Toshiba Satellite P500 Laptop User Manual


 
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Introduction
Utilities and Applications
This section describes pre-installed utilities and tells how to start them. For
details on operations, refer to each utility’s online manual, help files or
readme.txt files.
TOSHIBA Assist TOSHIBA Assist is a graphical user interface that
provides easy access to help and services.
HW Setup This program lets you customize your hardware
settings according to the way you work with your
computer and the peripherals you use. To start
the utility, double click the TOSHIBA Assist on
your desktop, select OPTIMIZE tab, and click
TOSHIBA Hardware Settings.
Power On Password Two levels of password security, supervisor and
user, are available to prevent unauthorized
access to your computer.
To register a supervisor password, double click
the TOSHIBA Assist on your desktop select the
SECURE tab and start the Supervisor
password utility.
To set a user password, select the SECURE tab
on TOSHIBA Assist, then start the User
password utility. On the Password tab you can
register a user password.
TOSHIBA Disc
Creator
You can create discs in several formats including
audio CDs that can be played on a standard
stereo CD player and data discs to store the files
and folders on your hard disk drive. This software
can be used on a model with a CD-RW/DVD-
ROM drive, DVD Super Multi drive.
TOSHIBA DVD-RAM
Utility
TOSHIBA DVD-RAM Utility has a Physical
Format function and Write-Protect function to
DVD-RAM.
This utility is contained in the TOSHIBA Disc
Creator setup module.
To run TOSHIBA DVD-RAM Utility, click ,
select All Programs, TOSHIBA, CD&DVD
Applications, and then click DVD-RAM Utility.