21 Getting Started
• Start typing in the name of your home city, or tap on the arrow symbols
or press the left and right arrow keys until you find the city you want.
• If your home city is not listed, select a city that is nearby for now
(adding a city is described in the ‘Time’ chapter).
7. Tap on the OK button or press the Enter key, and your home city is saved.
Tap Close or press Enter to remove the dialog and return to the Control
panel. Press Esc to return to the Desktop screen.
Note! The MC 218 can use a 12-hour clock (midnight is 12:00:00 a.m.) or a
24-hour clock. Refer to the ‘Time’ chapter for details of how to change these
settings, and how to adjust the clock for summer time.
Entering owner information
It is a good idea to type contact information as ‘owner information’, so that if
you lose your MC 218, it can be returned when found.
To enter owner information:
1. In the Control panel on the Desktop screen, select the Password icon, 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 is 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 this screen when you switch on.
You can display the owner information at any other time using the Owner
command on the Information menu on the Desktop screen.
Setting a desktop password
To prevent anyone looking at the files on the Internal disk of the MC 218, set
a desktop password which you must type in order to remove the owner
information screen.
To set a desktop password:
1. In the Control panel on the Desktop screen, select the Password icon.
2. Tick the Ask for password box if you want the MC 218 to request the
password when you switch the machine on.
3. Type the password twice for confirmation. Choose a password that is not
easily forgotten, but one that is not easy for someone else to guess.
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 desktop password does not protect files stored on Memory disks or
files copied to other machines.
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