Calibrating a battery
...........................................................................................................
63
Step 1: Fully charge the battery
........................................................................
63
Step 2: Disable Hibernation and Sleep
.............................................................
64
Step 3: Discharge the battery
............................................................................
65
Step 4: Fully recharge the battery
.....................................................................
65
Step 5: Reenable Hibernation and Sleep
..........................................................
66
Conserving battery power
..................................................................................................
66
Storing a battery
................................................................................................................
66
Disposing of a used battery
...............................................................................................
67
Replacing the battery
.........................................................................................................
67
Shutting down the computer
...............................................................................................................
68
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Drives
Handling drives
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69
Optical drive
.......................................................................................................................................
70
Identifying the installed optical drive
..................................................................................
70
Using optical discs
.............................................................................................................
71
Selecting the right disc (CDs, DVDs, and BDs)
.................................................................
72
CD-R discs
........................................................................................................
72
CD-RW discs
.....................................................................................................
72
DVD±R discs
.....................................................................................................
72
DVD±RW discs
.................................................................................................
72
LightScribe DVD+R discs
..................................................................................
73
Blu-ray Disc (BD)
..............................................................................................
73
Playing a CD, DVD, or BD
.................................................................................................
73
Configuring AutoPlay
.........................................................................................................
75
Changing DVD region settings
..........................................................................................
75
Observing the copyright warning
.......................................................................................
76
Copying a CD, DVD, or BD
................................................................................................
76
Creating (burning) a CD or DVD
........................................................................................
77
Removing a CD, DVD, or BD
.............................................................................................
78
Using external drives
..........................................................................................................................
78
Improving hard drive performance
.....................................................................................................
80
Using Disk Defragmenter
...................................................................................................
80
Using Disk Cleanup
...........................................................................................................
80
Replacing the hard drive
....................................................................................................................
81
7
External devices and external media cards
Using a USB device
...........................................................................................................................
85
Connecting a USB device
..................................................................................................
85
Removing a USB device
....................................................................................................
86
Using Digital Media Slot cards
...........................................................................................................
87
Inserting a digital card
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87
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