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Disabling PadLock on startup
Name: nettechguy Date: March 1, 2007 at 11:54:16 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: 1.29g/768 ram Product: Gateway
Comment:
How can you stop the Padlock on a laptop from starting? I can hit the FN and F9 to turn it off but I know the laptop can start with this feature off since we have 100's and this is the only one that starts with the padlock on.
Name: MANNY GOMEZ Date: March 1, 2007 at 12:13:51 Pacific
Reply:
maybe msconfig might help if you know the launch command. just disable it
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Response Number 2
Name: DWeiner Date: March 13, 2007 at 08:48:35 Pacific
Reply:
Hi, My Gateway laptop just started to do that, but only in one account (the admin account). I get the feeling that the solution is in the registry, but I can't find it. Other problems with that account are that the customizations don't "stick" anymore. I think that that may indicate registry corruption, but the MS registry fixer doesn't do anything for me. I'll keep looking. I'd hate to have to do a reinstall or even a repair install, but it may be the only way. DWeiner
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