User`s guide

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Keeping Your Files Safe
Supervisor-level passwords
blanks the screen. An instant password has no effect on an
optional serial mouse or trackball.
If you have not registered a user-level password, press
Enter to
unlock your system.
If you have registered a user-level password, type your password
and press
Enter. If you enter the password correctly, the computer
returns to where it was when you pressed the hot key.
Supervisor-level passwords
A supervisor-level password protects system settings by restricting
who can make changes in Toshiba Utilities and System Setup.
This is useful if more than one person is using the computer.
Setting a supervisor-level password
When a supervisor-level password is set, you must enter the
supervisor password to make changes using Toshiba Utilities or
System Setup.
There are two ways to set a supervisor-level password in
Windows® 2000.
NOTE: For setting a supervisor-level password in
Windows® 98SE, see “Supervisor-level passwords” on
page 246.
To set a supervisor-level password using the Toshiba Console:
1 Launch the Toshiba Console by pressing the TOSHIBA
Console button.
2 Click the Security button.
3 Double-click on the supervisor password and enter the
necessary information for the password.