Desktop Management

National Keyboard Delimiter Characters

Each keyboard is designed to meet country-specific requirements. The syntax and keys that you use for changing or deleting your password depend on the keyboard that came with your computer.

National Keyboard Delimiter Characters

Arabic

/

Greek

-

Russian

/

Belgian

=

Hebrew

.

Slovakian

-

BHCSY*

-

Hungarian

-

Spanish

-

Brazilian

/

Italian

-

Swedish/Finnish

/

Chinese

/

Japanese

/

Swiss

-

Czech

-

Korean

/

Taiwanese

/

Danish

-

Latin American

-

Thai

/

French

!

Norwegian

-

Turkish

.

French Canadian

é

Polish

-

U.S. English

/

German

-

Portuguese

-

 

 

* For Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, and Yugoslavia

Clearing Passwords

If you forget the password, you cannot access the computer. Refer to the Troubleshooting Guide on the Documentation and Diagnostics CD for instructions on clearing passwords.

If the system is equiped with an embedded security device, refer to the HP ProtectTools Security Manager Guide at www.hp.com.

3.5.4 DriveLock

DriveLock is an industry-standard security feature that prevents unauthorized access to the data on ATA hard drives. DriveLock has been implemented as an extension to Computer Setup. It is only available when hard drives that support the ATA Security command set are detected.

DriveLock is intended for HP customers for whom data security is the paramount concern. For such customers, the cost of the hard drive and the loss of the data stored on it is inconsequential when compared with the damage that could result from unauthorized access to its contents. In order to balance this level of security with the practical need to accommodate a forgotten password, the HP implementation of DriveLock employs a two-password security scheme. One password is intended to be set and used by a system administrator while the other is typically set and used by the end-user. There is no “back-door” that can be used to unlock the drive if both passwords are lost. Therefore, DriveLock is most safely used when the data contained on the hard drive is replicated on a corporate information system or is regularly backed up.

In the event that both DriveLock passwords are lost, the hard drive is rendered unusable. For users who do not fit the previously defined customer profile, this may be an unacceptable risk. For users who do fit the customer profile, it may be a tolerable risk given the nature of the data stored on the hard drive.

 

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