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Anyway to prevent user from changing system time/date?
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13/12/2003 10:27:41
 
 
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13/12/2003 08:45:50
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
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Cetin,

I get your drift... Man! This world is made of people trying to put a fast one over another!

Thanks



>>Am very curious on what you said about being easy to change system time even under XP/NT, if I restrict Change System Time policy and put a password on the CMOS bootup, how else can one change time?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Dennis
>
>Considering you left your box for a few minutes for my physical reach :
>-Would open the cover and clear CMOS with the help of a jumper or screwdriver
>-Go to setup and set the clock
>
>Well you'd understand something has happened as it wouldn't ask for password on power up but might also set a password when I went to setup and you'd go nuts seeing it doesn't accept your pw and probably would go to clearing CMOS yurself too :)
>PS: There are BIOSes that doesn't even need such a clearing of CMOS. They accept a special sequence of chars as pw whatever the actual pw is.
>And really how many setup a CMOS pw especially if the box is NT/XP:) I don't for example.
>Cetin
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