Develop Good Computing Habits - Toshiba L640-BT2N13 User Manual

A blank screen appears while watching a DVD-ROM or
BD-ROM movie or title.
Change the setting for when to turn off the display using the
following steps:
1 Click Start, Control Panel, System and Security, and then
Power Options.
2 Click Choose when to turn off the display in the left pane.
3 To turn off the display, select Never in the drop-down lists.
4 Click Save changes.
The screen saver runs while you are watching a movie or title.
If the screen saver is enabled, it runs on top of any movie or title
you are watching. To disable the screen saver:
1 Right-click on the desktop and click Personalize in the menu.
2 Click Screen Saver in the lower-right corner of the window.
3 Select None from the Screen saver drop-down list.
4 Click OK.

Develop good computing habits

Save your work frequently.
You can never predict when your computer will lock, forcing you to
close a program and lose unsaved changes. Many software
programs build in an automatic backup, but you should not rely
solely on this feature. Save your work! See
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On a regular basis, back up the information stored on your
internal storage drive.
Use Windows
disc, or external hard disk. Here are some ways you can do this:
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Use the Windows
entire computer to an optical disc, or external hard disk.
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Copy files to a rewritable external storage device.
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Connect your computer to the office network and copy files to
your network partition.
Some people use a combination of these methods, backing up all
files to tape weekly and copying critical files to external media on a
daily basis.
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