Redetect identifies installed hardware, which is useful if you??™ve added new items since
your last installation. This is roughly equivalent to the plug-and-play functionality
most Windows users enjoy.
Diagnostics is an option used when you are experiencing some kind of system issues,
such as failed or improperly configured hardware. A series of applications runs, and
the results of the detection and diagnosis are displayed. This screen can be very intimidating
and difficult to interpret if you are not familiar with the Linux startup process.
The Advanced Menu lets you boot up without any hardware detection, which could
be useful if the detection process causes a peripheral to hang.
Select Freespire (or Linspire as the case may be), and the operating system finishes
loading.
The Settings window (see Figure 15-5) provides a button for setting the system time and a settings
dialog that enables you to set or change the admin account password. Set the desktop (display)
resolution that you prefer and that your hardware supports, and invoke the Freespire User Manager,
with which you can create new users, assign them capabilities, and delete them as needed. You also
get one opportunity to rename your PC. You set the computer name and administrator password
during startup, so there is not likely to be a reason to change them here, but you can if you like.
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