Imac went to screen with padlock asking for password after installing windows 7

passwords are not working and i dont know why this has hapened i have done the same instalation on 2 other mac's

my dear it's fixed.
the problem is that I did not hold down the alt option key so solution is just to hold down the alt option key for a while.
thanks for your response

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From 2008 MacRumors discussion:
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Thanks! I've resorted to doing this. It's a small annoyance of having to type out my username along with my password but at least I know for sure it's locked.
I actually played around with a few things and I thought I fixed it.
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