User manual TOSHIBA SATELLITE 4080XCDT

[. . . ] TOSHIBA Satellite 4000CDT/XCDT series For models: 4030CDT 4060CDT 4080XCDT 4085XCDT GUIDE We want to hear from you! Toshiba welcomes your evaluation of this manual. Your comments provide valuable information which will help us improve our documentation. Satellite® 4000CDT7XCDT Series User's Guide Please check one choice for each of the following: This is my very first computer. yes no This is my first notebook computer. 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[. . . ] Toshiba also added a tab to the Microsoft Windows power management utility. Together, these features allow you to ascertain certain sys tem details, set additional options, and change default options. The Toshiba utilities are: Fn-esseTM Hardware Setup TSETUP Toshiba Power Extensions Fn-esse Fn-esse provides quick ways to open programs, documents, and folders from within any Windows program without using the Start menu. This section describes how to use the Fn-esse program to quickly access your programs and files. Toshiba Utilities Fn-esse With Fn-esse, you can assign Fn key combination to perform the following tasks: Open a Windows program. Open a file in its associated Windows program. Display a customized folder of Windows programs and/or files from which to choose. Starling Fn-esse 1 Click Start, point to Programs, Toshiba Utilities, then click Fn-esse. The Fn-esse icon appears on the taskbar. 2 Click the Fn-esse icon. The Fn-esse window appears, displaying the Fn-esse key board. flswonments. . . Options Help The Fn-esse window The keys on the Fn-esse keyboard are color-coded as follows: Available keys are black. Assigned keys are blue. Unavailable keys are dark gray. Keys associated with a popup list have a small dot in the upperleft corner of the key. Part I: Getting To Know Your Computer Toshiba Utilities Fn-esse Assigning a key to a program or document There are three ways to assign a key to open a program or document: Drag-and-drop. The Fn-esse Browser dialog box. The Fn-esse Application Explorer popup list. The method most often used is drag-and-drop. Using drag-and-drop To assign a key to a program or document: 1 Open both Fn-esse and Windows Explorer. 2 3 Resize and move the Explorer window so that you can see both the Fn-esse keyboard and Explorer at the same time. In the Explorer window, highlight the program or document file you wish to assign to a key. 4 Click and hold the primary AccuPoint button as you drag the highlighted item from Explorer to the key on the Fn-esse key board to which you wish to assign it. Release the primary AccuPoint button. 5 Fn-esse displays the Add/Edit Command dialog box com pletely filled in to reflect the selected program or document. 6 Click OK to close the Add/Edit Command dialog box with your key assignment in place. The program or document is now associated with the key you just selected. To open the program or document, press Fn plus the appropriate key from within any Windows program. Part I: Getting To Know Your Computer Fn-esse Toshiba Utilities Using the Fn-esse Browser dialog box To assign a key to open a program or document: 1 Start Fn-esse. 2 Click the desired key in the Fn-esse keyboard with the second ary AccuPoint button. Fn-esse displays the Assignment Type dialog box. 3 Click Direct Fn-esse displays the Add/Edit Command dialog box. 4 Enter the Description, Command Line and Working Directory for the new Fn-esse key assignment, or click the Browse button to specify this information. Click OK. 5 Using the Application Explorer popup list To assign a key to open a program or document from a popup list: 1 Start Fn-esse. 2 Click the desired key in the Fn-esse keyboard using the secondary AccuPoint button. Fn-esse displays the Assignment Type dialog box. 3 Click Popup. Fn-esse displays the Application Explorer dialog box. 4 Select the desired folder. The left side of the Application Explorer window displays the folders in the Programs menu. The right side lists the programs and documents in the folder. These are the items that will appear in the popup list. To create a popup list with items from various folders, or to pick only a few items from a folder, cre ate a new folder containing only the desired programs and doc uments. If you are unsure how to do this, refer to your Windows 98 documentation. Part I: Getting To Know Your Computer Toshiba Utilities Fn-esse 5 Click OK. The folder is now associated with the key you just selected. To open a popup list showing the items in that folder, press Fn plus the appropriate key from within any Windows program. Viewing existing key assignments 1 Start Fn-esse. 2 Click the Assignments menu button. Fn-esse displays the Function Key Assignments dialog box. HINT: The Function Key Assignments box lists all the key assignments and the program or document to which each key is assigned. 3 To view the items in a popup list, click the Expand popup lists check box. 4 Click OK. Changing or removing existing key assignments 1 Start Fn-esse. 2 In the Fn-esse keyboard, click the key you want to change using the secondary AccuPoint button. Fn-esse displays the Assignment Type dialog box. 3 Complete one of the following steps: To change the key assignment, click Direct or Popup and continue as if you were creating a new assignment. To remove the key assignment, click Clear. Part I: Getting To Know Your Computer Hardware Setup Toshiba Utilities Hardware Setup Hardware Setup lets you view general system settings and specify the pointing device, display, CPU cache, boot priority, keyboard, USB, PC card, password, device configuration and parallel/printer for your computer. To set the IRQ, I/O Address and DMA channel for communication ports use the Windows 95/98 Device Manager. NOTE: If the supervisor password is set and you log onto the computer with the user password, you cannot access the Hardware Setup program. Accessing Hardware Setup To run Hardware Setup, click Start, point to Settings, click Con trol Panel, and double-click Toshiba Hardware Setup. Hardware Setup window Hardware Setup window Parti: Getting To Know Your Computer Toshiba Utilities Hardware Setup The Hardware Setup window contains the following tabs: Pointing Devices The Pointing Devices tab allows you specify whether you want to use the AccuPoint, a PS/2 mouse or both pointing devices with your computer. Display The Display tab lets you customize your computer's display settings for either the internal LCD screen or for an external monitor. NOTE: When starting the computer in Resume mode, the last configuration is remembered, if data does not appear on the displayyou are using after starting in Resume mode, press Fn + F5. CPU Cache Use the CPU Cache tab to enable or disable the CPU cache, Level 2 cache and to set the Write Policy. Enabling the caches allows much faster system performance. Boot Priority The Boot Priority tab allows you to set the priority for booting the computer from either the diskette drive, hard drive, or CDROM drive. Keyboard Use the Keyboard tab to set key combinations on an external keyboard to emulate the Fn key on the computer's internal key board. Setting an Fn key equivalent lets you use "Hot Keys" by pressing the set combination instead of the Fn key. USB Use the USB tab to enable or disable USB Legacy Emulation. If your operating system does not support USB, you can still use a USB mouse and keyboard by setting the USB Legacy item in TSETUP to Enabled. [. . . ] A unit of RAM used for mem ory expansion. soft keys: Key combinations that emulate keys on the IBM keyboard, change some configuration options, stop program execution, and access the numeric keypad overlay. software: The computer programs or instructions that tell the hardware what tasks to perform. The general classes of software are operat ing systems, applications and utilities. Standby: A feature in Windows 98 that, like Windows 95's Suspend command or Toshiba's Resume Mode, allows you to turn off the computer without exiting your applications and to continue from where you left off when you turn on the computer again. stop bit: In asynchronous serial communications, one or more bits indicating the end of a block of characters. Suspend: A feature in Windows 95 or Windows NT that, like Toshiba's Resume Mode, allows you to turn the computer off without exit ing your applications and to continue from where you left off when you turn the computer on again. Part I: Getting To Know Your Computer synchronous; Having a constant time interval between successive bits, characters or events. Synchronous data transmission requires both the sending and receiving devices to use special synchronizing characters to correct variations in timing between the devices. See also asynchronous. system disk: A diskette that contains the operating system files that are used to start the computer. [. . . ]