just a note for those of you that like to take software off old er recovery disks or have had a recovery program fail and you had to extract yank and pull those little software, driver files, .dll’s etc.
and ran into

"FILES ARE PASSWORD PROTECTED"

try these little tidbit’s….
Note on passwords for encrypted *.ZIP and all files on Aptiva CDs:
Password = magic
2144/2168 Axx and Mxx, 2134, 2176, 2159, 2161, 2162,
2140, 2142, 2136, 2137, 2138, 2139 and 2153
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Password = xwbdbgmlbu
2156, 2158, 2163, 2164, 2170, 2171 and 2172
(Recovery CD)
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Password = ibm123pw
2170, 2171 and 2172 (Software Selections CD) AW
just happened to be stumbleing around and found this