Introduction

Utilities and Applications

This section describes pre-installed utilities and tells how to start them. For details on operations, refer to each utility’s online manual, help files or readme.txt files.

 

TOSHIBA Assist

TOSHIBA Assist is a graphical user interface that

 

 

provides easy access to help and services.

 

 

 

 

HW Setup

This program lets you customize your hardware

 

 

settings according to the way you work with your

 

 

computer and the peripherals you use. To start

 

 

the utility, double click the TOSHIBA Assist on

 

 

your desktop, select OPTIMIZE tab, and click

 

 

TOSHIBA Hardware Settings.

 

 

 

 

Power On Password

Two levels of password security, supervisor and

 

 

user, are available to prevent unauthorized

 

 

access to your computer.

 

 

To register a supervisor password, double click

 

 

the TOSHIBA Assist on your desktop select the

 

 

SECURE tab and start the Supervisor

 

 

password utility.

 

 

To set a user password, select the SECURE tab

 

 

on TOSHIBA Assist, then start the User

 

 

password utility. On the Password tab you can

 

 

register a user password.

 

 

 

 

TOSHIBA Disc

You can create discs in several formats including

 

Creator

audio CDs that can be played on a standard

 

 

stereo CD player and data discs to store the files

 

 

and folders on your hard disk drive. This software

 

 

can be used on a model with a CD-RW/DVD-

 

 

ROM drive, DVD Super Multi drive.

 

 

 

 

TOSHIBA DVD-RAM

TOSHIBA DVD-RAM Utility has a Physical

 

Utility

Format function and Write-Protect function to

 

 

DVD-RAM.

 

 

This utility is contained in the TOSHIBA Disc

 

 

Creator setup module.

 

 

To run TOSHIBA DVD-RAM Utility, click ,

 

 

select All Programs, TOSHIBA, CD&DVD

 

 

Applications, and then click DVD-RAM Utility.

 

 

 

 

CD/DVD Drive

This utility allows you to configure the read speed

 

Acoustic Silencer

of the CD drive. You can either configure Normal

 

 

Mode, which operates the drive at its maximum

 

 

speed for quick data access, or Quiet Mode,

 

 

whcih runs at single speed for CD audio and

 

 

which can lessen operational noise. It is

 

 

ineffective in DVD mode.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Toshiba P300 user manual Utilities and Applications