You must enter your password every time you turn on the OmniBook—even if it turned itself off after a period of inactivity. Turn On, after FN-OFF The only time you must enter your password is when you turn on the OmniBook after you deliberately turned it off by pressing FN+ On/Off. (If you turned it off with just On/Off, you’re not prompted for your password.) Undock You must enter your password each time you undock the OmniBook from a docking station. Save Setup Changes You must enter your password every time you save changes in the System Configuration utility or OmniBook Tools. To remove your password, leave the New Password line empty in the Set User password dialog box..
To set up an administrator password You can also set up an administrator password on your OmniBook. The administrator password can serve as a backup for the user password—you can enter it any time the user password is requested—or you can use the administrator password to keep your PC identification or configuration extra secure. Setting Up a Password In Windows 1. In Program Manager, double-click the OmniBook Tools icon (in the Main group). 2. Click Password. If you’re prompted, type your current password and choose OK. 3. Click Set Admin Password. Type your new password—it can contain up to eight characters—then press TAB . The display shows * for each character in your password.
Leave the box empty if you want no password. Hint: Before you type a password, check the status of Num Lock—normally, you’d want it off so you can type letters. Type the new password again (in the Verify box), then choose OK. 4. Select or clear the Admin Password Required options you want. See below. 5. Choose OK to activate the changes. You have two choices for password security, as indicated by the Password Required options: To Change PC Identification You must enter your administrator password every time you save changes to the PC identification.
To Save Setup Changes You must enter your administrator password every time you save changes in the System Configuration utility or OmniBook Tools. In DOS or another operating system 1. I mportant : Save all your work—you will be rebooting your OmniBook. 26