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Deleting a power-on or setup password
To delete a power-on or setup password:
1. Power on or restart the computer.
2. Choose from the following:
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To delete the power-on password, go to step 4.
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To delete the setup password, as soon as the computer is powered on, press and hold F10
until you enter the Computer Setup (F10) Utility. Press Enter to bypass the title screen, if
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: current password/.
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 2-4 National keyboard delimiter characters
Language Delimiter Language Delimiter Language Delimiter
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 /
*
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, and Yugoslavia
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