NEC PowerMate eco, Service And Reference Manual

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1-10 System Overview
Software
NEC Solutions (America), Inc. provides a variety of applications and hardware utilities with the
system to take advantage of the system hardware capabilities.
Preloaded Software
The system comes preloaded with the Microsoft
®
Windows
®
2000 Professional/Windows XP
Professional operating system.
On the initial power-on, you must choose the operating system you want to load. The operating
system you choose is the only operating system and is the one that the Product Recovery
program restores.
PowerMate eco Application and Driver CD
Use the PowerMate eco Application and Driver CD to install on the hard drive the applications,
drivers, and utilities provided by NEC Solutions (America), Inc. Also use the PowerMate eco
Application and Driver CD to reinstall the NEC Solutions (America), Inc. supplied software if
the software becomes corrupted. See “PowerMate eco Application and Driver CD” in Chapter 2
for information about installing software from the CD.
The Application and Driver CD includes Microsoft Internet Explorer, Norton AntiVirus™
software, and Adobe
®
Acrobat
®
Reader.
PowerMate eco Product Recovery CD
The system comes with a PowerMate eco Product Recovery CD. Should a problem occur that
causes data loss or corruption, you can use the Product Recovery CD to restore the system to its
original factory state. A full system restore loads the operating system and the factory-supplied
software that comes on the hard drive. See “PowerMate eco Product Recovery CD” in Chapter 2
for information about using the restore options.
SoftDVD and CD-RW Software
To take full advantage of both DVD-ROM and CD-RW technologies, NEC Solutions
(America), Inc. ships the following CDs with the combination DVD-ROM and CD-RW drive:
SoftDVD Software CD — contains SoftDVD drivers and the CyberLink
®
PowerDVD™ XP
DVD software program for playing DVD movies.
CD-RW Software CD — contains Easy CD Creator
®
software which allows you to write
information to a CD and to back up information from the hard drive to a CD.
Security
The system has hardware, software, and mechanical security features that offer protection
against unauthorized access to the system and data. The following security features are
available.
Password Security
The BIOS Setup utility includes an option that allows a user to set a user or supervisor
password, or both.
The user password controls booting of the system and controls access to the Setup utility and the
keyboard. User access to the BIOS Setup Utility is limited when a supervisor password is set.
The supervisor password allows full access to the system and the BIOS.