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Beginning to Use the Notebook

Using the Documentation Library CD

This section describes how to select a guide and find a specific topic within a guide.

For information about using documentation symbols, text styles, and paths, refer in this guide to the preface, “Using This Guide.”

Selecting a Guide

Information about the notebook is provided in the 7 guides described in the following table.

For Information About These TopicsSelect This Guide

 

 

 

Using the external hardware features

Hardware Guide

 

identified in Chapter 4 of this guide.

 

Running the notebook on a

 

 

battery pack.

 

Upgrading memory.

 

Power and environmental

 

 

specifications.

 

 

 

 

Playing, creating, or copying CDs

Software Guide

 

or DVDs.

 

Using Standby and Hibernation and selecting power preferences.

Using security features, such as passwords, to protect against unauthorized access to the notebook.

Updating or restoring Compaq software.

Using the MultiBoot, Compaq Diagnostics, and Computer Setup utilities.

Using the modem.

Modem and

Using a network connection.

Networking

 

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Getting Started