Dell Studio XPS 7100 Manuale utente

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Dell™ Technology Guide

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and tells you how to avoid the problem.

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or death.

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Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows XP Professional edition respectively in

default view.

NOTE: Steps may vary depending on the version of operating system

installed on your computer.

represents Windows Vista Start button.

represents Windows XP Start button.

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August 2008 Rev. A01

Contents 3

Contents

1 Finding Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Start Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Microsoft Windows Help and Support . . . . . . . . . 24

Windows Vista®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Windows®XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Control Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Information About Installed Hardware . . . . . . . . . 26

Device Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Hardware Devices Installed on Your

Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Programs Installed on Your Computer. . . . . . . . . . 28

Wireless Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Dell Support Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Customer Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Warranty Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Dell Forums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

BIOS (System Setup Program) Settings . . . . . . . . . 31

2 Microsoft Windows Desktop . . . . . . . . . . 33

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Taskbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

4Contents

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Displaying the Taskbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Customizing the Taskbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Displaying Hidden Icons From the Notification

Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Adding Icons in the Notification Area . . . . . . . 35

Desktop Icons and Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Deleting an Icon From the Desktop . . . . . . . . . 36

Creating and Deleting Program Shortcuts

on the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Shortcut Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Changing the Desktop Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Windows Vista®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Windows®XP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Setting up a Screen Saver . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Windows Vista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Start Button (Menu) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Customizing the Start Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Accessing and Using the Control Panel . . . . . . 45

Customizing Your Computer Settings . . . . . . . . 45

Managing Your Computer Performance . . . . . . 45

3 Monitors and Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Cleaning Your Computer’s Display Screen . . . . . . . 47

Adjusting the Resolution of Your Display . . . . . . . . 48

Windows Vista®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Contents 5

Windows®XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Choosing the Best Display Settings . . . . . . . . 50

Setting the Display Resolution for External

LCD Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Setting the Display for Multiple Monitors . . . . . . . 51

Windows Vista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Using the Ambient Light Sensor in Bright or

Low-Light Environments: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Cables and Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

DisplayPort™ - Features and Benefits . . . . . . . 56

NVIDIA SLI and ATI Crossfire Technologies . . . . . . 56

4 Navigation Devices (Mouse, Keyboard,

Touch Pad) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Controlling the Speed of the Mouse Buttons. . . . 58

Controlling the Speed of the Scroll Wheel . . . . . 59

Cleaning a Non-Optical Mouse. . . . . . . . . . . 59

Cleaning an Optical Mouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Using a Bluetooth® -Enabled Wireless Mouse . . 60

Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Circular Scrolling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Single Finger Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Cleaning the Touch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Using a Touch Pointer (Track Stick or

Tablet PC Pen) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

6Contents

Turning the Touch Pointer On or Off From the

Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Turning the Touch Pointer On or Off From the

Taskbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Using a USB Pointing Device (Mouse) . . . . . . . . . 64

Troubleshooting a USB Pointing Device . . . . . . 64

Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Customizing Your Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Backlit Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Changing the Input Language of Your

Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Using the Numeric Keypad on a Laptop

Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

General Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

5 Printers—Settings and Drivers . . . . . . . 71

Accessing Printer Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Changing Printer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

For Windows Vista®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

For Windows®XP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Setting up Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Adding a Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Setting the Default Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Sharing Printers on a Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Installing a Printer Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

6 Drives and Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Freeing up Hard Drive Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Contents 7

Shadow Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Reducing Hard Drive Space Used by Shadow

Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Solid-State Drive (SSD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Installing Drivers for Media Drives . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Determining Whether a Device Driver is the

Source of a Device Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Replacing a Driver With a Previous Version of

the Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Using the Drivers and Utilities Media to Reinstall

a Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Manually Reinstalling a Driver . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Drive Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Optical Drive Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Hard Drive Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Working with RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

RAID Level 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

RAID Level 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

RAID Level 0+1 Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 86

RAID Level 5 Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled

Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Configuring RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

7 Shutting Down Your Computer . . . . . . . . 99

Windows Vista®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Windows®XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Shutdown States. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Microsoft® Windows Vista®. . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Windows®XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

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Ending a Program That is not Responding . . . . 101

Ending a Process That is not Responding . . . . 103

Docking and Undocking Your Laptop Computer. . . . 104

Undocking Your Computer While it is

Running— Hot Undocking . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Undocking Without Shutting Down . . . . . . . . 104

Shutting Down Your Computer When it Fails to

Shut Down Normally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Shutting Down a Stalled or "Frozen"

Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Shutting Down a Computer When it Stops Responding

and Displays a Solid Blue Screen . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Starting Your Computer in Safe Mode . . . . . . . . . 107

Restarting Your Computer After a Power Loss . . . . 108

8 Files and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Navigating to Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Selecting and Opening Files . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Selecting a Group of Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Selecting Several Random Files . . . . . . . . . 111

Opening and Saving a File . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Opening a Graphic Image (Picture or Art) . . . . 112

Finding Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Searching for a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Renaming Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Printing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Deleting Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Contents 9

Sharing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Windows Vista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Sharing Files With Password Protection. . . . . . 115

Restricting Access to a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Transferring Files and Settings to a New Computer . . 116

Transferring Files From a Computer Running

Windows XP to a Computer Running

Windows Vista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Transferring Files Between Computers Running

Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Backing up Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Windows Vista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Running Backup When the Settings Have

Been Preconfigured . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Running Backup With Hidden Drives. . . . . . . . 119

Restoring Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Windows Vista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

9 Managing Applications (Programs) . . . 121

Installing Applications on Your Computer . . . . . . . 121

Installing Applications From a CD or DVD With

Microsoft®Windows®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Installing (Downloading) Applications From the

Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Installing Applications From a Network . . . . . . 122

Windows Vista®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Windows®XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

10 Contents

Removing Applications From Your Computer . . . . . 123

Windows Vista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Ending an Application When it Does not

Respond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

10 Maintenance Tasks (Enhance

Performance and Ensure Security) . . . . 125

Performing Maintenance Tasks to Increase

Computer Speed and Ensure Security . . . . . . . . . 125

Cleaning Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Before You Start. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Cleaning the Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Cleaning Optical Drives and Optical Drive

Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Managing Your Computer Performance . . . . . . . 127

Windows Vista®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Windows®XP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Performance Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

System Setup Based Performance Tuning . . . . 129

Software Based Performance Tuning . . . . . . 129

NVIDIA Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

NVIDIA Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Cleaning Up Your Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Defragmenting Your Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Detecting and Repairing Disk Errors . . . . . . . . . 133

Scanning for Viruses and Spyware . . . . . . . . . . 133

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