Psion Teklogix netBook, 32M/64M manual Entering owner information, Setting a system password

Entering owner information

It is a good idea to type your contact information as “owner information”, so that if you lose your netBook, it can be returned when found:

1.Select the Password icon from the Control panel in the System screen, and tap the Owner info button in the dialog.

2.Type in your details. The labels provided are suggestions only, you can change them if you want to. It’s best not to put your home address, in case your house keys are lost at the same time.

3.Set how you wish the owner information screen to be displayed, i.e.:

∙‘At switch on’, if you always want to display the screen when switching the machine on.

∙‘Once per day’, if you only want to see the screen once a day, the first time you switch your machine on each day.

∙‘Never’, if you never want to display the screen when you switch on.

You can display the owner information at any other time using the Owner command on the Information menu in the System screen.

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Setting a system password

To prevent anyone looking at the files on the Internal disk of the netBook, set a system password which you must type in before you can use the machine.

To do this:

1.Select the Password icon from the Control panel in the System screen.

2.Tick the ‘Ask for password’ box so that your netBook requests the password when you switch the machine on.

3.Type the password twice for confirmation. Choose a password that you won’t easily forget, but one that won’t be easy for someone else to guess. DON’T FORGET your password! You will need to enter the password again if you want to change the password settings on your netBook.

The password is now set. The next time you switch your machine on, you will have to type in the password to access your files.

If you want to switch the password off temporarily, remove the tick from the ‘Ask for password’ box.

Note: The system password does not protect files stored on Memory disks or files copied to other machines.

Important: don’t forget your password!

If you have forgotten the system password then you will have to reset the machine. All the files stored on the internal disk will then be lost.