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TY2009 AARP Dell Vostro 1520 Laptop Tune-up
AARP Tax-Aide National Technology Committee 1/24/2010 Page 1 of 6
In preparation for the Tax Year 2009 filing season in 2010, this procedure
verifies software settings and applies maintenance and upgrades to the
Windows and other software of the Dell Vostro 1520 laptop computers that
were purchased by the AARP Foundation in early 2010 for use by AARP Tax-
Aide volunteers.
Some of these steps verify settings that may have already been established.
Some of the steps are optional, and are so marked. In tailoring this
procedure for their state, a TCS may omit some or all of the optional
material. If a step is not marked optional it should be performed as part of
this tune-up.
Several of the steps below assume that the target computer is connected to
the Internet via a broadband connection. If such a connection is not
continuously available to you, or if you have several computers to tune up,
you may prefer to download some of the large updates one time onto a
flash drive or CD and run them many times from there, rather than
download them onto each computer that needs to be updated. When this
option is available it will be described below as an alternative to the online
update step. Some of these downloads may be included in your state-level
AARP Tax-Aide Resource CD.
1. The Numeric Lock shift may be turned on. The light above the keyboard that looks
like an arrow with a 9 inside it should not be lit. If it is, turn it off by pressing Fn +
NumLk. The NumLk key is in the first row near the right end.
2. Unplug any Ethernet cables from the computer and turn off the Wide Area Network
wireless adapter radio. The WLAN switch is on the left side of the case on the end
away from the hinges.
3. Log in to Windows using the Administrator login from your AARP Tax-Aide
Password letter.
4. Cancel any AVG scan that may be running.
5. Use the separate instructions provided with the AARP Tax-Aide Dell 1520 Image
DVD dated Jan 10, 2010, to re-write the software image on the hard disk drive.
6. Log in to Windows using the Administrator login from your AARP Tax-Aide
Password letter.
7. Cancel any AVG scan that may be running.