Acer Aspire M5100 Aspire M1100/3100/5100 Power M3100 Service Guide - Page 21

Acer Empowering Technology Acer's innovative Empowering Technology makes it easy for you to access frequently used functions and manage your new Acer notebook. It features the following handy utilities: • Acer eRecovery Management backs up and recovers data flexibly, reliably and completely. • Acer eDataSecurity Management protects data with passwords and advanced encryption algorithms. • Acer ePerformance Management improves system performance by optimizing disk space, memory and registry settings. For more information, press the key to launch the Empowering Technology menu, then click on the appropriate utility and select the Help or Tutorial function. Empowering Technology password Before using Acer eRecovery Management, you must initialize the Empowering Technology password. Right click on the Empowering Technology toolbar and select Password Setup to do so. If you do not initialize the Empowering Technology password, you will be prompted to do so when running Acer eRecovery Management for the first time. Acer eRecovery Management Acer eRecovery Management is a powerful utility that does away with the need for recovery disks provided by the manufacturer. The Acer eRecovery Management utility supports Microsoft Windows XP Home Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition Wallop 2, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Premium, Business, and Ultimate. The Acer eRecovery Management utility occupies space in a hidden partition on your system's HDD. User-created backups are stored on D:\ drive. Acer eRecovery Management provides you with: • Password protection • Recovery of applications and drivers • Image/data backup: • Back up to HDD (set recovery point) • Back up to CD/DVD • Image/data recovery tools • Recovery from a hidden partition (factory defaults) • Recovery from the HDD (most recent user-defined recovery point) • Recovery from CD/DVD Chapter 1 11