Supervisor Password; Starting The Computer By Password - Toshiba Libretto U100 User Manual

Power and Power-Up Modes
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After you set the password, a dialog box will be displayed asking
whether you want to save it to a floppy disk or other media. If you forget
the password, you can open the password file on another computer. Be
sure to keep the media in a safe place.
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When entering the character string to register the password, enter from
the keyboard character by character and do not enter as ASCII code or
copy-and-paste the character string. In addition, ensure that the
registered password is correct by outputting the character string to the
password file.
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Delete (button)
Click this button to delete a registered password. Before you can delete
a password, you must first enter the current password correctly.
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Change (button)
Click this button to change a registered password. Before you can
change a password, you must first enter the current password correctly.
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Owner String (text box)
You can use this box to associate text with the password. After you
enter text, click Apply or OK. At the time of a startup of a computer, this
text is displayed, when you can ask for the input of a password.

Supervisor password

To set a supervisor password, follow the steps below.
1. Click start.
2. Click Run.
3. Enter the following: C:\Program Files\Toshiba\Windows
Utilities\SVPWTool\TOSPU.EXE
If you set a supervisor password, some functions might be restricted when
a user logs on with the user password.
This utility lets you do the following:
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Register, delete or change the supervisor password.
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Specify restrictions for general users.

Starting the computer by password

To start up the computer with the user password, follow these steps:
1. Turn on the power as described in Chapter 3,
following message will appear in the LCD:
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At this point, the hotkeys FN + F1 to F9 do not work. They will function after
you enter the password.
2. Enter the password.
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