We're resuming the daily countdown of the ten most viewed questions and answers on  the BlackBerry section of the technology advice site Experts-Exchange. I believe this a good place to gage what imponderables are on the minds of BlackBerry users.

Today, I will spotlight the fourth-most viewed BlackBerry-related question asked on Experts-Exchange:

The question is "resetting a power-on password BB 7750."

Found a 7750 BB in a pile of IT JUNK that I was given," Joe Cistaro writes. "Is there a way to remove the Power - on - password so I can see if service is on this thing? 

Joe notes that he even tried the "paper-clip in reset hole," but apparently without results.

But as he does so often on Experts-Exchange, the all-knowing JConchie comes up with a solution.

"This is a little cumbersome, but will do the trick if a hard reset, using the reset hole doesn't do it," JConchie writes.

"Go to the RIM website....or the website of whatever provider you are thinking of using....download the latest Desktop Manager package and install it on a desktop," he adds.  "Then download the latest  hand held OS (probably 4.0) to the same desktop.  Hook the handheld up to the desktop and run the OS installer." 

JConchie correctly notes that performing this action will take you back to factory defaults with no power-on-password set.

Then Joe notes that after he ran the OS installer, and entered the wrong password 10 times, he was able to reclaim the factory default setting he needed.