UAC - old compagny computer

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Hi, i bought a used computer on auction, but the computer comes from a worldwide compagny and there is this UAC username and password protections for everything, i can not login to the admin account and i can not install anything or change any settings before i enter UAC username and password, is there a workaround for this or would it help if i replace the HDD ? i can't even open a exe file and if i try to go into bios settings its ask for the username and password too. I have never seen this kind of protection before. and would hate to know that i wasted money on a pc that i can barely use for searching the web without all kind of crazy protection.
I am the right owner of the pc. i tried to call the compagny that used the pc before they upgraded to new ones. but there was not that much help, all they said was " well our it department always set this protection on the computers but we do not have the username and password for it." they than gave me a number for a it department in India, i called them but they wanted some kind of employ number, but i do not have that because i have never worked for them i just bought the cheap on a auction because they upgraded to chomebooks. Did i just throw away some money on buying those or is there some kind of a workaround so i can use those.

 

[johnb35]

You'll need to try resetting cmos to clear bios password and then install a fresh copy of windows.

 

[proxybullet]

You'll need to try resetting cmos to clear bios password and then install a fresh copy of windows.

yup, i got into bios, what i tried before was not the bios but some kind of a remote server connection. after getting into the hp bios settings i could see it was booting up from a remote server with windows. i installed a new hdd and installed my own windows now it's working like a charm and my son is happy to have his first pc without any restrictions thanks for the help anyway

 

[Okedokey]

Well done mate. Interesting someone sold a computer with active connections to another server. Not very secure.

 

[proxybullet]

Well done mate. Interesting someone sold a computer with active connections to another server. Not very secure.

nah i was surprised too, pretty stupid not to delete that. but than i know you somehow can make a computer boot from a remote windows, that is pretty cool and something i will look further into to

 

[Okedokey]

nah i was surprised too, pretty stupid not to delete that. but than i know you somehow can make a computer boot from a remote windows, that is pretty cool and something i will look further into to

Look into PXE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment

 

[Darren]

Well done mate. Interesting someone sold a computer with active connections to another server. Not very secure.

Yeah that's weird. I've seen BIOS passwords, BitLocker, encrypted drives, but never a PXE boot by default.