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Customizing Your VAIO Computer

Using Fingerprint Authentication

Your computer is equipped with a fingerprint sensor to provide you with additional convenience. A small horizontal bar located at the upper left of the touch panel LCD screen is the sensor of the fingerprint reader and will be referred to as the fingerprint sensor hereinafter.

Once you have registered your fingerprint(s), the fingerprint authentication functionality offers:

❑A substitute for password entry

You can log onto your password-protected system without entering the power-on, hard disk, and Windows passwords. If you share a computer with other people, you can skip user selection as well.

❑Quick Web site access

Once you have registered your user information (user accounts, passwords, etc.) for Web sites in the password bank, you can substitute fingerprint authentication for entering required information and access the password-protected Web sites.

❑Access to the data in the encrypted (locked) archive

You can unlock encrypted archives that you created with the File Safe feature to access the files and folders in the archive by swiping your finger across the fingerprint sensor or entering the backup password you specified encryption.

❑Quick application access

Once you have assigned an application to your finger, you can then swipe the finger across the fingerprint sensor to launch the assigned application.