just follow the direction on the webpage.

 

Thanks - though are you sure this isn't something related to IBM, rather than Windows?

I just want to be sure, because I don't remember ever experiencing this with non-IBM computers I've had.

P.S. by the way, my system is Win XP.

UPDATE:
I just tried it (via about.com instructions for XP)
But when i Restarted, it gave a message stating:
Make sure user name & domain are correct then type password again.

So I clicked OK

which once again led me to the Fingerprint/Admin. Interface

...and I then needed to click Admin.
.....which translated into yet an extra step than I had before this

So back to Square One:
How to safely undo the above? And:
...are there any IBM/LENOVO instructions for bypassing this issue?

 

Please refer to my very recent posting today for background.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/lenovo-ibm/573053-booting-bypass-need-click-admin.html

At this point, here's what I tried:

Start Run
control uerpasswords2
OK
entered user name Admin / password
apply
OK

I had also chosen to reset my password & I typed my own password, then confirmed it by retyping it.

It was after that, that my system froze up at this point during Startup:

WINDOWS IS STARTING UP

(whereupon the system remains frozen at that point.
I needed to remove the battery - not just the AC. Nothing else worked to shut the display.

I'm in a cold sweat not knowing what to do!

I'm now back on my tiny 12" laptop which is full of trojans, in order to type this.

 

Update:
I needed to setup an S.O.S. post, because my system became frozen during trying to reset password. See:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/len...tem-froze-due-admin-password.html#post7427158

 

I'm desperate for help from a Thinkpad guru, since that's what this probably requires.

I suspect my system is now frozen at bootup because the password I entered via the Reset Password option when following About.Com's instructions for Auto Login to XP...
...differs from the Preset username/password which came with the laptop when received from seller.

It's frozen at:
WINDOWS IS STARTING UP (and doesn't proceed beyond that.

What I can't understand is why Lenovo never coordinated with XP, so that neither should give such potentially dangerous options to Reset,
unless they WARN as follows:
If you have a Lenovo system DO NOT RESET PASSWORD SINCE WINDOWS DOES NOT COORDINATE SYS-PASSWORDS WITH LENOVO

Or am I mistaken about this?

Is there any hope?
It started here - for background, please see:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/lenovo-ibm/573053-booting-bypass-need-click-admin.html

 

Read this (originally from here), it might save you some slack (an alternative is this). Worst case scenario is that you bricked a Thinkpad, you should have just uninstalled the fingerprint reader software in the Control Panel.

Edit: Boot in to Safe Mode with F3? or was it F8? during BIOS screen (it might help).

 

Worst case is pulling the drive out of the machine and popping it into an external USB enclosure to retrieve her personal docs, pics, music, etc. from another machine.

After that depending on the damage she's done, it might be a reinstall of the OS.

I seriously doubt the machine is bricked unless we are talking about BIOS passwords.

Judy, What model ThinkPad is this? You are using Windows XP not Windows 7?

 

I have no idea. But here's how I (a non-guru) would try to solve it:

1) Access the Safe Mode Boot options.

A description of the Safe Mode Boot options in Windows XP

2A) Choose Last Known Good Configuration. I've never had good luck with this option, but it's the one you start with. Add liberal amounts of hope.

2B) If Last Known Good Configuration is unsuccessful, repeat process and choose Safe Mode. If successful, attempt to remove Windows password and restart.

How To Remove Your Windows XP Password

Don

 

Judy, please stop making new threads for this problem.

 

Thanks SO much everyone. Sorry, for the past few days I was forced offline due to DSL line tech issues (outsourced personnel are the dregs & what a coincidence that all my disparate issues happened at once.

BTW, the thinkpad is an R52, Windows XP

I'll now read the above links/responses, which may take awhile, then decide which to tackle first, or whether to just travel by bus for an hour to the local geek squad. The bus travel is the pits - very tiring & unappetizing.

 

OK, I finally read my printouts of above-posted links, etc..
some relevant followups are:

(1) Safe Boot (F8) - what's the difference between the Last-known good config. option, - and the option to start Windows normally?
i.e. which would be the better bet?

(2) Is it possible to reset windows password via the Linux Mint Live CD? Since I do have the Linux Mint CD.

EXCEPT I HAVEN'T A CLUE WHAT PASSWORD TO USE.
AFTER ALL, THIS MESS STARTED BY CHOOSING THE XP OPTION TO RESET PASSWORD WHICH MAY BE CONFLICTING WITH THE PRESENT IBM PASSWORD!

I'D MUCH RATHER GET RID OF ALL PASSWORDS SOMEHOW SOME WAY.

(3) Re: the Tech-Trax article:
I happen to own a Win XP CD that's new/licensed (and never yet used), but it's a different CD than that which the refurb. seller had installed on the R52 thinkpad sold me.
BTW, the latter does have a COA.
Can my CD still be used on the R52 following the instructions in the article?

I'm thinking to try the above, in that same order (first #1, then #2 if possible, then #3.

The problem with #3, is that the Tech-Trax article doesn't specify what I need to repair. Like, I'm supposed to select whichever XP installation is "damaged" to repair it. How should I know what's damaged? It's not damaged. Rather, the mnemonic password I entered into the Reset option of XP is probably in conflict with the preset password which came with the Lenovo.

 

OK, first of all thanks again SO much for the tips, since they helped me get my problem resolved (even though I'm not quite sure what exactly did resolve it.

It's resolved to the extent that even the ridiculous Fingerprint+Admin screen has become dispensed with, and bootup goes directly to my desktop (as i want it to).

Here's what I did (more or less):

Each time screen became dark during bootup, I clicked F8.
Then chose Win-XP.

The first time around, it did not display the list which included "Last known good config." But another time I tried it, the list finally displayed.

So I finally got to click "Last know good configuration"

Followed the System Restore routine (Start, programs, accessories, tools)

...chose the April 27th date to restore my system to - BUT THIS TURNED OUT TO BE FOR NOTHING

......whereupon it TRIED rebooting to the April 27th configuration

HOWEVER:

I then heard that same heart-sinking beep I'd been hearing these past days

...whereupon:

2 Dialog Boxes as follows:

1st Dialog Box:

Logon to Windows
Grey-colored:
.... user-name: Admin ...... Password: @@@@@@@@

2nd Dialog Box:

The system could not log you on. Make sure your user name & domain are correct, then type your password again.

And then the stupid clickable ADMIN-chess-pieces icon displayed
....so I clicked it

Whereupon:

RESTORATION INCOMPLETE
Your computer cannot be restored to Wed. April 27. No changes have been made to your computer.

But then, upon clicking OK, the desktop displayed.

So I said - what the heck - I'll go to:
...CTRL-PANEL, USER-ACCOUNTS
......once there, I chose "change password"
...........then typed the SAME password I had used during that fatal Reset Password

...VOILA! for some reason which I cannot fathom, I'm up & running
(i.e. not only does it now boot up OK,
...but the icing-on-cake is that it now skips that nonsensical fingerprint-Admin. screen

UPDATE:

A new (sorta-lesser-albeit-still-annoying) development, cropped up. While, indeed, my bootup now displays the Desktop immediately, however, whenever my system becomes idle long enough to go into sleep-mode, I'm forced to click an ADMIN-ICON, then type in my mnemonic password. Does anyone here have an idea how to fix that, so that merely moving my mouse will get me back to where I left off?