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Toshiba Utilities

Toshiba Hardware Setup

 

 

 

Toshiba Hardware Setup

Toshiba Hardware Setup is the Toshiba configuration management tool available through Windows. To access it, open the Start menu, point to Settings, Control Panel, then click Toshiba Hardware Setup.

There are several tabs representing various dialog boxes. They are:

❖Boot Priority — Allows you to change the sequence in which your computer searches the drives for the operating system.

❖Keyboard — Allows you to assign as well as disable various key combinations.

❖USB — Allows you to enable or disable USB legacy emulation.

❖Pointing Devices — Allows you to select types of devices.

❖Hardware Alarm — Allows you to control alarm volume and whether an alarm sounds when the battery power is low or when you close the display panel while the computer is on.

❖General — Allows you to view current BIOS, hard disk drive and memory settings.

❖Device Config — Allows you to select device configurations.

❖Parallel/Printer — Allows you to select the printer port type.

❖Password — Allows you to set user passwords. If you do this, you can use SecureSleepTM to protect your work by requiring the password to be entered before accessing Windows.

❖Display — Allows you to change various settings for the built-in display.

❖PC Card — Allows you to change the controller mode settings.

❖CPU — Allows you to enable or disable the processor serial number, and to set the “CPU Frequency Mode” to either