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Dell Vostro 3660/3669 Owner's Manual

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Security screen options

Option Description
Admin Password Allows you to set, change, or delete the administrator (admin) password.
  • NOTE: You must set the admin password before you set the system or hard drive password. Deleting the admin password automatically deletes the system password and the hard drive password.
  • NOTE: Successful password changes take effect immediately.

Default setting: Not set

System Password Allows you to set, change or delete the system password.
  • NOTE: Successful password changes take effect immediately.

Default setting: Not set

Internal HDD-0 Password Allows you to set, change or delete the system’s internal hard disk’s password.

Default setting: Not set

  • NOTE: Successful password changes take effect immediately.
Strong Password Allows you to enforce the option to always set strong passwords.

Default Setting: Enable Strong Password is not selected.

  • NOTE: If Strong Password is enabled, Admin and System passwords must contain at least one uppercase character, one lowercase character and be at least 8 characters long.
Password Configuration Allows you to determine the minimum and maximum length of Administrator and System passwords.
Password Bypass Allows you to enable or disable the permission to bypass the System and the Internal HDD password, when they are set. The options are:
  • Disabled
  • Reboot bypass

Default setting: Disabled

Password Change Allows you to enable the disable permission to the System and Hard Drive passwords when the admin password is set.

Default setting: Allow Non-Admin Password Changes is selected.

UEFI Capsule Firmware Updates This option controls whether the system allows BIOS updates through UEFI capsule update packages.
  • NOTE: Disabling this option will block the BIOS updates from services such as Microsoft Windows Update and Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS).
This option is enabled by default.
TPM 2.0 Security Allows you to enable the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) during POST. This option is enabled by default. The options are:
  • TPM On
  • Clear
  • PPI Bypass for Enabled Commands
  • PPI Bypass for Disabled Commands
  • Attestation Enable
  • Key Storage Enable
  • SHA - 256
  • NOTE: Activation, deactivation, and clear options are not affected if you load the setup program's default values. Changes to this option take effect immediately.
Computrace (R) Allows you to activate or disable the optional Computrace software The options are:
  • Deactivate
  • Disable
  • Activate
  • NOTE: The Activate and Disable options will permanently activate or disable the feature and no further changes will be allowed

Default setting: Deactivate

CPU XD Support Allows you to enable or disable the Execute Disable mode of the processor.

Enable CPU XD Support (default)

Admin Setup Lockout Allows you to enable or disable the option to enter setup when an admin password is set.
  • Enable Admin Setup Lockout - This option is disabled by default.

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