On Wednesday 11 Dec 2002 10:35 pm, John wrote: > Thing is, does anybody know of > a way whereby the machine will not fully boot without the said password You could set a bios password - mine can lock the keyboard and mouse unti= l the=20 password is entered so the rest of the system carries on booting. --=20 Richard Revis You may obtain a copy of my key at http://key.revis.org