Acer C110 manual Setting a Password

Setting a Password

Follow these steps:

1.Use the cursor w/ykeys to highlight a Password parameter (Setup, Power-on or Hard Disk) and press the ekey. 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.

3.Press e. Retype the password to verify your first entry and press e.

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 press the ekey. The password box appears.

2.Enter the current password and press e.

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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