User manual SONY VAIO VPC-EE29FX/WI

[. . . ] Financial services may require prior arrangements with participating financial institutions. © 2001 SONY Corporation. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. End user software license agreement This End User Software License Agreement (the EULA) is a legal agreement between you and SONY Corporation (hereinafter referred to as SONY), a corporation organized under Japanese Law, the manufacturer of your SONY computer system (the SONY HARDWARE). Please read this EULA carefully before installing or using the software distributed together with this EULA (the SONY SOFTWARE). By installing or using the SONY SOFTWARE, you agree to be bound by the terms of this EULA. [. . . ] Check the country/region settings, and make sure it matches the place you are dialing from. If you modified your location settings, click Apply, and then click OK. Before applying new country settings, please make sure your phone line is disconnected from your VAIO notebook. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Changing your window design You can change the window design of SONY software compatible with UI Design Selector. To change the window design using UI Design Selector, proceed as follows: Click Start, point Settings, then click Control Panel. The UI Design Selector window design changes, to give you a preview of the design you chose for the SONY software. UI Design Selector disappears and changes the window design of SONY software as you selected. Customizing your notebook About the software on your Sony notebook nN 19 Setting up your notebook The Sony Notebook Setup utility allows you to confirm system information, specify preferences for system behavior, and change hardware settings for your VAIO notebook. To set up your notebook with Sony Notebook Setup, proceed as follows: 1 2 3 4 Click the Start button on the Windows® taskbar. The Basic window appears; you can then enhance the features by clicking the Basic / Advanced tab. This dialog box contains the following tabs: Description Displays system information, including memory capacity, serial number, and BIOS version. Selects the drive and device order you wish to use for loading the operating system. You can specify the hard drive as well as other drives inserted into your computer. You can change the volume of the sounds while the operating system is loading. You can establish settings for LCD (Video) Standby, Hard Disk Standby, and Standby to optimize power management for your system. Communications ­ Extends battery life by initiating a quick display time-out. You can also establish settings for LCD (Video) Standby, Hard Disk Standby, and Standby to optimize power management for your system. Games ­ Disables the display and the Hard Disk Spindle Down timer. Camera ­ Optimizes performance and power requirements for camera usage. Automatic Profile Selection - Analyses the performance of each application you choose and matches the profiles to its needs. Customizing your notebook About the software on your Sony notebook nN 23 Activating power management commands PowerPanel provides power management commands that you can use to activate specific power management functions and to control power for a specific device. You might use these commands when you want to override a profile setting or initiate an immediate action. Icon Description Standby ­ Puts the system into Standby mode, a power management state that saves the state of the system and peripheral devices in memory (RAM). To return the system to the active state, press any key or the power switch on your computer. The system writes the state of the system and peripheral devices to the hard disk and turns off the system power. To return the system to the original state, use the power switch to turn on power. If you turn off the Video Standby Timer, the display remains active except when the system enters Standby mode. [. . . ] According to the option you select, the recovery process will create 1 or 2 partitions on the hard disk. When the recovery process is finished, remove the product recovery CD-ROM from the drive. 3 4 5 6 7 8 Using the product recovery CD-ROMs About the software on your Sony notebook nN 34 9 Press any key to restart your notebook. !Please note that this option will delete all existing data both on the C: and D: drives before starting the recovery. Aborting the recovery process The recovery process always warns you when the decision you are asked to take, cannot be undone. [. . . ]