- [Narrator] To start this lesson,
let's do a quick overview of a typical laptop.
And we'll start with the basic components of this system.
Here, we see the display, which is blank right now,
will boot up the laptop in a little bit.
Above that we have a webcam and little tiny microphones.
Underneath here, we have the speakers for the laptop,
and here is the power button.
Underneath that we have the keyboard.
And one thing I'd like to point out here
is the F1 through F12 keys.
These are the function keys,
but they have secondary functions on this laptop.
For example, this is the F2 key right here.
And, normally that would get you into, say the BIOS,
and it might do other things within your operating system
but it has a secondary function.
And to activate that secondary function we'd press
this fn key the function key.
So we'd press this and F2 at the same time.
That key's secondary function
is to reduce the brightness of the display.
Another example, the F12 key over here
has a secondary function
of toggling the wireless connection.
So it'll enable or disable the wireless.
So if you're ever troubleshooting wireless
you can check that, press the function key
and press that wireless key
and see if the wireless turns on in your notification area
or elsewhere in your operating system.
Beneath that, we have the touch pad,
which you can use to single tap,
double tap, swipe, or click.
And it also comes with buttons
on the bottom left and right to emulate a mouse's buttons.
And that's the main components of this particular laptop.
Let's go ahead and take a look at the ports
that we have on this system.
So we'll close this and we'll take a look here.
And so to start, we'll start on the left side.
Here, we have the power connection,
which is for our AC adapter,
which we'll plug in in a minute.
Here, We have an RJ45 port,
and that's for the wired ethernet connection,
which will also plug and connect to
the wired local area network.
And here we have two USB ports.
These are USB version three or higher,
and we know that because they are blue.
And then here we have exhaust vents.
Very important to keep these clear
and make sure you're getting the heat out of the laptop.
And turn it around here to the right side.
Here, we have an audio port
that's an one-eighth inch TRS jack
which you can use with your headphones or headset.
Here we have a USB port.
This is black, so it's only 2.0.
And then here we have an HDMI port for video,
so we can connect an external monitor,
and get a second display going with this laptop.
Over here, we have a lock port,
and if you're gonna use a cable lock,
with the laptop to secure it,
and keep it kind of stationary,
so it doesn't walk away, so to speak.
On the front of the laptop, we have a couple lights,
and these may be a little difficult to make out,
but on the left, we have the charging light and power light.
And on the right here, we have the Wi-Fi light,
tells you if Wi-Fi is working.
On the back, this has a battery,
and it's secured by two screws.
And then we have lots of other screws
that keep the bottom plate in place.
And some other vents for releasing heat from the laptop.
We'll be taking apart this laptop
as we go through the lessons
and showing how to upgrade the system
and troubleshoot some of the parts that are within here.
And so, for example, this is actually a much older laptop.
It's probably five or six years old right now,
but I still use it.
And this particular one runs Windows 10 Professional
and it runs it fairly well because I upgraded it.
I upgraded the hard drive to a faster solid state drive.
And then I increased the RAM and put in faster RAM.
I actually have another one of these systems,
and it's the same laptop basically, but it runs Fedora.
And so this particular system, if we look here,
this is a Toshiba Satellite E45-B4100.
So if I ever need parts,
or if I need to troubleshoot this system,
or look at the documentation,
I know the exact model number for this particular brand.
Let's go ahead and boot up this system.
And the first thing I wanna do is plug in the power,
and I've already plugged in the other side there,
and we'll plug in the wired ethernet patch cable.
And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna press the power button.
But before I do that, I wanna let you know what I'm doing.
First, I'm gonna boot into the BIOS of this system,
so I can show you a typical BIOS on a laptop.
And to do that on this system, we press the F2 key.
So you just need the F2 key for this.
Other systems, it might be F1, or it could be delete,
or perhaps another key stroke.
Depends on the manufacturer and the BIOS that's being used.
So I'm gonna press the power button
and immediately press the F2 key
to attempt to get into the BIOS.
And repeatedly press that F2 key.
And we're in.
And you can see we're in the Toshiba setup utility.
They actually don't make these laptops anymore,
but laptops like these that are older,
may be very beneficial to you for the learning process.
You can find inexpensive laptops
within online auction websites,
on the classifieds, and so on.
And perhaps they might work fine as-is,
or you may wanna upgrade them.
So it's an inexpensive way to really try
and educate yourself with the hardware
and with some software as well.
And you can see here that this has
an Intel Core i5-5200 CPU,
which is a 2.2 gigahertz CPU.
I've increased the RAM to 16 gigabytes.
And you can see it says 16,384 megabytes,
that is 16 gigabytes.
And I've changed the hard drive
to a Samsung SSD, a solid state drive.
And I'll show that process in another video.
And we have lots of options here,
we can modify security, power management,
advanced options, and so on, and so on,
change the time and date here, if we need to,
all that is done in the BIOS.
And the BIOS is the underlying system underneath of Windows,
or whatever other operating system you're running,
like Linux.
So it's important that this is configured properly
in order for your operating system to work correctly.
I'm not gonna make any changes here,
I just wanted to show it,
but we'll be showing this more in future videos.
So for now,
I'm just gonna press the escape key to close out,
and it tells you what to do here
in the legend at the bottom right.
If you need help, press F1, that's the universal help key.
If you want the defaults for the system, press F9.
To save any changes you make and exit, press F10.
Or to just get out without saving anything,
just press escape.
And I'm gonna do that now.
And when we do so we'll say yes to exit, discarding changes,
even though I didn't make any changes, press enter,
and it should boot into Windows.
Alright, and here is the Windows system.
At this point, I'm gonna log in.
I'm just gonna press the enter key and type in my password.
And even for an older laptop,
it booted into Windows pretty quickly.
It took longer probably to log in
than it did to boot up the system.
If your profile is large,
it could take a long time to log in,
regardless of what the system is.
But you'll notice that this is an older system,
but it actually booted Windows pretty quick.
Alright, so we'll get rid of these messages.
And at this point we are in Windows 10 Professional,
and now I'm going to go and share the screen off,
so that we can see it a little bit easier,
and show a couple things within Windows,
and a couple of things that you want to look for
in any operating system that you're working in.
So I've shared my Windows 10 system
so that you can see the screen,
and you can see everything a little bit bigger here.
And I always recommend
that you get to know the operating system,
navigate through the system
and get to know all of its parts,
especially these four components.
First, files.
Know how to get to the files and how to open them.
Second, settings.
Know how to get to your settings
and how to configure your system.
Third, a web browser.
Make sure that you know how to use at least one web browser,
the built-in one, within the system.
And fourth, how to use the command line.
Whatever that command line program is
for your operating system.
So, let's show these four on this Windows 10 system
as an example.
And we'll start with files.
In Windows, we use File Explorer,
and you can see there's an icon here for it.
That's this little folder,
but if you don't know where something is,
you can go through the start menu and try to search for it,
or, and this might be your best bet,
because you're gonna be working
in a lot of operating systems
and a lot of different applications,
get to know how to use the search tool.
So, here's the search tool.
If we click on that and we type File Explorer,
it'll bring up that File Explorer app
and we can just click on it to bring it up,
and then we can work with our files and folders.
So that's the first thing,
make sure you can get to the files on your system.
The second thing is to make sure
you can get to the settings.
In Windows 10, there's two places to do your configurations.
There's settings, and there's the control panel.
And let's start with settings.
If we go to the search once again,
and just type settings, there we go.
And here's our settings app.
If I click on that, it brings up all the various settings
on Windows 10, and we're gonna go through settings
and all of these categories
in more depth in a later video.
We'll also show other ways to open the settings app.
But the second option in Windows 10 is the control panel.
And again, a variety of ways to open that,
but if we go to the search once again,
and just type control panel, you'll see that app.
And open that up, and you'll see all the various icons here,
and different things that you can do in the control panel.
Now you may say,
why have two different sets of configuration settings?
Well, the control panel is the older location,
and settings is the newer location.
And Windows has been slowly moving
and gravitating from the control panel over to settings.
But for now, you're probably gonna need to
know both when you're working in a system.
Okay, and the fourth option is the command line.
Now in Windows 10, we have three options.
You have the command prompt and the PowerShell in Windows,
and then you can access those
with another program called Terminal.
And so you wanna be able to find these.
Now again, variety of ways to search for these tools,
but the best way is to just use the search utility.
So if we click on that, we can type in, Command Prompt,
and you'll see the Command Prompt app,
or you can type in PowerShell,
and you'll see the PowerShell app.
And the third option is to run the Terminal.
Inside Terminal, you can run PowerShell or Command Prompt,
and a variety of other things as well.
We'll talk about all of that more later,
but for now, let's just open PowerShell,
because I think that's what you're gonna want to use
the most in the field.
So we'll press enter for PowerShell,
and you can see that brings up a command line for us,
and we can do whatever it is we need to do here.
Whether it's connect to websites externally,
ping them to see if they exist,
and see if we have a network connection,
or run the Dir command, or whatever else we need to do.
And again, we'll spend a lot of time
in the command line through the videos in this course,
but I just wanna make sure that you know how
to open all of these various apps in Windows,
or in any other operating system you're working in.