Chapter 4 Learning More About

Your Computer

65

 

 

Open the Battery desk accessory

66

Open the PowerBook control panel 66

Use Balloon Help

67

 

 

 

Turn on Balloon Help

67

 

Turn off Balloon Help

68

 

Using floppy disks

69

 

 

 

Taking care of floppy disks

69

Floppy disks and hard disks

70

Use Part III of this book

71

 

 

What next?

71

 

 

 

n Part III

PowerBook Reference 73

Chapter 5

Setting up Your Programs 73

Installing or updating system software

73

Before you install 74

 

Installing system software 74

 

Installing customized system software 76

Starting up with a floppy disk

77

Installing your programs

78

 

 

 

Installing programs without a floppy disk drive

78

Checking for computer viruses

79

 

 

Working with several programs at a time 80

 

Finding out what programs are open

80

 

Switching programs

80

 

 

 

Hiding and showing windows on the desktop

80

Changing the amount of memory a program uses 81

Using the Scrapbook 82

 

 

 

 

Storing items in the Scrapbook

82

 

 

Copying items from the Scrapbook

82

 

Deleting items from the Scrapbook

82

 

Using a RAM disk 83

 

 

 

 

Creating a RAM disk

83

 

 

 

Erasing a RAM disk

84

 

 

 

Resizing or removing a RAM disk

84

 

Making a RAM disk the startup disk

85

 

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