Deletingthepower-onpassword
Changingordeletingthesupervisorpassword
EnablingordisablingtheWakeonLANandFlashoverLANfeatures
EnablingordisablingtheInternalNetworkOptionROMfeature
Changingdateandtime
EnablingordisablingtheLockUEFIBIOSSettingsfeature
EnablingordisablingthePasswordatunattendedbootfeature
Specifyingtheminimumlengthforpower-onpasswordsandharddiskpasswords
EnablingordisablingtheBootDeviceListF12Optionfeature
EnablingordisablingtheBootOrderLockfeature
EnablingordisablingtheFlashBIOSUpdatingbyEnd-Usersfeature
Enablingordisablingtheinternalnetworkdevice
Enablingordisablingtheinternalwirelessdevice
EnablingordisablingtheinternalBluetoothdevice
EnablingordisablingtheinternalwirelessWANdevice
EnablingordisablingtheSecuritymode
Enablingordisablingthengerprintreaderpriority
Erasingthengerprintdata
Notes:
ThesystemadministratorcansetthesamesupervisorpasswordonmanyThinkPadnotebookcomputers
tomakeadministrationeasier.
ByenablingtheLockUEFIBIOSSettingsfeatureonthePasswordmenuwhenyousetthesupervisor
password,youmakeitimpossibleforanyonebutyoutomakechanges.
Setting,changing,orremovingasupervisorpassword
Onlyasystemadministratorcanset,change,orremoveasupervisorpassword.
Toset,change,orremoveasupervisorpassword,dothefollowing:
1.Printtheseinstructions.
2.Saveallopenles,andexitallprogr ams.
3.Turnyourcomputeroffandthenturnitonagain.
4.Whenthelogoscreenisdisplayed,pressF1.TheThinkPadSetupprogrammainmenuopens.
5.SelectSecurity,usingthecursordirectionalkeystomovedownthemenu.
6.SelectPassword.
7.SelectSupervisorPassword.
8.Awindowopens,promptingyoutoenteranewpassword.Dependingonyourneeds,dooneofthe
following:
Tosetapassword,dothefollowing:
a.IntheEnterNewPasswordeld,typeadesiredpasswordandpressEnter.
b.IntheConrmNewPasswordeld,retypethepasswordandpressEnter.
Tochangeapassword,dothefollowing:
a.IntheEnterCurrentPasswordeld,typethecurrentsupervisorpasswordandpressEnter.
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