To configure the Status Panel You can specify the location and the contents of the Status Panel: battery status, keyboard status, and/or hard-drive status. • Open HP User Tools (click Start, HP User Tools). On the Settings tab, click OmniBook Status Panel Setup. To use the System Configuration Utility The System Configuration Utility provides settings for some basic configurations, such as port settings and password. You must reboot the computer to run the System Configuration Utility. You should print out these instructions before doing this procedure. 1. Close all open applications. Reset the computer by exiting Windows and pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL, or by pressing the reset button . 2.
At the message to enter System Configuration Utility , immediately press F2 to open the System Configuration Utility. The mouse does not work in this environment. 3. You will see the specifications for the hard drive, the ports, the CPU, and the memory allocation and availability. Press ALT to highlight the menu. Press ENTER to open the highlighted menu. The menu has categories for these settings: • System: date and time, boot devices and configurations, docking messages (on/off), passwords, PC identification text, cache enabling, status panel enabling, and status panel settings (position, contents). • Input/Output:
configuration of peripheral devices (serial and parallel ports, keyboard, display, audio, external mouse enabling). • Power: power management configuration. 4. The Defaults menu can restore the original default settings or the settings in effect prior to opening the System Configuration Utility. 5. To exit the System Configuration Utility, press ALT X. You can then choose to save new settings you have made, or not to save them. To run MS-DOS mode MS-DOS mode loads a custom MS-DOS boot configuration with real-mode drivers. It enables the mouse in DOS. 1. Click Start, Programs, OmniBook, MS-DOS Mode. 2. To return to Windows, type exit .
HP User Tools HP User Tools (click Start, then User Tools) gives you access to some of the OmniBook's configuration settings; that is, the way the OmniBook looks and 43