TY2009 AARP Dell Vostro 1520 Laptop Tune-up

8.Under START > Control Panel > Security Center, turn off automatic updates. This is important so that we can control the sequence of update events as we use Windows Update, below.

We do not recommend that Windows Automatic Updates be turned back on during the tax season so that unwanted updates that may disturb tax preparation will not be installed automatically. We do recommend running with AVG Internet Security updates enabled.

9.OPTIONAL: If you do not want error balloons to be displayed that complain about Automatic Updates being turned off, you can disable the Windows service that displays them, as follows:

a.Click START > Settings > Control Panel > Security Center >

b.Click on the “change the way Security Center alerts me” in the Resources box.

c.Now uncheck the three checked boxed for ‘Firewall’, ‘Automatic Updates” and ‘Virus Protection’.

d.Click OK and close the Security Center.

10.This is important to your EROs.

In Control Panel > Date and Time > Date and Time > Time Zone, select the appropriate time zone, click Apply, and set the clock to the correct date and time.

11.OPTIONAL: This step changes a user account and password to correspond with those established for TY2009 on the IRS Computer Loan Program machines. This is a suggestion, not a mandate. One reason for doing this is for IRS and non-IRS computers to network with one another more easily. It is a better security practice for the Windows volunteer user log-in password to be different in each Tax-Aide district, rather than be the same password that is known to all Tax-Aide volunteers nation-wide.

In Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > System Tools > Local Users and Groups > Users:

a.Right click on the “volunteer” account and select Properties. Set Full Name to “volunteer” and click OK.

b.Change the password of the volunteer user account to the password of the user account from the IRS password letter for tax year 2009, or to a different value specified for use in this tax season by state, district, or local AARP Tax- Aide technology leaders.

12.In Control Panel > Folder Options

a.On the General tab, select “Show common tasks in folders.”

b.Click OK.

13.In Control Panel > Network Connections, Disable the 1394 connection.

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1520 specifications

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