•HardwarePasswordManager
•SupervisorPassword
•LockUEFISettings
•SetMinimumLength
•Passwordatunattendedboot
•Passwordatrestart
•Power-OnPassword
•HardDiskxPassword
Note:HardDisk1meanstheharddiskdrivebuiltintoyourcomputer.
IfyouselectandenableHardwarePasswordManager,youcanmanageyourpower-onpassword,
supervisorpassword,andyourharddiskpasswordsbythemanagementserver.Bydefault,thisisset
toEnabled.
LockUEFISettingsenablesordisablesthefunctionthatprotectsitemsintheThinkPadSetupfrombeing
changedbyauserwhodoesnothavethesupervisorpassword.Bydefault,thisissettoEnabled.If
yousetthesupervisorpasswordandenablethisfunction,noonebutyoucanchangeanyitemsinthe
ThinkPadSetup.
IfyouselectSetMinimumLength,youcanspecifyaminimumlengthforpower-onpasswordsandhard
diskpasswords.Bydefault,thisissettoDisabled.Ifyousetthesupervisorpasswordandspecifya
minimumlengthforpasswords,noonebutyoucanchangethelength.
IfyouselectandenablePasswordatrestart,apasswordpromptisdisplayedwhenyourestartthe
computer.IfyouselectDisabled,nopasswordpromptisdisplayed;thecomputergoesaheadandloadsthe
operatingsystem.Topreventunauthorizedaccess,settheuserauthenticationontheoperatingsystem.
Startupmenu
Youmayneedtochangethestartupsequenceofyourcomputer.Forexample,ifyouhavedifferentoperating
systemsondifferentdevices,youcanhavethesystemstartupfromeitherofthem.
Attention:Afteryouchangeyourstartupsequence,youmustbeextremelycarefulnottospecifyawrong
deviceduringacopy,asave,oraformatoperation.Ifyouspecifyawrongdevice,yourdataandprograms
mightbeerasedoroverwritten.
Attention:IfyouareusingtheBitLocker
®
driveencryption,youshouldnotchangethestartupsequence.
BitLockerdriveencryptiondetectsthechangeofstartupsequenceandlocksthecomputerfrombooting.
Changingthestartupsequence
SelectStartuptodisplaytheBootsubmenu.
Tochangethestartupsequence,dothefollowing:
1.SelectBoot;thenpressEnter.
YoucanusetheBootsubmenutospecifythestartupsequencethatrunswhenyouturnonthepower.
Referto“Bootsubmenu”onpage102
.
2.Selectthedeviceyouwanttostartrst.
TosettheorderthattheUEFIBIOSwillusewhenstartinganoperatingsystem,youcanpressthe+or-
keytomovethedeviceupordown.
3.PressF10tosavethechangesandrestartthesystem.
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