Satellite L20-101: Question on battery & BIOS password

Dear Sir or Madam:

I have a Toshiba laptop satellite L20-101, so can u please answer my questions below.

Is it better for the battery life to always stay connected to an electrical outlet when possible, or charge the battery and then use it until it needs to be recharged again? I mean what is best for the life of the battery, and I need to know if stay connected to AC power affects the battery life.

How can I set a password for the laptop not windows? Because when I enter BIOS setup and set a password for user and supervisor. He just ask me about this password when I try to login to Setup again, but it is still continuous to the windows boot without asking me about a password.

What should I do?

Kind regards

Hello

The fact is that you can charge/discharge the battery about 500 times.
After this period, the battery will lose performance.
More recent laptops and batteries use the latest technology of load.
But I recommend to remove the battery, if you work on the DC for a long time.
In this case, you can extend the life of the battery and the performance

Please also check other topics on this topic like this.
http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=13088&MessageID=47924

If you want to set the BIOS password and it should appear at the beginning, you must activate the password at startup option in the BIOS.

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