HP Dc7900 BIOS Flash Q&A White Paper - Page 10

What are the steps necessary to execute the HPQPwsd utility? The HPQPswd application is executed in the Windows environment by selecting the HPQPswd.exe file. The initial HPQFlash application window will be presented as follows options to the user or administrator. As indicated in the image, this utility will create an encrypted password file required to execute the HPQFlash application in a silent mode on an administrative/setup password protected PC. HPQPswd utility is an application which allows the user (typically a system administrator) to create an encrypted password file which can be used with the /p option of the HPQFlash application. This option is usually used along with the /s option to perform a silent mode update of a PC BIOS on Hewlett-Packard computers which have a BIOS 10