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Deleting a Power-On or Setup Password
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National Keyboard Delimiter Characters
Desktop Management Guide
If the system is equipped with an embedded security device, refer to
"Embedded Security" on page 30.
1. Turn on or restart the computer. If you are in Windows, click
Start > Shut Down > Restart the Computer. To delete the
setup password, run Computer Setup.
2. When the key icon appears, type the current password followed
by a slash (/) or alternate delimiter character as shown:
current password/
Enter
3. Press the
key.
Refer to
"National Keyboard Delimiter Characters"
about the alternate delimiter characters. The power-on password and
setup password may also be changed using the Security options in
Computer Setup.
Each keyboard is designed to meet country-specific requirements.
The syntax and keys that you use to change or delete the password
depend on the keyboard that came with the computer.
National Keyboard Delimiter Characters
Arabic
/
Belgian
=
BHCSY*
-
Brazilian
/
Chinese
/
Czech
-
Danish
-
French
!
French
é
Canadian
German
-
* For Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, and
Yugoslavia
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Greek
-
Hebrew
.
Hungarian
-
Italian
-
Japanese
/ Swiss
Korean
/ Taiwanese
Latin American
-
Norwegian
-
Polish
-
Portuguese
-
Desktop Management Guide
for information
Russian
/
Slovakian
-
Spanish
-
Swedish/Finnish
/
-
/
Thai
/
Turkish
.
U.K. English
/
U.S. English
/
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