I am trying to help get access to an old DELL computer the owner has passed away and the computer has not been used for over 2 years.
the owner put on it a password to stop staff where he lived accessing his computer but he didn't tell anyone in his family what the password was, all possible or logical ones have now been tried'
I thought that maybe going into the setup we could bypass it in the setup under security it has the following

System Security:
Password status...unlocked
system passwork...not enabled
setup password....not enabled
POST Hotkeys..F2 & F12
Chassis Intrusion ..Detected
PXE BIS Default Policy...Deny

Is any one able to tell me if anything in this will help us get into the computer
No setup disks were found, just before he died it seems he had a big clean up and threw lots of disks out and all his 3"floppys as well.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
so you have to type a password before you are able to boot the PC normally? Or is this a password to get into windows? And what windows is this??

I am assuming the OS is some kind of windows OS.it is running Windows XP
loads the windows things then says and you have to hit alt control delete first then a password box opens up and that is the problem So you SEE something like what the following screenshots show?





in that case,

try this:
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There is a hidden administrator account. You can log on it and you can change or REMOVE all the other PASSES of your comp without knowing the previous passes. Just type ctrl alt del twice and then type Administrator on the account name and you can enter. If that won't work, restart the computer and toggle the F5 button.You will get screen that will ask you if you want to boot with command prompt, choose it and then type net user, then press enter
Then again type "Net user [Username of the Account]*" then press Enter, without the ["], and quotes. Make sure you spell the username correctly, and you have the '*'.
To change password press enter and after that follow the instructions that COME after to reset your password.