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Traveling with or shipping your computer ........................................................................................... 53
9 Securing your computer and information .................................................................................................. 55
Using passwords ................................................................................................................................ 55
Using Internet security software ......................................................................................................... 57
Installing software updates ................................................................................................................. 57
Securing your wireless network .......................................................................................................... 58
Backing up your software applications and information ..................................................................... 58
10 Using Setup Utility (BIOS) and System Diagnostics ............................................................................... 59
Starting Setup Utility (BIOS) ............................................................................................................... 59
Updating the BIOS ............................................................................................................................. 59
Using System Diagnostics .................................................................................................................. 61
11 Backing up, restoring, and recovering ..................................................................................................... 62
Creating recovery media and backups ............................................................................................... 62
Restore and recovery ......................................................................................................................... 62
12 Specifications .............................................................................................................................................. 67
Input power ......................................................................................................................................... 67
Operating environment ....................................................................................................................... 67
13 Electrostatic Discharge .............................................................................................................................. 68
Index ................................................................................................................................................................... 69
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Setting Windows passwords .............................................................................................. 56
Setting Setup Utility (BIOS) passwords ............................................................................. 56
Using antivirus software ..................................................................................................... 57
Using firewall software ....................................................................................................... 57
Installing Windows updates ............................................................................................... 57
Installing HP and third-party software updates .................................................................. 58
Determining the BIOS version ........................................................................................... 59
Downloading a BIOS update ............................................................................................. 60
Using Windows Refresh for quick and easy recovery ....................................................... 64
Remove everything and reinstall Windows ........................................................................ 64
Recovering using HP Recovery Manager .......................................................................... 65
What you need to know ..................................................................................... 65
Using the HP Recovery partition to recover (select models only) ..................... 65
Changing the boot order ................................................................................... 66
Removing the HP Recovery partition ................................................................................. 66