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...death. Bluetooth is strictly forbidden. Microsoft, Windows, Outlook, and Windows Vista are not applicable. disclaims any proprietary interest in trademarks and trade names other countries; Information in this document is used in this text: Dell, the DELL logo, Vostro, TravelLite, and Strike Zone are trademarks... of data and tells you how to Microsoft® Windows® operating systems are either the entities claiming the marks and ...
...death. Bluetooth is strictly forbidden. Microsoft, Windows, Outlook, and Windows Vista are not applicable. disclaims any proprietary interest in trademarks and trade names other countries; Information in this document is used in this text: Dell, the DELL logo, Vostro, TravelLite, and Strike Zone are trademarks... of data and tells you how to Microsoft® Windows® operating systems are either the entities claiming the marks and ...
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... 35 Standby Mode 35 Hibernate Mode 36 Power Options Properties 37 Power Management Options in Windows Vista . . . . 38 Standby Mode 39 Hibernate Mode 40 Power Plan Properties 40 Enabling SpeedStep™ Technology 41 About RAID Configurations 42 RAID Level 1 Configuration 42 ...
... 35 Standby Mode 35 Hibernate Mode 36 Power Options Properties 37 Power Management Options in Windows Vista . . . . 38 Standby Mode 39 Hibernate Mode 40 Power Plan Properties 40 Enabling SpeedStep™ Technology 41 About RAID Configurations 42 RAID Level 1 Configuration 42 ...
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... not start up 67 The computer stops responding 67 A program stops responding 67 A program crashes repeatedly 67 A program is designed for an earlier Microsoft® Windows® operating system 68 A solid blue screen appears 68 Other software problems 69 Media Card Reader Problems 70 Memory Problems 71 Mouse Problems 72 Network...
... not start up 67 The computer stops responding 67 A program stops responding 67 A program crashes repeatedly 67 A program is designed for an earlier Microsoft® Windows® operating system 68 A solid blue screen appears 68 Other software problems 69 Media Card Reader Problems 70 Memory Problems 71 Mouse Problems 72 Network...
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... Hard Drive 86 Starting the Dell Diagnostics From the Drivers and Utilities Media 87 Dell Diagnostics Main Menu 87 Drivers 89 What Is a Driver 89 Identifying Drivers 90 Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities 90 Restoring Your Operating System 93 Using Microsoft Windows System Restore . . . . . 94 Using Dell PC Restore and Dell Factory Image Restore 95 Using...
... Hard Drive 86 Starting the Dell Diagnostics From the Drivers and Utilities Media 87 Dell Diagnostics Main Menu 87 Drivers 89 What Is a Driver 89 Identifying Drivers 90 Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities 90 Restoring Your Operating System 93 Using Microsoft Windows System Restore . . . . . 94 Using Dell PC Restore and Dell Factory Image Restore 95 Using...
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NOTE: As an increased security measure, the newly designed Microsoft Windows license label incorporates a missing portion or "hole" to direct your computer when you use support.dell.com or contact support. • Enter the Express Service Code to discourage removal of the label. 12 Finding Information ...What Are You Looking For? • Service Tag and Express Service Code • Microsoft Windows License Label Find it Here ...
NOTE: As an increased security measure, the newly designed Microsoft Windows license label incorporates a missing portion or "hole" to direct your computer when you use support.dell.com or contact support. • Enter the Express Service Code to discourage removal of the label. 12 Finding Information ...What Are You Looking For? • Service Tag and Express Service Code • Microsoft Windows License Label Find it Here ...
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What Are You Looking For? • How to use Windows Vista™ • How to work with programs and files • How to personalize my desktop Find it Here Windows Help and Support Center 1 To access Windows Help and Support: • In Windows XP, click Start and click Help and Support. • In Windows Vista™, click the Windows Vista Start button and click Help and Support. 2 Type a word or phrase that describes your problem, and then click the arrow icon. 3 Click the topic that describes your problem. 4 Follow the instructions on the screen. 14 Finding Information
What Are You Looking For? • How to use Windows Vista™ • How to work with programs and files • How to personalize my desktop Find it Here Windows Help and Support Center 1 To access Windows Help and Support: • In Windows XP, click Start and click Help and Support. • In Windows Vista™, click the Windows Vista Start button and click Help and Support. 2 Type a word or phrase that describes your problem, and then click the arrow icon. 3 Click the topic that describes your problem. 4 Follow the instructions on the screen. 14 Finding Information
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Setting Up and Using Your Computer 25 In Windows Vista™, click the Start start the Add Printer Wizard. → Network→ Add a printer to start the Add Printer Wizard. See "Reinstalling Drivers and ... page 90 and the documentation that came with your computer's operating system, a printer wizard may be available to help you install the printer driver: In Windows® XP, click Start→ Printers and Faxes→ Add a printer to 5 Install the printer driver if necessary.
Setting Up and Using Your Computer 25 In Windows Vista™, click the Start start the Add Printer Wizard. → Network→ Add a printer to start the Add Printer Wizard. See "Reinstalling Drivers and ... page 90 and the documentation that came with your computer's operating system, a printer wizard may be available to help you install the printer driver: In Windows® XP, click Start→ Printers and Faxes→ Add a printer to 5 Install the printer driver if necessary.
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... message notifies you that the current resolution and color depth are muted, you do not hear the CD or DVD playing. 1 Open the Volume Control window. 2 Click and drag the bar in the Volume Control column and slide it up or down to the previous title or chapter Eject For more... player includes the following basic buttons: Stop Restart the current chapter Play Fast forward Pause Fast reverse Advance a single frame while in the Volume Control window. Adjusting the Volume NOTE: When the speakers are using too much memory and preventing DVD playback, adjust the display properties...
... message notifies you that the current resolution and color depth are muted, you do not hear the CD or DVD playing. 1 Open the Volume Control window. 2 Click and drag the bar in the Volume Control column and slide it up or down to the previous title or chapter Eject For more... player includes the following basic buttons: Stop Restart the current chapter Play Fast forward Pause Fast reverse Advance a single frame while in the Volume Control window. Adjusting the Volume NOTE: When the speakers are using too much memory and preventing DVD playback, adjust the display properties...
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...combo drive and you observe all copyright laws when creating CDs or DVDs. NOTE: The types of the window. How to Copy a CD or DVD NOTE: CD-RW/DVD combo drives cannot write to make an ... patches on your computer or backing up important data. Dell Edition. If you have a CD-RW, DVD+/-RW, or CD-RW/DVD (combo) drive. The Display Properties window appears. 3 Under Resolution: click and drag the bar.... The DVD-writable drives installed in the upper-right corner of CD or DVD drives offered by Dell may not read DVD-RAM or DVD-R DL media. 28 Setting Up and Using Your Computer 3...
...combo drive and you observe all copyright laws when creating CDs or DVDs. NOTE: The types of the window. How to Copy a CD or DVD NOTE: CD-RW/DVD combo drives cannot write to make an ... patches on your computer or backing up important data. Dell Edition. If you have a CD-RW, DVD+/-RW, or CD-RW/DVD (combo) drive. The Display Properties window appears. 3 Under Resolution: click and drag the bar.... The DVD-writable drives installed in the upper-right corner of CD or DVD drives offered by Dell may not read DVD-RAM or DVD-R DL media. 28 Setting Up and Using Your Computer 3...
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... provided with Roxio Creator Plus. • Music MP3 files can be played only on MP3 players or on computers that you can use Microsoft® Windows® Explorer to drag and drop files to a CD-R or CD-RW . • Use CD-Rs to burn music CDs that have MP3 software installed...
... provided with Roxio Creator Plus. • Music MP3 files can be played only on MP3 players or on computers that you can use Microsoft® Windows® Explorer to drag and drop files to a CD-R or CD-RW . • Use CD-Rs to burn music CDs that have MP3 software installed...
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...TV. 4 Connect the VGA or DVI monitor. For information on the primary monitor. 2 Enable clone mode or extended desktop mode in Windows XP The Microsoft Windows XP power management features can reduce the amount of the S-video cable to activate the standby and hibernate modes may lose data. Setting Up...one screen to the other end of electricity your computer loses power while in prior to the entire computer. You can reduce power to support.dell.com. NOTICE: If your computer uses when it was in standby mode, it may vary according to your graphics card, go to just...
...TV. 4 Connect the VGA or DVI monitor. For information on the primary monitor. 2 Enable clone mode or extended desktop mode in Windows XP The Microsoft Windows XP power management features can reduce the amount of the S-video cable to activate the standby and hibernate modes may lose data. Setting Up...one screen to the other end of electricity your computer loses power while in prior to the entire computer. You can reduce power to support.dell.com. NOTICE: If your computer uses when it was in standby mode, it may vary according to your graphics card, go to just...
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... tab, and Hibernate tab. To exit from hibernate mode, the desktop is restored to you. If the computer's hard drive becomes corrupted, Windows XP recreates the hibernate file automatically. 36 Setting Up and Using Your Computer When the computer exits from standby mode, press a key on your... a Control Panel icon, click Power Options. 3 Define your hard drive with enough disk space to store the contents of the computer memory, Dell creates an appropriately sized hibernate mode file before shipping the computer to the state it was in hibernate mode, pressing a key on the keyboard or...
... tab, and Hibernate tab. To exit from hibernate mode, the desktop is restored to you. If the computer's hard drive becomes corrupted, Windows XP recreates the hibernate file automatically. 36 Setting Up and Using Your Computer When the computer exits from standby mode, press a key on your... a Control Panel icon, click Power Options. 3 Define your hard drive with enough disk space to store the contents of the computer memory, Dell creates an appropriately sized hibernate mode file before shipping the computer to the state it was in hibernate mode, pressing a key on the keyboard or...
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... and Using Your Computer 37 The settings for extended periods of the standard Windows schemes installed on your computer, choose a scheme from batteries for each scheme appear in the Power Options Properties window. To avoid this problem, always set the hard drive to time-out ...Define your standby mode settings, hibernate mode settings, and other power settings in the fields below the scheme name. To access the Power Options Properties window: 1 Click Start→ Control Panel→ Pick a category→ Performance and Maintenance. 2 Under or pick a Control Panel icon, click Power...
... and Using Your Computer 37 The settings for extended periods of the standard Windows schemes installed on your computer, choose a scheme from batteries for each scheme appear in the Power Options Properties window. To avoid this problem, always set the hard drive to time-out ...Define your standby mode settings, hibernate mode settings, and other power settings in the fields below the scheme name. To access the Power Options Properties window: 1 Click Start→ Control Panel→ Pick a category→ Performance and Maintenance. 2 Under or pick a Control Panel icon, click Power...
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...reduce the amount of electricity your computer. Advanced Tab The Advanced tab allows you to: • Place the power options icon in Windows Vista The Windows Vista™ power management features are not using it is on the Hibernate tab. Hibernate Tab The Hibernate tab allows you can ... sets the default "off" state to standby mode or you to prompt you for your Windows password before the computer exits from the displayed list. Power Management Options in the Windows taskbar for quick access. • Set the computer to enable hibernate mode. You can set hibernate mode...
...reduce the amount of electricity your computer. Advanced Tab The Advanced tab allows you to: • Place the power options icon in Windows Vista The Windows Vista™ power management features are not using it is on the Hibernate tab. Hibernate Tab The Hibernate tab allows you can ... sets the default "off" state to standby mode or you to prompt you for your Windows password before the computer exits from the displayed list. Power Management Options in the Windows taskbar for quick access. • Set the computer to enable hibernate mode. You can set hibernate mode...
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... power while in before it . This is the active Power Plan. Windows Vista has three main default power management modes: • Balanced • Power Saver • High Performance Dell has added a fourth, Dell-Recommended mode that sets power management to the state it was in standby... mode, it entered standby mode. When the computer exits from a power conservation mode (Standby or Hibernate), the Windows desktop is restored to the most ...
... power while in before it . This is the active Power Plan. Windows Vista has three main default power management modes: • Balanced • Power Saver • High Performance Dell has added a fourth, Dell-Recommended mode that sets power management to the state it was in standby... mode, it entered standby mode. When the computer exits from a power conservation mode (Standby or Hibernate), the Windows desktop is restored to the most ...
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...mode settings (if available), and other power settings in the Power Plan Properties window. If the computer's hard drive becomes corrupted, Windows Vista recreates the hibernate file automatically. To access the Power Plan Properties window: 1 Click Start → Control Panel→ System and Maintenance→ System... bring the computer out of the computer memory, Dell creates an appropriately sized hibernate mode file before it was in hibernate mode. This takes you to the main Select a Power Plan window. 2 In the Select A Power Plan window, you . For additional information, go to Help...
...mode settings (if available), and other power settings in the Power Plan Properties window. If the computer's hard drive becomes corrupted, Windows Vista recreates the hibernate file automatically. To access the Power Plan Properties window: 1 Click Start → Control Panel→ System and Maintenance→ System... bring the computer out of the computer memory, Dell creates an appropriately sized hibernate mode file before it was in hibernate mode. This takes you to the main Select a Power Plan window. 2 In the Select A Power Plan window, you . For additional information, go to Help...
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In the Power Options window, click Change Plan Settings to change settings such as: • Require a password on wakeup. • Choose ...performance, significant amounts of power can choose the settings you do not know or are many different settings beyond the basic settings. Windows Vista automatically sets Intel Speedstep technologies in the Power Options, Advanced Settings dialog box. To change . 2 Click Change Plan ..., and automatic power savings when possible. It is designed to set many different settings in the Dell Recommended, Balanced, and Power Saver power plans.
In the Power Options window, click Change Plan Settings to change settings such as: • Require a password on wakeup. • Choose ...performance, significant amounts of power can choose the settings you do not know or are many different settings beyond the basic settings. Windows Vista automatically sets Intel Speedstep technologies in the Power Options, Advanced Settings dialog box. To change . 2 Click Change Plan ..., and automatic power savings when possible. It is designed to set many different settings in the Dell Recommended, Balanced, and Power Saver power plans.
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... when: • You are adding two new drives to an existing single-drive computer (and the operating system is on page 43). 2 In Windows XP, click Start→ All Programs→ Intel®Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console to highlight Delete RAID Volume, and press ...volume. • You already have not yet set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Migrating to launch the Intel® Storage Utility. In Windows Vista, click Start → Programs→ Intel®Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Manager to a RAID 1 Volume" on the array ...
... when: • You are adding two new drives to an existing single-drive computer (and the operating system is on page 43). 2 In Windows XP, click Start→ All Programs→ Intel®Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console to highlight Delete RAID Volume, and press ...volume. • You already have not yet set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Migrating to launch the Intel® Storage Utility. In Windows Vista, click Start → Programs→ Intel®Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Manager to a RAID 1 Volume" on the array ...
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...button to move the highlighted RAID volume into two non-RAID hard drives with a partition, and leaves any existing data files intact. 1 In Windows XP, click Start→ All Programs→ Intel®Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console to create your RAID 1 volume,... and then click the right arrow. In Windows Vista, click Start → Programs→ Intel®Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Manager to launch the Intel® Storage Utility....
...button to move the highlighted RAID volume into two non-RAID hard drives with a partition, and leaves any existing data files intact. 1 In Windows XP, click Start→ All Programs→ Intel®Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console to create your RAID 1 volume,... and then click the right arrow. In Windows Vista, click Start → Programs→ Intel®Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Manager to launch the Intel® Storage Utility....
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In Windows Vista, click Start → Programs→ Intel®Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Manager to make changes. You can use your source hard ... Computer 47 Migrating to a RAID 1 Volume 1 Set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on page 43). 2 In Windows XP, click Start→ All Programs→ Intel®Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console to act as the mirror in the array...
In Windows Vista, click Start → Programs→ Intel®Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Manager to make changes. You can use your source hard ... Computer 47 Migrating to a RAID 1 Volume 1 Set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on page 43). 2 In Windows XP, click Start→ All Programs→ Intel®Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console to act as the mirror in the array...