Overview of the Login Screen

If your administrator enables Full Disk Encryption, when you log in to your computer you get a Pre-boot login screen where you enter your authentication credentials. If you do not enter the correct credentials, you cannot access your computer at all.

This is an .important protection for the information stored on your computer and corporate network. For example, if someone steals your computer and tries to access the information in it, the thief will not be able to get past this screen.

You can also use these options on the login screen:

  • Remote Help - Click this if you do not know your password. You and the help desk or administrator will exchange information to recover your password.

  • Keyboard Layout - To change the keyboard layout to a different language, click on the shaded area that says your keyboard layout, for example, en-US or sv-SE. All keyboard layouts that are loaded in Windows are supported in the Pre-boot environment.

  • Change Password

  • Single Sign-On - Allows you to automatically log in when the user successfully passed pre-boot with valid credentials.

  • One-Time LogOn - Allows you to log in to the system through a request sent to the system administrator from the Pre-boot menu.

  • Options - Click this to:

    • Virtual Keyboard - Opens an on-screen keyboard to use in the authentication process.

    • Character Map - Opens a set of Latin characters on-screen to use in the authentication process.

    • Enable HII Keyboard Layout

    • Language - Changes the language of the Pre-bootscreen.

    • About - A short description of Full Disk Encryption.

From the Pre-boot page, select Options > Virtual Keyboard to open a Virtual Keyboard. You can use the Virtual keyboard throughout the authentication.

To close the virtual keyboard, click it again from the Options menu.

Your user credentials might contain characters that are not easily available on your keyboard. From the Pre-boot screen, you can select Options > Character Map to enter characters into the login screen.

To insert a character into a field in the Pre-boot login screen:

  1. In the Pre-boot login screen, select Options > Character Map.

    A set of Latin characters shows on the screen.

  2. Click in a field in the login window, for example, User account name.

  3. Click a character from the Character Map.

    It shows in the selected field.

To change the set of characters that show:

  1. Click the arrow in the top right corner of the Character Map.

  2. Select a set of characters from the list.

You can set the Pre-boot to recognize a language other than the default language of your computer. After you change the language, it is used as the default the next time you authenticate with Full Disk Encryption.

To set the language for the Pre-boot screen:

  1. From the Pre-boot screen, select Options > Language.

    The Language window opens.

  2. Select a language and click OK.

    The computer restarts automatically. When it starts again, the Pre-boot screen is in the selected language.