Develop Good Computing Habits - Toshiba L300-EZ1004X User Manual

2 Select the Settings tab.
3 Select the Advanced Flat Panel tab.
4 Click Disable Display Stretch Feature.
5 Click OK.
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 Click Start, Control Panel.
The Control Panel window appears.
2 Click Appearance and Themes, and double-click the Display
icon.
The Display Properties dialog box appears.
3 Click the Screen Saver tab.
In the Screen Saver list, the current screen saver is highlighted.
4 Click the down arrow at the right of the current screen saver
name.
A list of screen savers displays.
5 Click and hold the up arrow by the list or move the slide to the top.
6 Click None.
7 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
hard disk.
Here are some ways you can do this:
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Copy files to an external storage device.
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Connect an optical drive to the system and use specialized
software to copy everything on the hard disk to an
optical disc.
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