Toshiba Satellite P300 PSPCCC-0K501C Users Manual Canada; English - Page 45

Utilities and Applications, TOSHIBA Hardware Settings

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Introduction Utilities and Applications This section describes pre-installed utilities and tells how to start them. For details on operations, refer to each utility's online manual, help files or readme.txt files. TOSHIBA Assist TOSHIBA Assist is a graphical user interface that provides easy access to help and services. HW Setup This program lets you customize your hardware settings according to the way you work with your computer and the peripherals you use. To start the utility, double click the TOSHIBA Assist on your desktop, select OPTIMIZE tab, and click TOSHIBA Hardware Settings. Power On Password Two levels of password security, supervisor and user, are available to prevent unauthorized access to your computer. To register a supervisor password, double click the TOSHIBA Assist on your desktop select the SECURE tab and start the Supervisor password utility. To set a user password, select the SECURE tab on TOSHIBA Assist, then start the User password utility. On the Password tab you can register a user password. TOSHIBA Disc Creator You can create discs in several formats including audio CDs that can be played on a standard stereo CD player and data discs to store the files and folders on your hard disk drive. This software can be used on a model with a CD-RW/DVDROM drive, DVD Super Multi drive. TOSHIBA DVD-RAM Utility TOSHIBA DVD-RAM Utility has a Physical Format function and Write-Protect function to DVD-RAM. This utility is contained in the TOSHIBA Disc Creator setup module. To run TOSHIBA DVD-RAM Utility, click , select All Programs, TOSHIBA, CD&DVD Applications, and then click DVD-RAM Utility. CD/DVD Drive Acoustic Silencer This utility allows you to configure the read speed of the CD drive. You can either configure Normal Mode, which operates the drive at its maximum speed for quick data access, or Quiet Mode, whcih runs at single speed for CD audio and which can lessen operational noise. It is ineffective in DVD mode. User's Manual 1-13

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User’s Manual
1-13
Introduction
Utilities and Applications
This section describes pre-installed utilities and tells how to start them. For
details on operations, refer to each utility’s online manual, help files or
readme.txt files.
TOSHIBA Assist
TOSHIBA Assist is a graphical user interface that
provides easy access to help and services.
HW Setup
This program lets you customize your hardware
settings according to the way you work with your
computer and the peripherals you use. To start
the utility, double click the
TOSHIBA Assist
on
your desktop, select
OPTIMIZE
tab, and click
TOSHIBA Hardware Settings
.
Power On Password
Two levels of password security, supervisor and
user, are available to prevent unauthorized
access to your computer.
To register a supervisor password, double click
the
TOSHIBA Assist
on your desktop select the
SECURE
tab and start the
Supervisor
password
utility.
To set a user password, select the
SECURE
tab
on TOSHIBA Assist, then start the
User
password
utility. On the
Password
tab you can
register a user password.
TOSHIBA Disc
Creator
You can create discs in several formats including
audio CDs that can be played on a standard
stereo CD player and data discs to store the files
and folders on your hard disk drive. This software
can be used on a model with a CD-RW/DVD-
ROM drive, DVD Super Multi drive.
TOSHIBA DVD-RAM
Utility
TOSHIBA DVD-RAM Utility has a Physical
Format function and Write-Protect function to
DVD-RAM.
This utility is contained in the TOSHIBA Disc
Creator setup module.
To run TOSHIBA DVD-RAM Utility,
click
,
select
All Programs
,
TOSHIBA
,
CD&DVD
Applications
, and then click
DVD-RAM Utility
.
CD/DVD Drive
Acoustic Silencer
This utility allows you to configure the read speed
of the CD drive. You can either configure Normal
Mode, which operates the drive at its maximum
speed for quick data access, or Quiet Mode,
whcih runs at single speed for CD audio and
which can lessen operational noise. It is
ineffective in DVD mode.