To delete the power-on password, go to step 4.
●
To delete the setup password, as soon as the computer is powered on, press and hold
●
until you enter Computer Setup (F10) Utility. Press
necessary.
If you do not press F10 at the appropriate time, you must restart the computer and then
press and hold F10 again to access the utility.
Use the appropriate operating system shutdown process.
3.
When the key icon appears, enter the current password followed by a slash (/) or alternative
delimiter character:
For information about the alternative delimiter characters see the following section.
4.
Press
Enter.
National keyboard delimiter characters
Each keyboard meets country-specific requirements. The syntax and keys you use for changing or
deleting passwords depend on the keyboard included with the computer.
Table 2-3
National keyboard delimiter characters
Language
Arabic
Belgian
BHCSY
Brazilian
Chinese
Czech
Danish
French
French Canadian
German
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, and Yugoslavia
*
current password/.
Delimiter
/
=
-
*
/
/
-
-
!
é
-
Language
Delimiter
Greek
-
Hebrew
.
Hungarian
-
Italian
-
Japanese
/
Korean
/
Latin American
-
Norwegian
-
Polish
-
Portuguese
-
Enter
to bypass the title screen, if
Language
Russian
Slovakian
Spanish
Swedish/Finnish
Swiss
Taiwanese
Thai
Turkish
U.K. English
U.S. English
Desktop management
F10
Delimiter
/
-
-
/
-
/
/
.
/
/
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