Toshiba A500, A500D Utilities and Applications, pressed, Disable the, ■ Hot key function, launch applications, ■Single-Swipe Sign-onfeature, ■ TOSHIBA utility launcher function

	Satellite A500/A500D
TOSHIBA Flash	The TOSHIBA Flash Cards provide a quick way
Cards	to modify selected system functions and to
	launch applications.
	■ Hot key function
	■ TOSHIBA utility launcher function
TOSHIBA	The TOSHIBA Accessibility utility provides
Accessibility	support to movement impaired users when they
	need to use the TOSHIBA Hot-key functions. In
	use, the utility allows you to make the FN key
	“sticky”, that is you can press it once, release it,
	and they press one of the “F” keys in order to
	access its specific function. When set, the FN
	key will remain active until another key is
	pressed.

Utilities and Applications

This section describes the pre-installed utilities that come with the computer and details how to start them. For further information on their operation, please refer to each utility’s online manual, help files or README.TXT file.

Fingerprint Utility Some models of this computer series support a fingerprint utility, which is installed for the purpose of enrolling and recognizing fingerprints which can then be linked to a username and password in order to remove the need to input these details from the keyboard. Just by swiping an enrolled finger against the fingerprint sensor, the following functions will be enabled:

■Log on to Windows and access a security enabled homepage through Internet Explorer.

■Files and folders can be encrypted/decrypted and third party access to them is prevented.

■Disable the password-protected screen-saver when returning from a power-saving mode such as Sleep Mode.

■Authentication of the User Password

(and, if applicable, the HDD(Hard Disk Drive) Password) when booting up the computer (Pre-OS Authentication).

■Single-Swipe Sign-on feature

■Fingerprint security cannot be used in models that do not have a fingerprint module installed.

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