Managing Your System; Acer Edatasecurity Management - Acer Aspire iDea 510 User Manual

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Managing your system

This chapter describes how to use the Acer Empowering Technology utilities.

Acer eDataSecurity Management

(for selected models)
Acer eDataSecurity Management is a handy file encryption utility that protects
your files from being accessed by unauthorized persons. It is conveniently
integrated with Windows Explorer as a shell extension for quick and easy data
encryption/decryption and also supports on-the-fly file encryption for MSN
Messenger and Microsoft Outlook.
The Acer eDataSecurity Management setup wizard will prompt you for a
supervisor password and default encryption. This encryption will be used to
encrypt files by default, or you can choose to enter your own file-specific
password when encrypting a file.
Note: The password used to encrypt a file is the unique key that the system
needs to decrypt it. If you lose the password, the supervisor password is the
only other key capable of decrypting the file. If you lose both passwords,
there will be no way to decrypt your encrypted file! Be sure to safeguard
all related passwords!
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