Computer Installation Instructions
Welcome to Sumner College! To set yourself up for the best computing experience throughout your time at Sumner College, please follow the steps below to set up the laptop that Sumner College has issued to you. This laptop will be used for coursework, quizzes, testing, and assignments. Jim Mohan jmohan@sumnercollege.edu and Abby Sladek asladek@sumnercollege.edu
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Note: Please do not install the office program that is on the computer. It will be free for a month, and then they will ask you to pay $100 for a subscription, and it can cause issues setting up the Installation of the Sumner licensed version .
Laptop set up steps Please plug your laptop in to charge while performing the following steps.
• Once your laptop has been turned on and plugged in, it will begin to ask you some questions and set up your laptop, simply follow the prompts. • Connect to a Wi ‐ Fi network, if you are on campus you can connect to our Wi ‐ Fi: o Name: SumnerCollege o Password: Education1 • You will be prompted to sign in to your Microsoft account if you have one, and asked to create one if you don’t already have one. o You will need a username and password, as well as a few security questions and their answers. o Be sure to write down your passwords and security answers in case you forget! • Microsoft will continue to ask questions for laptop and account set ‐ up. Hang in there! It is important to use a Microsoft account. It will give you access to One Drive (save a copy of your data of cloud server) and more importantly If you hard drive gets encrypted the encryption Keys will be saved to your Microsoft Account and you can recover them and decrypt you hard drive. Some accounts seem to get encrypted automatically so if asked to save encryption to Microsoft please choose yes.
One more note on Microsoft accounts: If a friend helps setup your computer and they use their Microsoft account to login and get you setup, you will need the that individual ’ s Microsoft account info to get to your one drive files and encryption keys.
It is best practice is to get your own Microsoft account so you are in control of it
Install Lenovo Updates
• Click on the windows icon, you will see tiles on screen. Click on the Blue tile with a white L in it. “Lenovo Vantage” double click on it. • The app will start and will update itself, if asked please allow to make changes to you computer. It takes about 5-10 minutes to complete. • You will see a purple tile that with a link Check for System updates click on it. • If your browser window is smaller o Go to full screen OR o Once it completes a screen comes up with 3 bars in the top right corner (they may have a red 1 on them.) Click on the three bars icon o A new window opens and you should see an option for System Updates Click on this link. • In the system update windows there is a big blue button Check for updates ( this may take a while to appear) • The next screen will have a gold button Install all updates. Double click on the icon. You may be told that the computer will need top restarted when updates are done. • Restart if asked to. • Once done repeat these steps until note screens says No updates Available
Windows & Microsoft updates Ensure your laptop is charging and 50% charged is ideal.
• Install all of the windows Updates ; there will be several of them. (Search Updates and security in your search bar of the bottom task bar on the screen, then click check for updates) • Follow the on ‐scre en instructions on when to reboot and continue to update until the system tells you are completely updated. • After the system is completely up to date, please click on the link under the message to begin Microsoft updates. • Please do the above process until there are no more updates these until there are no more updates and then click on the windows update once more to ensure all updates have been completed. You may need to restart your laptop again
Download Google Chrome • From your browser (Microsoft Edge), search “Google Chro me”, Download and install Google Chrome from google.com, following their steps as shown on their website. • You will then need to go to your downloads and run the chrome installer. You should then see a Chrome icon on your desktop. • With Chrome open, right click (or two finger tap on trackpad) on the Chrome icon on the taskbar at the bottom of your screen, then click on “Pin to task bar” do the same thing to the Microsoft edge icon but instead click “Unpin to taskbar”. Make chrome your default browser • Click on the search bar with the magnifying glass and search “default programs”, then select “Defaults apps”. • Under Default apps scroll to the bottom and find “Choose default apps by file type ” in blue font. Scroll through the list to find all apps that use Microsoft edge and change to google chrome when possible. When changing to chrome, you may be prompted to stay with edge as it is the recommended browser, choose switch anyway. Move to the Next item and repeat. • .HTTP and .HTTPS are very critical and need to be changed to google Chrome. • There are 6 extensions that you can skip when going through the list: .mht .mhtml .pdf .webp .FTP .xml • Chrome is now set as the default.
Download and install Acrobat Reader (from adobe.com)
• Click on: https://get.adobe.com/reader/?promoid=TTGWL47M • When the page opens, uncheck all of the Optional Offers. • Click on the download Acrobat Reader button under Adobe Acrobat Reader DC to begin download .
Uninstall all McAfee programs
• Go to settings> apps> installed apps • Scroll down to McAfee and uninstall all McAfee apps.
Activate your Licensed Academic version of Office 365 account • You will be receiving an email with detailed instruction for downloading and installing Office 365 with an academic license.
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Contact info Please let me know if you have, any problems please contact:
• Abby Sladek at asladek@sumnercollege.edu • Jim Mohan at jmohan@sumnercollege.edu
Housekeeping • Microsoft Releases updates on the Second Tuesday of the month. • Please have you computer plugged into wall power
o This is important, as updates will not be installed if running on battery power. o By doing the updates manually (Windows icon > settings> windows update) you will not get an update starting while you are in class or taking a test, zoom can act badly if it does not have new update
Updated 12.19.23
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