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Getting started with your laptop

A new (work) laptop? In fifteen minutes you can get the essentials set up properly: logging in quickly and safely, connecting your workstation, getting your screens to work the way you want, and putting your accounts in order. We already set up a lot of this for you when we deliver the laptop — but this way you know how it works yourself too.

Did you know?

Logging in with your fingerprint or face is not only faster, but also safer: your password can't be watched and copied, and biometric data never leaves your laptop.

Set up properly in five steps

  1. Set up Windows Hello (fingerprint or face)

    Go to Settings › Accounts › Sign-in options. Choose Facial recognition or Fingerprint recognition and follow the steps; also set a PIN as a backup. From now on you log in with a glance or a fingerprint — and locking with Windows + L becomes even more effortless.

  2. Connect your workstation via USB-C

    With a USB-C dock, one cable handles everything: monitor(s), keyboard, mouse, network and power. Set the laptop down, plug in the cable, done. Laptop not charging? Check that you're using the USB-C port with the power symbol — not every port supplies power.

  3. Set up your monitors correctly

    Press Windows + P to choose between duplicate and extend. Right-click the desktop › Display settings to drag your screens into the right order, choose your main display and adjust the scale if text is too small or too large.

  4. Add an extra email account in Outlook

    In Outlook, go to File › Add Account (or in new Outlook: gear icon › Accounts › Add Account), enter the email address and log in. Handy for a shared mailbox or a second business address — everything in one overview.

  5. Sign in to your browser profile (Chrome or Edge)

    Click the profile icon in the top-right of Chrome or Edge and sign in with your business account. Your favourites, settings and extensions then travel with you to every computer. On workstations we deliver, this is generally already set up for you. Tip: keep your work and personal profile separate — and store passwords in your password manager, not in the browser.

Test yourself

Question 1 · self-test

You connect a second screen, but it stays black or just mirrors. What's the fastest fix?

Question 2 · self-test

Where's the best place to store work files?

Question 3 · food for thought

If your laptop broke down today: how much work would you actually lose?

Question 4 · self-test

Is logging in with your fingerprint safer than with a password?

Question 5 · self-test

Your laptop is getting slow and the fan is roaring. What's the best first step?

Question 6 · food for thought

Is your workstation set up ergonomically — screen at eye level — or have you been looking down for months?

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