Toshiba SATELLITE P500 User Manual

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User’s Manual

Introduction

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 is a graphical user interface that 

provides easy access to help and services. 

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.

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.

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 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.