I Can’t Change My Boot Order I Think It Is Locked By Administ

When I search using: “Setup Lock” there are a few “hits” for a Dell Optiplex (desktop) model, and many for the Dell Vostro laptop series, many of which have it mentioned only in a list of fixes for a bios update for Astro 3300.
I looked at several pages of “hits” – no Latitude models seen.

Lots of desktop mboard bioses have the capability of using a password to lock the bios Setup settings, but in most if not all cases, it’s easy to remove the passwords by simply removing the mboard battery, or by moving a clear cmos jumper, or a clear passwords jumper to the clear position,, or by shorting certain contacts that accomplishes the same thing as moving a jumper to the clear position.
None of those methods clear passwords on modern (less than about 13 years old) laptops.

Obviously I wasn’t aware that you can lock the settings in the bios of certain laptops yet be able to access Setup.
Most (up until this subject I would had said All) laptops have only the options to set a system access password – you must provide it in order to access the computer at all – and/or a hard drive access password – you must provide it in order to use the hard drive – and/or a bios access password – you must provide it in order to access the bios Setup.

He hasn’t mentioned being prompted for a password.