Apart from setting an administrator password (in Control Panel) as a power on password to your HP laptop, what else will you do to guarantee the computer safety and prevent others from using your computer without permission? Setting a BIOS password which is also a power on password to the computer is another advisable method to add a new layer of protection to your laptop. Maybe you think that creating a BIOS password is extremely complicated, but it is not true. As for how to set a BIOS password to the HP laptop, you can realize it according to the following tutorial.
Steps to Set Power On Password to HP Laptop:
1. As you start the computer, immediately press F10 in a continuous way until the BIOS Setup Utility screen appears.
2. Choose Security by the right arrow (→) and select Set User Password in the menu by the down arrow (↓) key. Then press Enter. Nevertheless, if you can’t select Set User Password directly, you must choose Set Supervisor Password and set it first. Then you are able to select Set User Password and create code. With either of the two passwords, you can enter the Windows system interface later. Besides, if you don’t input the supervisor password first, you can’t make changes to the BIOS setting, including resetting the User Password.
3. Enter a password and re-enter it in the next screen. And the password could be 8-digit English letters, 8-digit numbers or the combination of English letters and numbers.
4. Press F10 and click Enter to select Yes so as to save the changes and exit the BIOS.
To sum up, all these 4 steps enable you to set a BIOS password as another power-on password to your HP laptop. What’s more, as the power on password setting to HP laptop is simple and easy to operate, you can have a try in your computer and decide whether it is the right laptop protection method you want.
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