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Table 4. Security menu items (continued)
Menu item
Anti-Theft
Secure Boot
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User Guide
Submenu item
Computrace Module
Activation
Secure Boot
Platform Mode
Secure Boot Mode
Reset to Setup Mode
Restore Factory keys
Selection
• Disabled
• Enabled
• Permanently Disabled
• Disabled
• Enabled
• Setup Mode
• User Mode
• Standard Mode
• Custom Mode
• Yes
• No
• Yes
• No
Comments
Enable or disable the UEFI
BIOS interface to activate
the computrace module.
Computrace is an optional
monitoring service from
Absolute Software.
Note: If you set the
Computrace module
activation to Permanently
Disabled, you will be
unable to enable this
setting again.
Enable or disable the
UEFI Secure Boot feature.
Select Enable to prevent
unauthorized operating
systems from running at
boot time. Select Disabled
to allow any operating
systems to run at boot time.
Note: To enable Secure
Boot, you need to set the
startup setting as UEFI
Only and set CSM Support
as No.
Specify the system
operating mode.
Specify the system
operating mode.
This option is used to clear
the current platform key
and put the system into
Setup Mode. You can
install your own platform
key and customize the
Secure Boot signature
databases in Setup Mode.
Secure Boot mode will be
set to Custom Mode.
This option is used to
restore all keys and
certificates in Secure
Boot databases to factory
defaults. Any customized
Secure Boot settings
will be erased, and the
default platform key will be
re-established along with
the original signature
databases including
certificate for the Windows
8.1 operating system.
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