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Recommended tools, Turning off your computer, Recommended tools turning off your computer – Dell Alienware M17x (Mid 2009) User Manual

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CHAPTER 1: BEFORE YOU BEGIN

Turning Off Your Computer

CAUTION: To avoid losing data, save and close all open files and exit all

open programs before you turn off your computer.

Save and close all open files and exit all open programs.

1.

In Microsoft

2.

®

Windows Vista

®

, click

Start (Windows Vista

®

logo), click the

arrow , and then click

Shut Down.

The computer turns off after the operating system shutdown process

finishes.

Ensure that the computer and any attached devices are turned off. If your

3.

computer and attached devices did not automatically turn off when you

shut down your operating system, press and hold the power button for at

least 8 to 10 seconds until the computer turns off.

Recommended Tools

The procedures in this document may require the following tools:

Small flat-blade screwdriver

Phillips screwdriver

Processor extraction tool

BIOS upgrade CD