User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Getting started
- Getting to know your computer
- Connecting to a network
- Enjoying entertainment features
- Navigating the screen
- Managing power
- Using Sleep and Hibernation
- Shutting down (turning off) the computer
- Using the Power icon and Power Options
- Running on battery power
- Running on external power
- Maintaining your computer
- Securing your computer and information
- Using passwords
- Using Windows Hello (select products only)
- Using Internet security software
- Installing software updates
- Using HP Managed Services (select products only)
- Securing your wireless network
- Backing up your software applications and information
- Using an optional security cable (select products only)
- Using Setup Utility (BIOS)
- Using HP PC Hardware Diagnostics
- Backing up, restoring, and recovering
- Using Windows tools for backing up, restoring, and recovering your computer
- Creating HP Recovery media (select products only)
- Restoring and recovery
- Restoring, resetting, and refreshing using Windows tools
- Restoring using HP Recovery Manager and the HP Recovery partition
- Recovering using HP Recovery Manager
- Recovering using the HP Recovery partition (select products only)
- Recovering using HP Recovery media
- Changing the computer boot order
- Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only)
- Specifications
- Electrostatic Discharge
- Accessibility
- Index
Downloading HP PC Hardware Diagnostics Windows ....................................................................... 45
Downloading the latest HP PC Hardware Diagnostics Windows version ....................... 46
Downloading HP Hardware Diagnostics Windows by product name or number
(select products only) ..................................................................................................... 46
Installing HP PC Hardware Diagnostics Windows ............................................................................. 46
Using HP PC Hardware Diagnostics UEFI ............................................................................................................. 46
Starting HP PC Hardware Diagnostics UEFI ....................................................................................... 47
Downloading HP PC Hardware Diagnostics UEFI to a USB ash drive .............................................. 47
Downloading the latest HP PC Hardware Diagnostics UEFI version .............................. 47
Downloading HP PC Hardware Diagnostics UEFI by product name or number
(select products only) ..................................................................................................... 47
Using Remote HP PC Hardware Diagnostics UEFI settings (select products only) ............................................. 48
Downloading Remote HP PC Hardware Diagnostics UEFI ................................................................. 48
Downloading the latest Remote HP PC Hardware Diagnostics UEFI version ................. 48
Downloading Remote HP PC Hardware Diagnostics UEFI by product name or
number ............................................................................................................................ 48
Customizing Remote HP PC Hardware Diagnostics UEFI settings .................................................... 48
11 Backing up, restoring, and recovering .......................................................................................................... 50
Using Windows tools for backing up, restoring, and recovering your computer ............................................... 50
Creating backups ............................................................................................................................... 50
Restoring and recovering .................................................................................................................. 50
Creating HP Recovery media (select products only) ........................................................................................... 51
Using HP Recovery Manager to create recovery media .................................................................... 51
Before you begin ............................................................................................................. 51
Creating the recovery media ........................................................................................... 52
Using the HP Cloud Recovery Download Tool to create recovery media .......................................... 52
Restoring and recovery ........................................................................................................................................ 52
Restoring, resetting, and refreshing using Windows tools .............................................................. 52
Restoring using HP Recovery Manager and the HP Recovery partition ........................................... 52
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager ........................................................................................... 53
Recovering using the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ................................................ 53
Recovering using HP Recovery media ............................................................................................... 54
Changing the computer boot order ................................................................................................... 54
Removing the HP Recovery partition (select products only) ............................................................ 54
12 Specications ............................................................................................................................................ 55
Input power .......................................................................................................................................................... 55
Operating environment ....................................................................................................................................... 56
13 Electrostatic Discharge .............................................................................................................................. 57
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