Displaying the remaining battery charge ....................................................................... 31
Maximizing battery discharge time ................................................................................ 31
Managing low battery levels ........................................................................................... 31
Identifying low battery levels ...................................................................... 31
Resolving a low battery level ....................................................................... 31
Conserving battery power .............................................................................................. 32
Using external AC power ................................................................................................................... 32
7 External cards and devices ........................................................................................................................... 33
Using Micro SD memory cards ............................................................................................................................. 33
Inserting a digital card ...................................................................................................................... 33
Removing a digital card ..................................................................................................................... 33
Using a USB device ............................................................................................................................................... 34
Connecting a USB device ................................................................................................................... 34
Removing a USB device ..................................................................................................................... 35
Using optional external devices .......................................................................................................................... 35
Using optional external drives .......................................................................................................... 35
Using the docking connector ............................................................................................................. 36
8 Drives ......................................................................................................................................................... 38
Using optional external hard drives (select models only) .................................................................................. 38
Improving hard drive performance ................................................................................................... 38
Using Disk Defragmenter ................................................................................................ 38
Using Disk Cleanup .......................................................................................................... 38
Using optional external optical drives (select models only) ............................................................................... 38
Identifying the installed optional external optical drive .................................................................. 39
Inserting an optical disc .................................................................................................................... 39
Tray-load ......................................................................................................................... 39
Slot-load .......................................................................................................................... 39
Removing an optical disc .................................................................................................................. 40
Tray-load ......................................................................................................................... 40
When the disc tray opens normally .............................................................. 40
When the disc tray fails to open normally ................................................... 40
Slot-load .......................................................................................................................... 41
Sharing optical drives ........................................................................................................................ 42
9 Security ...................................................................................................................................................... 43
Protecting the computer ..................................................................................................................................... 43
Using passwords .................................................................................................................................................. 43
Setting passwords in Windows ......................................................................................................... 44
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