10
Desktop Management Guide
Compaq Confidential - Need to Know Required
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Holly Jahangiri
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Deleting a Power-On or Setup Password
1. Turn on or restart the computer. If you are in Windows, click Start
à
Shut Down
à
Restart the Computer. To delete the setup
password, run Computer Setup.
2. When the key icon appears, type your current password followed
by a slash (/) or alternate delimiter character as shown:
current password/
3. Press the Enter key.
Refer to the “National Keyboard Delimiter Characters”
section in this chapter for information about the
alternate delimiter characters.
The power-on password and setup password may also
be changed using the Security options in Computer
Setup.
National Keyboard Delimiter Characters
Each keyboard is designed to meet country-specific requirements. The
syntax and keys that you use for changing or deleting your password
depend on the keyboard that came with your computer.
National Keyboard Delimiter Characters
Arabic
/
Greek
-
Russian
/
Belgian
=
Hebrew
.
Slovakian
-
BHCSY*
-
Hungarian
-
Spanish
-
Brazilian
/
Italian
-
Swedish/Finnish
/
Chinese
/
Japanese
/
Swiss
-
Czech
-
Korean
/
Taiwanese
/
Danish
-
Latin American
-
Thai
/
French
!
Norwegian
-
Turkish
.
French
Canadian
é
Polish
-
U.K. English
/
German
-
Portuguese
-
U.S. English
/
* For Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, and Yugoslavia