- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Working on your computer
- Disassembly and reassembly
- Technology and components
- BIOS Overview
- System setup options
- Navigation keys
- System Setup overview
- Accessing System Setup
- General screen options
- System Configuration screen options
- Video screen options
- Security screen options
- Secure Boot screen options
- Performance screen options
- Power management screen options
- POST behavior screen options
- Wireless screen options
- Memory specifications
- System logs screen options
- SupportAssist system resolution
- Updating the BIOS in Windows
- System and setup password
- Technical specifications
- System specifications
- Processor specifications
- Memory specifications
- Storage specifications
- Audio specifications
- Video specifications
- Camera specifications
- Communication specifications
- Port and connector specifications
- Keyboard specifications
- Touchpad specifications
- Battery specifications
- AC adapter specifications
- Physical specifications
- Environmental specifications
- Troubleshooting
- Contacting Dell
Latitude 3180 Owner's Manual
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
- 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, the 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 specify the minimum and max password
lengths of the Administrator and System passwords.
- min-4—by default, if you want to change you can increase the number
- max-32—you can decrease the number
- 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 —enabled by default
- Reboot bypass
- 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.
- Non-Admin Setup Changes
- Allows you to determine whether changes to the setup
options are allowed when an Administrator Password is set. If disabled
the setup options are locked by the admin password.
Option "allow wireless switch changes" is not selected by default.
- UEFI Capsule Firmware Updates
- Allows you to enable the disable. This option controls
whether this system allows BIOS updated via UEFI capsule update packages.
The options are:
- Enable UEFI Capsule Firmware—enabled by default
- TPM 2.0 Security
- Allows you to enable the Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
during POST. The options are:
- TPM On—enabled by default
- Clear
- PPI Bypass for Enable Commands—enabled by default
- PPI Bypass for Disabled Commands
- Attestation enable—enabled by default
- Key storage enable—enabled by default
- SHA-256—enabled by default
- Disabled
- Enabled—enabled by default
NOTE: To upgrade or downgrade TPM 2.0, download the TPM wrapper tool—software. - Computrace
- Allows you to activate or disable the optional Computrace
software The options are:
- Deactivate
- Disable
- Activate—enabled by default
NOTE: The Activate and Disable options will permanently activate or disable the feature and no further changes are allowed - CPU XD Support
- Allows you to enable the Execute Disable mode of the
processor.
Enable CPU XD Support—enabled by default
- Admin Setup Lockout
- Allows you to prevent users from entering Setup when
an Administrator password is set.
Default Setting: This option is enabled
- Master password lockout
- This option is not enabled by default.
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