Chapter 7

Fn-esse

Hardware Setup

TSETUP

Toshiba Power Extensions

Toshiba Utilities

Several utilities are installed on your computer to help you reconfigure your system and to meet your individual needs. Toshiba also added a tab to the Microsoft Windows power management utility. Together, these features allow you to ascertain certain system details, set additional options, and change default options. The Toshiba utilities are:

Fn-esse

Fn-esse provides quick ways to open programs, documents, and folders from within any Windows program without using the Start menu. This section describes how to use the Fn-esse program to quickly access your programs and files.

With Fn-esse, you can assign Fn key combination to perform the following tasks:

Starting Fn-esse

  1. Click Start, point to Programs, Toshiba Utilities, then click Fn-esse.
    The Fn-esse icon appears on the taskbar.
  2. Click the Fn-esse icon.
    The Fn-esse window appears, displaying the Fn-esse keyboard.

 

The Fn-esse window

The keys on the Fn-esse keyboard are color-coded as follows:

Assigning a key to a program or document

There are three ways to assign a key to open a program or document:

The method most often used is drag-and-drop.

Using drag-and-drop

To assign a key to a program or document:

  1. Open both Fn-esse and Windows Explorer.
  2. Resize and move the Explorer window so that you can see both the Fn-esse keyboard and Explorer at the same time.
  3. In the Explorer window, highlight the program or document file you wish to assign to a key.
  4. Click and hold the primary AccuPoint button as you drag the highlighted item from Explorer to the key on the Fn-esse keyboard to which you wish to assign it.
  5. Release the primary AccuPoint button.
    Fn-esse displays the Add/Edit Command dialog box completely filled in to reflect the selected program or document.
  6. Click OK to close the Add/Edit Command dialog box with your key assignment in place.
    The program or document is now associated with the key you just selected. To open the program or document, press Fn plus the appropriate key from within any Windows program.
Using the Fn-esse Browser dialog box

To assign a key to open a program or document:

  1. Start Fn-esse.
  2. Click the desired key in the Fn-esse keyboard with the secondary AccuPoint button.
    Fn-esse displays the Assignment Type dialog box.
  3. Click Direct.
    Fn-esse displays the Add/Edit Command dialog box.
  4. Enter the Description, Command Line and Working Directory for the new Fn-esse key assignment, or click the Browse button to specify this information.
  5. Click OK.
Using the Application Explorer popup list

To assign a key to open a program or document from a popup list:

  1. Start Fn-esse.
  2. Click the desired key in the Fn-esse keyboard using the secondary AccuPoint button.
    Fn-esse displays the Assignment Type dialog box.
  3. Click Popup.
    Fn-esse displays the Application Explorer dialog box.
  4. Select the desired folder.
    The left side of the Application Explorer window displays the folders in the Programs menu. The right side lists the programs and documents in the folder. These are the items that will appear in the popup list. To create a popup list with items from various folders, or to pick only a few items from a folder, create a new folder containing only the desired programs and documents. If you are unsure how to do this, refer to your Windows 98 documentation.
  5. Click OK.
    The folder is now associated with the key you just selected. To open a popup list showing the items in that folder, press Fn plus the appropriate key from within any Windows program.

Viewing existing key assignments

  1. Start Fn-esse.
  2. Click the Assignments menu button.
    Fn-esse displays the Function Key Assignments dialog box.

    HINT: The Function Key Assignments box lists all the key assignments and the program or document to which each key is assigned
  1. To view the items in a popup list, click the Expand popup lists check box.
  2. Click OK.

Changing or removing existing key assignments

  1. Start Fn-esse.
  2. In the Fn-esse keyboard, click the key you want to change using the secondary AccuPoint button.
    Fn-esse displays the Assignment Type dialog box.
  3. Complete one of the following steps:
    • To change the key assignment, click Direct or Popup and continue as if you were creating a new assignment.
    • To remove the key assignment, click Clear.

Hardware Setup

Hardware Setup lets you view general system settings and specify the pointing device, display, CPU cache, boot priority, keyboard, USB, PC card, password, device configuration and parallel/printer for your computer. To set the IRQ, I/O Address and DMA channel for communication ports use the Windows Device Manager.

Accessing Hardware Setup

To run Hardware Setup, click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and double-click Toshiba Hardware Setup.

Hardware Setup window

 

Hardware Setup window

The Hardware Setup window contains the following tabs:

TSETUP

TSETUP is a MS-DOS based program that provides similar functions as Hardware Setup and Toshiba Power Extensions. HDD Mode changes cannot be made in Hardware Setup. The System Setup screen appears when you execute the TSETUP.EXE file. The TSETUP.EXE file is located in the Windows subdirectory on your hard drive.

To access TSETUP during system boot:

  1. Turn off the computer.
  2. Hold down the ESC key and turn on the computer.
  3. When you receive the following message: "Check system. Then press [F1] key," press F1.
    TSETUP displays the System Setup screen.

To access TSETUP from Windows:

  1. Click the Start menu button, then click Shut Down.
    Windows displays the Shut Down Windows dialog box.
  2. Select Restart the computer in MS-DOS mode? and click Yes.
  3. After the computer reboots in MS-DOS, type TSETUP and press Enter.
    TSETUP displays the System Setup screen.

To change (or view) the options available at any particular setting, use the arrow keys to move to the setting and press the space bar to scroll through the options. Once you've left DOS, any changes you've made to TSETUP become default settings when you reboot your computer.

Toshiba Power Extensions

Toshiba Power Extensions provide power-saving options to let you select the level of power saving and performance that best fits your computing needs.

Accessing Toshiba Power Extensions

To run the Toshiba Power Extensions utility:

  1. Click the Start button, point to Settings, and click Control Panel.
  2. Double-click the Power Properties Management icon, then click the Toshiba Power Extensions tab.

Toshiba Power Extensions window

The Windows 98 Toshiba Power Extensions provide several power-management options not available through the other tabs.

 

Toshiba Power Extensions

Using the Toshiba Power Extensions tab you can: