Windows 8 Absolute Beginner’s Guide

17. Setting Up Hardware the Easy Way

In This Chapter

• Setting Up Your Display

• Setting Up Your Mouse

• Setting Up Your Keyboard

• Setting Up Sound

• Setting Up Power

Although hardware setup might not seem like a beginner topic, you’ll find success in this chapter. Windows 8 makes it easy to tweak some of the most important settings of the hardware connected to your computer. Setting up some aspects of your hardware might require help from someone with more experience in Windows 8, or you might acquire another book from Que covering more advanced topics, but the tasks covered in this chapter are doable. In this chapter, you learn about setting up your display, mouse, keyboard, sound, and power.

Setting Up Your Display

The computer component ...