Acer TravelMate C110 Service Manual page 48

Setting a Password
Follow these steps:
1. Use the cursor
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the key. The password box appears:
2. Type a password. The password may consist of up to eight characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9).
IMPORTANT:Be very careful when typing your password because the characters do not appear on the screen.
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3. Press . Retype the password to verify your first entry and press
4. After setting the password, the computer automatically sets the chosen password parameter to Present.
Removing a Password
Should you want to remove a password, do the following:
1. Use the cursor up/ down keys to highlight a password parameter (Setup, Power-on or Hard Disk) and
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press the
2. Enter the current password and press
3. Press Enter twice without entering anything in the new field and confirm password fields to remove the
existing password.
NOTE: When you want to remove the Hard Disk (or 2nd Hard Disk) password, you are prompted for the
current Hard Disk password before it is removed.
Changing a Password
To change a password, follow these steps:
Remove the current password. See "Removing a Password" on page 40.
Set a new password. See "Setting a Password" on page 44.
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/ keys to highlight a Password parameter (Setup, Power-on or Hard Disk) and press
key. The password box appears.
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