In contrast, ThinkPad lets you set both User and Master passwords. I say “should” because the Acer Aspire One only allows you to set a single password. Outside of a corporation, you should be able to set both the Master and User passwords, in effect, giving you two passwords. In a corporate environment the home office techies should have set the Master password which allows them access even when employees forget their User level password. If it’s there, it will probably be in a “Security” or “Password” section. To see if it’s available, you have to get into the BIOS setup/configuration program and poke around. To begin with, not all computers offer hard disk passwords as an option. Hard drive passwords only comes into play when a computer is turned on. They are more secure than operating system passwords or BIOS-resident power-on passwords. They offer great security without having to install any software, without having to learn much, without having to spend a nickel and at the minor nuisance cost of entering a single password when turning on your computer. Hard drive passwords block access to all the files stored on the hard disk in your computer.
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