TY2009 AARP Dell Vostro 1520 Laptop Tune-up

14.In Control Panel > Display Properties

a.On the Desktop tab, click “Customize Desktop”

i.In Desktop icons, check “My Network Places”

ii.In Desktop Cleanup, uncheck “Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard every 60 days”

iii.Click OK.

b.On the Screen Saver tab,

i.Change the Wait interval to 10 minutes

ii.Check the box “On Resume, password protect”

iii.Click OK.

15.In Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy > Security Settings

>Local Policies > Security Options

a.Double click on “Interactive Login: Do not require CTL+ALT+DEL”

b.In the box that opens, select “Disabled”

c.Click OK

17.OPTIONAL. Although OpenOffice.org is already installed, you may want to install the free viewers for Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, and Power Point. You can download these from the Microsoft Office downloads web site:

a.Word Viewer 2003 – wordview_en-us.exe from this page: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3657CE88- 7CFA-457A-9AEC-F4F827F20CAC&DisplayLang=en

b.Excel Viewer 2003 - ExcelViewer.exe from this page: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1cd6acf9-ce06-4e1c-8dcf-f33f669dbc3a&displaylang=en

c.PowerPoint Viewer 2003 - PowerPointViewer.exe from this page: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=048DC840-14E1-467D-8DCA-19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en

d.To use these three viewers for Office 2007 documents you also need to first run Microsoft Update, (and the Office Compatibility Pack) from this page: http://www.update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/default.aspx?ln=en-us

e.After running Microsoft Update you need to install this Office Compatibility Pack from this web page: http://www.microsoft.com:80/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941b3470- 3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en

18.OPTIONAL – If this computer will ever be connected to the Internet, the current Microsoft High Priority updates should be installed. It is impossible for us to know exactly what updates will be needed.

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