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Out of the Box Laptop Tips

Follow these steps when you take your new machine out of the box.

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You pull your brand-new notebook out of its packaging and plug it in for the first time. Then you go through the Windows setup, and you're all done, right? Not really. Your laptop is not really ready--or truly yours--until you do some tweaking. Here are ten things you should do with your new system.

First Step: Install/Activate Antivirus Software >>

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