TY2009 AARP Dell Vostro 1520 Laptop Tune-up
In preparation for the Tax Year 2009 filing season in 2010, this procedure verifies software settings and applies maintenance and upgrades to the Windows and other software of the Dell Vostro 1520 laptop computers that were purchased by the AARP Foundation in early 2010 for use by AARP Tax- Aide volunteers.
Some of these steps verify settings that may have already been established. Some of the steps are optional, and are so marked. In tailoring this procedure for their state, a TCS may omit some or all of the optional material. If a step is not marked optional it should be performed as part of this
Several of the steps below assume that the target computer is connected to the Internet via a broadband connection. If such a connection is not continuously available to you, or if you have several computers to tune up, you may prefer to download some of the large updates one time onto a flash drive or CD and run them many times from there, rather than download them onto each computer that needs to be updated. When this option is available it will be described below as an alternative to the online update step. Some of these downloads may be included in your
1.The Numeric Lock shift may be turned on. The light above the keyboard that looks like an arrow with a 9 inside it should not be lit. If it is, turn it off by pressing Fn + NumLk. The NumLk key is in the first row near the right end.
2.Unplug any Ethernet cables from the computer and turn off the Wide Area Network wireless adapter radio. The WLAN switch is on the left side of the case on the end away from the hinges.
3.Log in to Windows using the Administrator login from your AARP
4.Cancel any AVG scan that may be running.
5.Use the separate instructions provided with the AARP
6.Log in to Windows using the Administrator login from your AARP
7.Cancel any AVG scan that may be running.
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