User Guide - Windows 7

Displaying the remaining battery charge ........................................................... 33
Maximizing battery discharge time .................................................................... 33
Managing low battery levels .............................................................................. 33
Identifying low battery levels ............................................................. 33
Resolving a low battery level ............................................................ 34
Conserving battery power ................................................................................. 34
Using external AC power ................................................................................................... 34
7 External cards and devices ............................................................................................................................. 36
Using Micro SD memory cards ........................................................................................................... 36
Inserting a digital card ........................................................................................................ 36
Removing a digital card ..................................................................................................... 36
Using smart cards .............................................................................................................................. 37
Inserting a smart card ........................................................................................................ 37
Removing a smart card ...................................................................................................... 37
Using a USB device ........................................................................................................................... 38
Connecting a USB device .................................................................................................. 38
Removing a USB device .................................................................................................... 38
Using optional external devices .......................................................................................................... 39
Using optional external drives ............................................................................................ 39
Using the docking connector ............................................................................................. 39
8 Drives .............................................................................................................................................................. 42
Using hard drives ............................................................................................................................... 42
Improving hard drive performance ..................................................................................... 42
Using Disk Defragmenter .................................................................................. 42
Using Disk Cleanup ........................................................................................... 42
Using optional external optical drives (select models only) ................................................................ 42
Identifying the installed optional external optical drive ....................................................... 43
Inserting an optical disc ..................................................................................................... 43
Tray-load ........................................................................................................... 43
Slot-load ............................................................................................................ 43
Removing an optical disc ................................................................................................... 44
Tray-load ........................................................................................................... 44
When the disc tray opens normally .................................................. 44
When the disc tray fails to open normally ......................................... 45
Slot-load ............................................................................................................ 45
Sharing optical drives ........................................................................................................ 46
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