Dell Latitude E5420 (Early 2011) User Manual

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Security

Default Setting: Disabled

Password Change

Allows you to enable the disable permission to the System and Hard Drive
passwords when the admin password is set.
Default Setting: Allow Non-Admin Password Changes is not selected

Strong Password

Allows you to enforce the option to always set strong passwords.
Default Setting: Enable Stron Password is not selected.

OROM Keyboard Access

Allows you to set an option to enter the Option ROM Configuration screens using
hotkeys during boot. The options are:

Enable

One Time Enable

Disable

Default Setting: Enable

TPM Security

Allows you to enable the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) during POST.
Default Setting: The option is disabled.

Computrace

Allows you to activate or disable the optional Computrace software The options
are:

Deactivate

Disable

Activate

NOTE: The Activate and Disable options will permanently activate or disable
the feature and no further changes will be allowed

Default Setting: Deactivate

CPU XD Support

Allows you to enable the Execute Disable mode of the processor.
Default Setting: Enable CPU XD Support

Non-Admin Setup Changes

Allows you to determine whether changes to the setup options are allowed when
an Administrator Password is set. If disabled the setup options are locked by the
admin password.

Password Configuration

Allows you to determine the minimum and maximum length of Administrator and
System passwords.

Admin Setup Lockout

Allows you to prevent users from entering Setup when an Administrator password
is set.
Default Setting: Enable Admin Setup Lockout is not selected.

Performance

Multi Core Support

This field specifies whether the process will have one or all cores enabled. The
performance of some applications will improve with the additional cores. This
option is enabled by default.Allows you to enable or disable multi-core support for
the processor. The options are:

All

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