Re: initial setup of a new laptop?
Hi.
I am not sure what is installed on your laptop because I am not sure about manufacturer.
For my toshiba i5 c850.
I start windows.
I have 7 but its basically the same with most things.
You may or may not have sound during startup, but if you do you will know.
narator will work for you.
You need
1. set your country and other user settings.
I suggest your first account should be a local account.
If you have a wireless connection the system whould find it straight away and all you need to do is select the ssid and the password needs to be typed in.
I recomend you create a local account first then if you want set up an ms id for cloud use if you want those services.
Ofcause I have come to the conclusion, that the cloud accounts really are not needed since if your only account is a cloud one and you loose the password or the net breaks, the only way to fix it is to reformat the computer.
And before people jump d
own my throat on this I have done searches on this and have not found any answer how to recover from only having 1 single online account.
On all laptops, you should uninstall ms office trial.
norton everything.
clickfree, record now, any wild tangent stuff including games.
splashtop which is inaccessable which is a pitty because from what people have said about it its really good but we can't use it.
in addition I uninstalled config free from my box because its not visual.
If you have any enhancements to your sound card, turn them off.
They may sound good for music but for speech they don't work well, anyway your speakers are just being made to sound good when they really are not to much.
I suggest a volume of 70% and a quiet room to use the unit or headphones or external speakers for optimal useage.
You should set if the bios setup has it active, in toshiba thats easy to do but in others you will need sight, to have the f
unction keys that use the fn key to be disabled.
The reason is that at first setup, the fn keys are in a overlay which is fine but keys f1 up don't work with pushing the fn key and you really don't want that.
I also suggest upgrading all drivers including bios if there are updates from the manufacturer's site but also to then update all drivers from their generic manufacturers site since the standard ones are not usually the current one.
Most systems should have either intel or amd cpus, hd audio and graphics.
Most units I have seen toshiba wise anyway have realtech chipsets audio right now is 2.73.
You will want to install all programs, and updates.
you will want to download 8.1 and install that and all its updates.
You will want to clear anything from starting up that you don't need most of mine is hardware drivers.
in my case I got rid of toshiba bullitin board and turned off the touch pad because I don't use it.
I also made a backup of my recovery partition and happily downgraded to win7 which does not have the stupid windows 8 metro interface and stuff I won't use.
and I also loaded firefox.
If you really care though and have theos say 8 or 7, find out what os the laptop will support most will support 7 in my case mine did.
I have not done this but getting and reformatting and reinstalling win7 using the code on the base of the unit as a product key to activate and then loading only the drivers and stuff you need.
I should at this point apologise to the touch users out there.
I have not yet needed to use touch and have been primarily a keyboard user.
And I think as long as I can still use the keyboard I will not be using touch at all at least till I need to.
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