•Ineachsubmenu,youcanenableafunctionbyselectingEnabled,ordisableitbyselectingDisabled.
Thefollowingsubmenuisdisplayed:
•Password:Setpasswordrelatedfunctions.
•UEFIBIOSUpdateOption:SpecifythesettingsforFlashUEFIBIOSupdate.
•MemoryProtection:SpecifythesettingsfortheDataExecutionPreventionfeature.
•Virtualization:EnableordisablethesettingsforIntelVirtualizationTechnologyandIntelVT-dfeature.
•I/OPortAccess:EnableordisabletheaccesstoindividualI/Oports.
•Anti-Theft:EnableordisableUEFIBIOSinterfacetoactivateAnti-Theftservices,suchasIntelATand
Computrace.
Tosetpasswordrelatedfunctions,gototheSecuritymenuandselectPassword.Thefollowingsubmenuis
displayed:
•SupervisorPassword
•LockUEFIBIOSSettings
•SetMinimumLength
•Passwordatrestart
•Power-OnPassword
•HardDiskxPassword
Notes:
•HardDisk1meanstheharddiskdrivebuiltintoyourcomputer.
LockUEFIBIOSSettingsenableordisablethefunctionthatprotectsitemsintheThinkPadSetupfrom
beingchangedbyauserwhodoesnothavethesupervisorpassword.Bydefault,thisissettoDisabled.
Ifyousetthesupervisorpasswordandenablethisfunction,noonebutyoucanchangeanyitemsinthe
ThinkPadSetup.
IfyouselectSetMinimumLength,youcanspecifyaminimumlengthforpower-onpasswordsandhard
diskpasswords.Bydefault,thisissettoDisabled.Ifyousetthesupervisorpasswordandspecifya
minimumlengthforpasswords,noonebutyoucanchangethelength.
IfyouselectandenablePasswordatrestart,apasswordpromptisdisplayedwhenyourestartthe
computer.IfyouselectDisabled,nopasswordpromptisdisplayed;thecomputergoesaheadandloadsthe
operatingsystem.Topreventunauthorizedaccess,settheuserauthenticationontheoperatingsystem.
Startupmenu
Youmightneedtochangethestartupsequenceofyourcomputer.F orexample,ifyouhavedifferent
operatingsystemsondifferentdevices,youcanhavethesystemstartupfromeitherofthem.
Attention:Afteryouchangeyourstartupsequence,youmustbeextremelycarefulnottospecifyawrong
deviceduringacopy,save,orformatoperation.Ifyouspecifyawrongdevice,yourdataandprograms
mightbeerasedoroverwritten.
Attention:IfyouareusingtheBitLocker®driveencryption,youshouldnotchangethestartupsequence.
BitLockerdriveencryptiondetectsthechangeofstartupsequenceandlocksthecomputerfrombooting.
Changingthestartupsequence
SelecttheStartuptodisplaytheBootsubmenu:
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