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Power Management ................................................................................. 32
Sleep Mode......................................................................................... 32
Hibernate Mode .................................................................................. 32
Display ......................................................................................................... 33
Opening and Closing the Display ............................................................. 33
Screen Resolution ..................................................................................... 34
Personalization Appearance and Sound.................................................... 34
Connecting an External Monitor ............................................................... 35
Duplicating the Desktop ..................................................................... 35
Extending the Desktop ........................................................................ 36
Data Entry..................................................................................................... 37
The Keyboard ........................................................................................... 37
Notebook-Specific Key Combinations.................................................. 37
Touch Pad ................................................................................................ 38
The Hard drive .............................................................................................. 39
Important Directories................................................................................ 40
The Optical Drive.......................................................................................... 41
Loading a Disc .......................................................................................... 41
Emergency Ejection of a Blocked Disc.................................................. 43
Playing Back and Retrieving Data from Discs ....................................... 43
Regional Playback Information for DVD .................................................... 43
Subjects Concerning the CD/DVD-Rewriter .............................................. 44
Recordable/Rewriteable Discs.............................................................. 44
The Sound Card............................................................................................ 45
External Audio Ports.................................................................................. 46
The Network................................................................................................. 47
What is a network? ................................................................................... 47
Ethernet-Network................................................................................ 47
Wireless LAN ....................................................................................... 48
Troubleshooting within the Network .................................................. 49
The Multimedia Card Reader......................................................................... 50
Inserting Memory Cards ........................................................................... 50
Removing Memory Cards ......................................................................... 50
Express Card ................................................................................................. 51
Installing Express Card.............................................................................. 51
Removing Express Card ............................................................................ 51
Universal Serial Bus (USB) Port ...................................................................... 52
IEEE 1394 (FireWire)...................................................................................... 53
Application Options for IEEE1394 ............................................................. 53
Technical Specifications ............................................................................ 53
Securing the Notebook ................................................................................. 54
Fingerprint Sensor .................................................................................... 54
Startup Password...................................................................................... 54
Using a safety lock .................................................................................... 54
Software ....................................................................................................... 55
Getting to Know Windows Vista
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Windows Vista
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