Document Outline

• Notebook Tour
  • Components
    • Top components
      • Keys
      • TouchPad
      • Buttons and switches
      • Lights
      • Display components
    • Front components
    • Rear components
    • Right-side components
    • Left-side components
    • Bottom components
    • Wireless antennae (select models only)
    • Additional hardware components
    • Labels
  • Specifications
    • Operating environment
    • Rated input power
• TouchPad and Keyboard
  • TouchPad
    • Using the TouchPad
    • Using an external mouse
    • Setting TouchPad preferences
  • Keyboard
    • Hotkeys
      • Hotkey quick reference
      • Hotkey procedures
      • Display and clear system information (fn+esc)
      • Open the Help and Support Center (fn+f1)
      • Open the Print Options window (fn+f2)
      • Open a Web browser (fn+f3)
      • Switch the screen image (fn+f4)
      • Initiate standby (fn+f5)
      • Initiate QuickLock (fn+f6)
      • Decrease screen brightness (fn+f7)
      • Increase screen brightness (fn+f8)
      • Play, pause or resume an audio CD or a DVD (fn+f9)
      • Stop an audio CD or a DVD (fn+f10)
      • Play previous track or section of an audio CD or a DVD (fn+f11)
      • Play next track or section of an audio CD or a DVD (fn+f12)
    • Quick Launch Buttons software
      • Accessing the Quick Launch Buttons control panel
      • Setting tiling preferences
      • Setting advanced preferences
        • Displaying the Quick Launch Buttons icon
        • Setting button assignments on an external keyboard
  • Keypads
    • Using the embedded numeric keypad
      • Enabling and disabling the embedded numeric keypad
      • Switching key functions on the embedded numeric keypad
    • Using an external numeric keypad
      • Enabling or disabling num lock mode as you work
• Power
  • Power control and light locations
  • Power sources
    • Connecting the AC adapter
  • Standby and hibernation
    • Standby
    • Hibernation
    • Initiating standby, hibernation or shutdown
      • When you leave your work
      • When a reliable power supply is unavailable
      • When using wireless communication or readable or writable media (select models only)
  • Default power settings
    • Turning the computer or display on or off
    • Using emergency shutdown procedures
    • Initiating or resuming from standby
    • Initiating or restoring from hibernation
  • Power options
    • Accessing Power Options Properties
    • Displaying the Power Meter icon
    • Setting or changing a power scheme
    • Setting a security prompt
  • Processor performance controls
  • Battery packs
    • Inserting or removing a battery pack
    • Charging a battery pack
      • Monitoring the charge of the battery pack
        • Obtaining accurate charge information
        • Displaying charge information on the screen
          • Viewing charge displays
          • Interpreting charge indicators
    • Managing low-battery conditions
      • Identifying low-battery conditions
        • Low-battery condition
        • Critical low-battery condition
      • Resolving low-battery conditions
        • When external power is available
        • When a charged battery pack is available
        • When no power source is available
        • When the computer cannot restore from hibernation
    • Calibrating a battery pack
      • When to calibrate
      • How to calibrate
        • Step 1: Charging the battery pack
        • Step 2: Discharging the battery pack
        • Step 3: Recharging the battery pack
    • Conserving battery power
      • Conserving power as you work
      • Selecting power conservation settings
    • Storing a battery pack
    • Disposing of a used battery pack
• Drives
  • Drive care
  • IDE drive light
  • Hard drive
  • Optical drives
    • Inserting an optical disc
    • Removing an optical disc (with power)
    • Removing an optical disc (without power)
    • Avoiding standby or hibernation
• Multimedia
  • Multimedia hardware
    • Using the optical drive
      • Identifying the installed optical drive
      • Inserting an optical disc
      • Removing an optical disc (with power)
      • Removing an optical disc (without power)
    • Using media activity hotkeys
    • Using the audio features
      • Using the audio-in (microphone) jack
      • Using the audio-out (headphone) jack
      • Adjusting the volume
    • Using the video features
      • Using the external monitor port
      • Using the S-Video-out jack
  • Multimedia software
    • Identifying preinstalled multimedia software
    • Installing multimedia software from a CD (select models only)
    • Using multimedia software
    • Protecting playback
    • Protecting the CD or DVD write process
    • Changing DVD region settings
    • Observing the copyright warning
• External Devices
  • Using a USB device
    • Connecting a USB device
    • Stopping a USB device
    • Required USB software
• Memory Modules
  • Adding or replacing memory modules
  • Effects of increasing memory
• Index