Lenovo ThinkPad X140e User Manual

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Table 5. Security menu items (continued)

Menu item

Submenu item

Selection

Comments

any items in the ThinkPad
Setup program.

Password at unattended
boot

• Disabled

Enabled

If you select and enable
Password at unattended
boot
, a password prompt
is displayed when the
computer is turned on,
from either a power-off
state or hibernation state.
If you select Disabled,
no password prompt is
displayed; the computer
goes ahead and loads
the operating system.
To prevent unauthorized
access, set the user
authentication on the
operating system.

Password at restart

Disabled

• Enabled

If you select and enable
Password at restart,
a password prompt is
displayed when you restart
the computer. If you select
Disabled, no password
prompt is displayed; the
computer goes ahead and
loads the operating system.
To prevent unauthorized
access, set the user
authentication on the
operating system.

Set Minimum Length

Disabled

• Password length options

Specify a minimum length
for the power-on password
and hard disk password.
By default, this is set to
Disabled. If you set the
supervisor password and
specify a minimum length
for passwords, no one but
you can change the length.

Power-On Password

Enter

Refer to “Power-on
password” on page 44
.

Hard Disk1 Password

Enter

Refer to “Hard disk
passwords” on page
44
.

Chapter 7

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Advanced configuration

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