System security – Acer Altos G610 User Manual

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System Security

The Setup program has a number of security features to prevent
unauthorized access to the system and its data.

Thescreen below appears when you select System Security from the

main menu:

Parameter

Description

Option

Supervisor
Password

Prevents unauthorized access to the
BIOS Setup utility. The Present
setting allows you to set a
Supervisor password.

None
Present

User Password

Secures your system against
unauthorized use. Once you set
this password, you have to type it
whenever you boot the system.
User password is available only
when a Supervisor password is set.
The Present settings allows you to
set a User password.

None
Present

Disk Drive
Control

The disk drive control features
enable or disable the read/write
functions of the disk drives. These
features can also control the
diskette drive boot function to
prevent loading operating systems
or other programs from a certain
drive while the other drives remain
operational.

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