Preventive Maintenance; First Time Use - NEC VERSA E6500 Series User Manual

Preventive Maintenance

The following information will help you to set up a preventive maintenance plan in order to
prevent notebook problems. Depending on what your notebook is being used for, adapt them
to your own needs.
These suggestions are classified according to the recommended frequency.

First Time Use

Back up your BIOS settings:
notebook works and minor changes to them can modify the way your notebook functions. To
back up the BIOS settings, take a piece of paper, enter the BIOS (Refer to Introducing
BIOS Setup section) and note the settings and their values.
Note
Do not forget to modify what is written on this piece of paper each time you modify the BIOS
settings.
Daily
Note
The suggestions below are only relevant to Microsoft
Scan for viruses:
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Internet Security
recommend you use the automatic scanning option and perform on-demand scanning. Refer to
the software documentation for more information.
Caution
Update the virus definition files at least once every month, or as soon as you hear about a new
virus.
Back up your data on a regular basis:
files from your notebook to media such as a floppy diskette, a CD or a removable hard disk.
Refer to the Windows
Weekly
Note
The suggestions below are only relevant to Microsoft
Scan for hard disk logical and physical errors:
known as the Error-checking tool (depending on the operating system). Refer to the Windows
online help for more information.
Clean up your hard drive
Defragment your hard drive:
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can use Microsoft Disk Defragmenter to perform this process. Refer to the Windows
help for more information.
these parameters saved in the CMOS memory define how your
your notebook is delivered with an antivirus software (Refer to Norton
2007 section) pre-installed on your hard drive. For better security we
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online help for more information.
by using the Disk Cleanup option in Windows
it will allow your notebook to run at peak performance. You
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operating systems.
you can use the Microsoft
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operating systems.
to do so, use Microsoft
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Backup tool to save your
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ScanDisk, also
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online
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