Re: First steps after the purchase of a laptop?

Hello
We bought a Satellite A500-GL for my 17yo son.

I could ask for advice on what needs to be done on the laptop it whips away before he spends hours playing with it!

I know there will be some user guides etc there to do this, but there not the patience to sit and wait while we wait until he does, and as it is sealed, we can't not look beforehand.

I know that Anti virus/Internet security protection will be a. Can you offer me anything else e.g. recovery disks or the laptop are provided?

Thank you very much

What you need to do is follow:
# Connect your laptop on AC power and after 10 minutes departure for laptop for the first time
# Complete the installation of the OS recovery
# When the operating system is loaded create restore DVD. For this I recommend you use DVD-R media
# When the recovery disk is created your son must click around a bit to see what kind of things is installed it is
# Connect the laptop to the internet and install the latest updates. Be careful with this. do not install the optional updates.
# your son can then remove some system software if it doesn't like it.

Please note: on the second partition is saved in the folder called HDDRecovery recovery image. These data are very important and you can do HARD installation operating system drive recovery (without using the recovery DVDs). How it can be done is described in this document - http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/HTD9102IR0000R01.htm

If this file will be removed or deleted, you won't be able to create recovery DVDs or use installation of HARD drive recovery.

If you have any other questions please let us know.

Tags: Toshiba

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