Contents
About this book ............................... v
Chapter 1. Overview of your software .................. 1
Preinstalled software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Software on the Software Selections CD .................. 2
Documentation on the Software Selections CD .............. 4
Other software CDs ............................. 4
Product Recovery CDs ............................ 5
Chapter 2. Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Starting your computer for the first time .................. 7
What you need before you start ..................... 7
Running the setup program ....................... 7
Using Access IBM .............................. 9
Registering your IBM computer ...................... 10
Viewing documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Shutting down your computer ...................... 11
Chapter 3. Installing software from the Software Selections CD ... 13
Features of the Software Selections CD .................. 13
Starting the Software Selections CD ................... 14
Using the Software Selections program .................. 14
Chapter 4. Diagnostic and support software .............. 15
Norton AntiVirus for IBM ......................... 15
ConfigSafe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
IBM Enhanced Diagnostics ........................ 18
Running IBM Enhanced Diagnostics from the Product Recovery CD 18
Creating an IBM Enhanced Diagnostics diskette ........... 19
Running the IBM Enhanced Diagnostics diskette ........... 19
Chapter 5. Recovering your operating system and preinstalled
software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Recovering Windows 98 .......................... 21
Recovering or installing Windows 95 ................... 23
Recovering Windows 98 or Windows 95 device drivers ......... 24
Recovering Windows NT Workstation .................. 25
Recovering Windows NT Workstation device drivers .......... 27
Recovering Windows 2000 Professional ................. 28
Recovering Windows 2000 Professional device drivers ......... 29
Changing the primary startup sequence ................. 30
Installing other operating systems .................... 31
Appendix A. Viewing the license agreement ............. 33
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