User manual SONY VAIO VGN-SZ780E

[. . . ] To view the online specifications: 1 2 Connect to the Internet. Go to the Sony online support Web site at the following URLs: http://esupport. sony. com/EN/VAIO/ for customers in USA http://sony. ca/view/Computers_Bulletins. htm for customers in Canada http://esupport. sony. com/ES/VAIO/ for customers in Spanish speaking Latin American countries or areas http://esupport. sony. com/ES/VAIO/BR/ for customers in Brazil n8N Before Use VAIO Recovery Center User Guide -- Provides information about restoring individual software programs, software drivers, and drive partition(s) or your entire hard disk drive to the original factory installed settings. To access this on-screen guide: 1 2 3 Click Start and Help and Support. Click Manuals & Specifications. Click VAIO Recovery Center User Guide. SmartWiTM Connection Utility Help (Selected models only) -- Provides information about setting up Bluetooth, wireless LAN, and wireless WAN functionalities. [. . . ] To install this package, you must have administrator rights on the computer. !You need to set a few passwords while installing the Infineon TPM Professional Package. Without these passwords, you will not be able to restore any TPM-protected data or backup files. Be sure to write down the passwords and keep them safe and private from other people. To initialize and configure the TPM See the on-screen documentation for detailed information. To open the documentation, click Start, All Programs, Infineon Security Platform Solution, and Help. !The maintenance and management of TPM-protected data must be carried out at your own risk. Sony assumes no liabilities for any defects arising out of your data maintenance and management. n 134 N Customizing Your VAIO Computer Using BitLocker Drive Encryption with the TPM BitLocker Drive Encryption is a data encryption feature that is available on models with Windows Vista Ultimate. Enabling BitLocker Drive Encryption with the TPM encrypts all data on the C drive. For detailed information on how to use and configure BitLocker Drive Encryption, see Windows Help and Support. Notes on using BitLocker Drive Encryption Be sure to initialize the TPM with the Infineon TPM Professional Package before enabling BitLocker Drive Encryption. If you enable it without initializing the TPM, a TPM owner password is not generated, so you will not be able to configure the Infineon TPM Professional Package. The Infineon TPM Professional Package does not make a backup copy of a file (recovery password) for BitLocker Drive Encryption. An additional BitLocker system partition (S drive) has been pre-configured. This system partition uses 1. 5 GB of your total hard disk drive volume. You must enable the TPM in the BIOS setup screen in order to turn on BitLocker Drive Encryption. n 135 N Customizing Your VAIO Computer To unlock the encrypted data with a recovery key stored on a USB flash memory device To unlock the encrypted data with a recovery key stored on a USB flash memory device, your system needs to access the USB flash memory device when you boot the computer. Follow these steps to configure the boot order in the BIOS setup screen: 1 2 Turn on your computer. Press the F2 key when the VAIO logo appears. If not, restart the computer and press the F2 key several times when the VAIO logo appears. Press the < or , key to select TPM State and then select Enable for Change TPM State. Press the < or , key to select Advanced and then select Enabled for External Drive Boot. Press the < or , key to select Boot, select Internal Hard Disk Drive, and press Shift + = keys to move it to the top of the list. !You need to move Internal Optical Drive to the top of the list to recover the computer system from your recovery discs. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Press the < or , key to select Exit, select Exit Setup, and then press the Enter key. After your system restarts, click Execute in the Physical Presence Operations window. [. . . ] For contacts about the software, see Program Support Information (page 221). VAIO® Video & Photo Suite Sony Electronics Inc. VAIO Content Importer and VAIO Content Exporter are included in this utility software. This software enables you to import and export your media files to or from a DVD, digital still camera, or camcorder. [. . . ]