23: Ten Battery Tips and Tricks Don't Drop the Battery, Get It Wet, Short It, Play Keep-Away with It, Open It, Burn It, or Throw It Away Reduce the Screen’s Brightness Power Down the Hard Drive Add RAM to Prevent Virtual Memory Disk Swapping Keep Memory Empty Guard the Battery's Terminals Avoid Extreme Temperatures Store the Battery if You Don't Plan to Use It Understand That Batteries Drain Over Time! Deal with the Low-Battery Warning Chapter 24: Ten Handy Laptop Accessories Laptop Bag or Travel Case Spare Battery External Storage Cooling Pad Minivac USB Lamp Full-Size Keyboard and External Mouse Privacy Screen Filter ID Card or Return Service Sticker Theft-Prevention System Chapter 25: Ten Things to Throw in Your Laptop Bag Power Cord and Brick Spare Battery Mouse or Digital Pen Screen Wipes and Cleaner Laptop Lock Removable Media Headphones Office Supplies Cables, Cables, Cables Not the End of the List
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List of Tables
1 Chapter 6TABLE 6-1 Laptop Ports and Their Symbols, Designs, and ColorsTABLE 6-2 Pretty Laptop Lights
2 Chapter 7TABLE 7-1 Pen and Mouse Actions
3 Chapter 12TABLE 12-1 USB Color CodesTABLE 12-2 Typical, Plain, Boring Uses for the USB Port
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1FIGURE 1-1: A late-model Osborne.FIGURE 1-2: The luggable Compaq Portable.FIGURE 1-3: The Radio Shack Model 100.FIGURE 1-4: The Compaq III.FIGURE 1-5: The Compaq SLT.FIGURE 1-6: The NEC UltraLite.FIGURE 1-7: A netbook PC, circa 2008.FIGURE 1-8: A tablet PC.
2 Chapter 3FIGURE 3-1: Plugging in your laptop.
3 Chapter 4FIGURE 4-1: Likely locations for laptop lid latches.FIGURE 4-2: Adjust the lid so that you view the screen at an angle that's just ...FIGURE 4-3: The Windows 10 sign-in screen.FIGURE 4-4: Finding your User Profile folder.
4 Chapter 5FIGURE 5-1: Power options on the Start menu.FIGURE 5-2: Account options on the Start menu.FIGURE 5-3: The Power Options menu, featuring the Hibernate command.FIGURE 5-4: Setting options for various power buttons and the lid.
5 Chapter 6FIGURE 6-1: Typical laptop keyboard layout.FIGURE 6-2: The hidden numeric keypad.FIGURE 6-3: Fn keys and function keys.FIGURE 6-4: Touchpad varieties.
6 Chapter 7FIGURE 7-1: Various types of tablet PC.FIGURE 7-2: A typical tablet PC stylus.FIGURE 7-3: The touch keyboard keys.FIGURE 7-4: The keyboard selection menu.FIGURE 7-5: The pen input pad.FIGURE 7-6: Tablet mode.
7 Chapter 8FIGURE 8-1: The Windows desktop.FIGURE 8-2: Things to look for on the Start button menu.FIGURE 8-3: The Windows taskbar.FIGURE 8-4: The Action Center.FIGURE 8-5: The This PC window.FIGURE 8-6: The User Profile folder.FIGURE 8-7: The Settings app.FIGURE 8-8: The Control Panel.FIGURE 8-9: The Control Panel’s Windows Mobility Center window.
8 Chapter 9FIGURE 9-1: Account information in the Settings app.FIGURE 9-2: Taking a selfie for your account image.FIGURE 9-3: An AutoPlay notification and options.FIGURE 9-4: Safely removing a storage device.
9 Chapter 10FIGURE 10-1: Battery notification on the taskbar.FIGURE 10-2: Power Options for setting low battery warnings and actions.
10 Chapter 11FIGURE 11-1: The Add Printers & Scanners window.FIGURE 11-2: A typical Print dialog box.
11 Chapter 12FIGURE 12-1: The A and B ends of a USB cable.FIGURE 12-2: Bluetooth options.FIGURE 12-3: The second display projection panel.
12 Chapter 14FIGURE 14-1: The PowerPoint Print screen.
13 Chapter 15FIGURE 15-1: Windows Media Player.FIGURE 15-2: The Photos app.FIGURE 15-3: Viewing an image in the Photos app.FIGURE 15-4: The Groove Music app.FIGURE 15-5: Copying music from a CD.FIGURE 15-6: Copying images from a smartphone to a laptop.FIGURE 15-7: The Camera app.FIGURE 15-8: Accessing media on another network PC.
14 Chapter 16FIGURE 16-1: A typical computer network.FIGURE 16-2: Selecting a Wi-Fi network.FIGURE 16-3: Disconnecting from a wireless network.
15 Chapter 17FIGURE 17-1: The Network & Internet Status screen.FIGURE 17-2: The Public or Private setting.FIGURE 17-3: Disabling the Wi-Fi radio.FIGURE 17-4: The laptop’s network name.FIGURE 17-5: Computers sharing the same local network.FIGURE 17-6: A folder’s Advanced Sharing dialog box.
16 Chapter 18FIGURE 18-1: The ugly cable thing.FIGURE 18-2: OneDrive folders on a laptop.FIGURE 18-3: OneDrive folders on the Internet.FIGURE 18-4: Saving a document on OneDrive storage.
17 Chapter 19FIGURE 19-1: The Action Center.FIGURE 19-2: The Windows Security Center.FIGURE 19-3: Windows Security Center antivirus.FIGURE 19-4: Is it okay for this program to access the Internet?
18 Chapter 20FIGURE 20-1: Checking File History settings.FIGURE 20-2: Previous versions of a file.FIGURE 20-3: The File History window.
19 Chapter 21FIGURE 21-1: The Windows Troubleshooter.
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