Password bypass

Hi, I have been given a 'TINY' laptop, but when I turn it on, the first screen that appears is a password request. There is no option to press f10 for recovery like on my sisters, there is nothing but this box that comes up asking for the password. I believe the computer was on Windows XP. Please can anyone tell me how to by pass the password, there is absolutely nothing else on the machine, I turn it on, the word TINY comes up then immediately it goes straight to a blank page that has nothing but a password box in it. Any help would be appreciated. I asked in a shop but they wanted nearly £100 to put it right and I could buy another laptop for that! Please help, thanks Richard

If its a BIOS password yea, you pretty much have to remove the cmos and hope.
Sometimes certain models will have ways around this. You can call the manufacturer but they probably will not be very helpful unless you can give them some purchase information.

The initial assumption is to reformat it, but there are two steps to retrieve the password before
attempting to reformat or bring it to a service technician.
1. Built in password reset disk creation in XP and Vista. When you enable password for the

administrator in Vista or XP on the User Accounts, there is an option to create a password

reset disk which is designed for future use incase you forget it. This is one option if you created one.

But the truth is who creates one? maybe network administrators but not the common PC users.

2. If first option is not available to you,then you can search for a password boot disk which will disable the administrator

password. There are dozens of these types of programs but one program I recommend is windows password reset 6.0

http://www.resetwindowspassword.com

Download the iso file and burn it to a disk to create the boot disk, that simple.

Configure your pc or laptop to boot in the cd drive, insert the CD and it would boot then just disable the password and restart. Took about 5 minutes for the whole process.