XP Help...?

My son got a laptop for x-mas but his older brother hacks into it with the F8 trick to bypass the windows password. Is there a way to put a password in the bios? Will that lock the pc from someone that doesn't know the password?
What can I do ?

any useful DUMMY instructions??

U can trick the "f8 trick' email me and I show U how to do that. this way U son can't use the f8 trick anymore.

yes
you've to set passeword from bios

f8 starts computer in safe mode . take the batteriess and power cord and hide some where . Or come on mom smack him on the *** and ground him

Can't get much more dummy than remove batterie and discipline your kid. all the experts with password ideas,safe mode will by pass the password.If you can't figure anything out just give it to the older kid .He runs the house anyway.

You need to set a password to the bios and admin account.

Usually the admin account is left without a password, and the bios is so that they don't change your boot setting to load a os off a floppy or cd to copy your password from your drive.

But since your older son pretty much has physical access to the laptop nothing can really be done except to stop the older brother?

Yes you can

But there is a program out that you can password you windows so you can not get in to it .. I can't remember what it is called now

simple,enter the set up and do this.

there is only one method.. first tell your elder son not to do it..If he does not hear you lock him up in the bath room..thats the only thing that you can do..If this is not working go to the terrace and drop the laptop from there..The problem is over rite

Well in the cmos you can put a password into it and that will lock him out of it make sure you use a capital and then a lower case it will make it harder to hack