•Anti-Theft:EnableordisableUEFIBIOSinterfacetoactivateAnti-Theftservices,suchasIntelATand
Computrace.
Tosetpasswordrelatedfunctions,gototheSecuritymenuandselectPassword.Thefollowingsubmenuis
displayed:
•HardwarePasswordManager
•SupervisorPassword
•LockUEFIBIOSSettings
•SetMinimumLength
•Passwordatunattendedboot
•Passwordatrestart
•Power-OnPassword
•HardDiskxPassword
Notes:
•HardDisk1meanstheharddiskdrivebuiltintoyourcomputer.
•HardDisk2appearsonthePasswordsubmenuonlyifaharddiskdriveisinstalledintheserialUltrabay
enhanced.
Note:Youcaninstalla9.5-mm-thickserialUltrabayslimora12.7-mm-thickserialUltrabayenhanced
deviceintheserialUltrabayenhanced.
IfyouselectandenableHardwarePasswordManager,youcanmanageyourpower-onpassword,
supervisorpassword,andyourharddiskpasswordsbythemanagementserver.Bydefault,thisisset
toEnabled.
LockUEFIBIOSSettingsenablesordisablesthefunctionthatprotectsitemsintheThinkPadSetupfrom
beingchangedbyauserwhodoesnothavethesupervisorpassword.Bydefault,thisissettoDisabled.
Ifyousetthesupervisorpasswordandenablethisfunction,noonebutyoucanchangeanyitemsinthe
ThinkPadSetup.
IfyouselectSetMinimumLength,youcanspecifyaminimumlengthforpower-onpasswordsandhard
diskpasswords.Bydefault,thisissettoDisabled.Ifyousetthesupervisorpasswordandspecifya
minimumlengthforpasswords,noonebutyoucanchangethelength.
IfyouselectandenablePasswordatunattendedboot,apasswordpromptisdisplayedwhenthecomputer
isturnedon,fromeitherapower-offstateorhibernation,byanunattendedeventsuchasWakeonLAN.If
youselectDisabled,nopasswordpromptisdisplayed;thecomputergoesaheadandloadstheoperating
system.Topreventunauthorizedaccess,settheuserauthenticationontheoperatingsystem.
IfyouselectandenablePasswordatrestart,apasswordpromptisdisplayedwhenyourestartthe
computer.IfyouselectDisabled,nopasswordpromptisdisplayed;thecomputergoesaheadandloadsthe
operatingsystem.Topreventunauthorizedaccess,settheuserauthenticationontheoperatingsystem.
Startupmenu
Youmayneedtochangethestartupsequenceofyourcomputer.Forexample,ifyouhavedifferentoperating
systemsondifferentdevices,youcanhavethesystemstartupfromeitherofthem.
Attention:Afteryouchangeyourstartupsequence,youmustbeextremelycarefulnottospecifyawrong
deviceduringacopy,asave,oraformatoperation.Ifyouspecifyawrongdevice,yourdataandprograms
mightbeerasedoroverwritten.
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