Intel Management Engine; Startup folder.

Hard to find the previous thread, so started a new one to keep you up to
date. Also at the end is stuff about the startup folder.

I've been trying to get into my Intel Management Engine BIOS Extension,
and I used the password that, I think, Paul told me, admin

and it worked except then it told me to change the password before
proceeding, so I tried my usual stupid passwords, like windo etc.
and it rejected them. That was the word it used, rejected. I feel so
rejected.

So I googled the message and found a page that recommended
something like Me!Admin!100. so if you're ever in my house, you can
probably break into my BIOS extension with that.

He also cited this
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_...logy_%28AMT%29
which said these are the rules, guidelines for the Intel(R) ME strong
password:
Comprise 8 to 32 characters
including both upper and lower case characters
including at least one numeric character
including at least one ASCII non-alphanumeric character (!, @,
#, $, %, ^, &, *)
So that's what I'll do.


STARTUP FOLDER
The page above is called Intel Active Management Technology (AMT), and
that reminded me that one of my startup programs is

Intel\AMT\atchk.exe

Now that couldn't be a coincidence. So I suspect maybe I can't remove
that from the startup folder. OTOH, maybe it's what implements those
orders from the central control person, and since there won't be any,
maybe I can remove it?

Just yesterday I was trying, with little success, to find out what it
was.

And how did PowerDVD DX\PDVDDXsrv.exe get into my startup folder when it
wasn't there two days ago, and I haven't done anything with the CD/DVD
drive since then????

micky wrote:
Hard to find the previous thread, so started a new one to keep you up to
date. Also at the end is stuff about the startup folder.

I've been trying to get into my Intel Management Engine BIOS Extension,
and I used the password that, I think, Paul told me, admin

and it worked except then it told me to change the password before
proceeding, so I tried my usual stupid passwords, like windo etc.
and it rejected them. That was the word it used, rejected. I feel so
rejected.

So I googled the message and found a page that recommended
something like Me!Admin!100. so if you're ever in my house, you can
probably break into my BIOS extension with that.

He also cited this
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_...logy_%28AMT%29
which said these are the rules, guidelines for the Intel(R) ME strong
password:
Comprise 8 to 32 characters
including both upper and lower case characters
including at least one numeric character
including at least one ASCII non-alphanumeric character (!, @,
#, $, %, ^, &, *)
So that's what I'll do.


STARTUP FOLDER
The page above is called Intel Active Management Technology (AMT), and
that reminded me that one of my startup programs is

Intel\AMT\atchk.exe

Now that couldn't be a coincidence. So I suspect maybe I can't remove
that from the startup folder. OTOH, maybe it's what implements those
orders from the central control person, and since there won't be any,
maybe I can remove it?

Just yesterday I was trying, with little success, to find out what it
was.

And how did PowerDVD DX\PDVDDXsrv.exe get into my startup folder when it
wasn't there two days ago, and I haven't done anything with the CD/DVD
drive since then????


Here is a reference to "atchk.exe".

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blo...fication-popup

Delving into AMT stuff, is an "infinite buffet". There
is endless reading to do.

Paul

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 19 Jan 2017 04:09:34 -0500, Paul
wrote:

micky wrote:
Hard to find the previous thread, so started a new one to keep you up to
date. Also at the end is stuff about the startup folder.

I've been trying to get into my Intel Management Engine BIOS Extension,
and I used the password that, I think, Paul told me, admin

and it worked except then it told me to change the password before
proceeding, so I tried my usual stupid passwords, like windo etc.
and it rejected them. That was the word it used, rejected. I feel so
rejected.

So I googled the message and found a page that recommended
something like Me!Admin!100. so if you're ever in my house, you can
probably break into my BIOS extension with that.

He also cited this
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_...logy_%28AMT%29
which said these are the rules, guidelines for the Intel(R) ME strong
password:
Comprise 8 to 32 characters
including both upper and lower case characters
including at least one numeric character
including at least one ASCII non-alphanumeric character (!, @,
#, $, %, ^, &, *)
So that's what I'll do.


STARTUP FOLDER
The page above is called Intel Active Management Technology (AMT), and
that reminded me that one of my startup programs is

Intel\AMT\atchk.exe

Now that couldn't be a coincidence. So I suspect maybe I can't remove
that from the startup folder. OTOH, maybe it's what implements those
orders from the central control person, and since there won't be any,
maybe I can remove it?

Just yesterday I was trying, with little success, to find out what it
was.

And how did PowerDVD DX\PDVDDXsrv.exe get into my startup folder when it
wasn't there two days ago, and I haven't done anything with the CD/DVD
drive since then????


Here is a reference to "atchk.exe".

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blo...fication-popup

Thanks.

Delving into AMT stuff, is an "infinite buffet". There
is endless reading to do.

Paul

Just what I need!

I finally got into the settings a little bit ago and these are they.

ME state control -- enabled
ME Firware local update quualifier -- Always Open
ME Feature control , Manageability feature section: ASF
ME Power control, On in host sleep states
On in S0, ME WoL in S3, S4-S5.


I'll probably be the last one to see them because whoever gets this
computer after me probably won't get the new password I set, even though
I suppose I'll stick a note inside the case. (where it won't interfere
with cooling, maybe on the cover. )