Passwords - ThinkPad Z61e Hardware Maintenance Manual

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4. You will then be prompted to restart the computer. Select Yes. A warning
5. Windows setup continues on the desktop and DOS window for the system

Passwords

As many as three passwords may be needed for any ThinkPad computer: the
power-on password (POP), the hard-disk password (HDP), and the supervisor
password (SVP).
If any of these passwords has been set, a prompt for it appears on the screen
whenever the computer is turned on. The computer does not start until the
password is entered.
Exception: If only an SVP is installed, the password prompt does not appear when
Power-on password:
A power-on password (POP) protects the system from being powered on by an
unauthorized person. The password must be entered before an operating system
can be booted.
Hard-disk password:
There are two hard-disk passwords (HDPs):
v User HDP—for the user
v Master HDP—for the system administrator, who can use it to get access to the
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MT 0672, 0673, 0674, 9450, 9451, 9452, and 9453
A total progress bar allows you to audit this process, which will take about 8
minutes. The final recovery CD may be safely removed during this time, but
may also be left in the optical drive since it is not bootable.
window appears, giving you one last chance to stop the restart, but disappears
automatically after about 5 seconds. File processing continues in DOS full
screen mode for about two minutes and the computer restarts to the Windows
desktop. No user intervention is required (and should be avoided) after this
point.
setup, with progress measured by a Factory Preinstallation window on the right
side of the screen.
The processes updating installed drivers, optimizing shell, customizing shell
settings, customizing power settings, ins here are: Waiting for plug and play to
finish, updating installed drivers, optimizing shell, customizing shell settings,
customizing power settings, installing applications, recording OEM application
preferences, and launching Sysprep.
A warning that antivirus software is not installed appears repeatedly in the
system tray, but this should be ignored.
The entire process at desktop takes about 25 minutes. Then the computer
restarts, does some more DOS full screen processing, and restarts again to a
Windows desktop where factory preinstallation continues for about 12 more
minutes, another restart to a DOS screen and then back to the Windows splash
screen and back to the desktop for more preinstallation.
This lasts about 10 more minutes and the computer restarts to do NTFS
conversion and then restarts to the OOBE (Out of Box Experience)
environment.
the operating system is booted.
hard disk even if the user has changed the user HDP