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John
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29th Jun 10 at 14:31   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Has anybody used this on the latitudes?

Unless I'm doing something really stupid it looks like it lets you set up a password using control point, inside windows, that consists of special characters, $ ! etc, but when you restart to make it take effect you can't enter special characters in the pre boot screen
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29th Jun 10 at 17:10   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I tried and had the same issue as you

What model are you using? We just use bitlocker now
John
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It's on an E6400.

Wave systems have confirmed that it doesn't support special characters.

Why the fuck would they let you use that as a password if it won't work when you reboot

How on earth does it work integrated with windows logon when nearly everywhere will have password policies, what a stupid idea.
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Ahh... We skipped the E6400's and moved straight onto the E6410's!

I don't like all this intergrated Dell bollocks, stick to making good laptops, not Dell LatitudeON and shit like this!

[Edited on 30-06-2010 by pow]
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Eventually found out you can get a recovery disc that lets you unlock it, using the special character password, why can they not have that built in as standard.

I can't believe how stupid that is.

 
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