User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- Getting started
- Components
- Network connections
- Navigating the screen
- Using touchpad and touch screen gestures
- Tap
- Two-finger pinch zoom
- Two-finger slide (touchpad and precision touchpad)
- Two-finger tap (touchpad and precision touchpad)
- Three-finger tap (touchpad and precision touchpad)
- Four-finger tap (touchpad and precision touchpad)
- Three-finger swipe (touchpad and precision touchpad)
- Four-finger swipe (precision touchpad)
- One-finger slide (touch screen)
- Using an optional keyboard or mouse
- Using an on-screen keyboard
- Using touchpad and touch screen gestures
- Entertainment features
- Managing power
- Security
- Maintenance
- Backing up, restoring, and recovering
- Computer Setup (BIOS)
- Using HP PC Hardware Diagnostics UEFI
- Specifications
- Electrostatic discharge
- Accessibility
- Index
5 Entertainment features
Use your HP computer for business or pleasure to meet with others via the camera, mix audio and video, or
connect external devices like a projector, monitor, TV, or speakers.
See Components on page 3 to locate the audio, video and camera features on your computer.
Using a camera
Your computer has one camera that enables you to connect with others for work or play. Your camera allows
you to video chat, record video, and record still images.
To determine which camera is on your product, see Components on page 3. To use your camera, type camera
in the taskbar search box, and then select Camera from the list of applications. Some cameras also feature
HD
(high-denition) capability, apps for gaming, or facial recognition software like Windows Hello. See
Security on page 31 for details about using Windows Hello.
You can enhance your computer privacy by covering the lens with the camera privacy cover. By default, the
camer
a lens is uncovered, but you can slide the camera privacy cover to block the camera's view. To use the
camera, slide the camera privacy cover in the opposite direction to reveal the lens.
Using audio
You can download and listen to music, stream audio content (including radio) from the web, record audio, or
mix audio and video t
o create multimedia. You can also play music CDs on an attached external optical drive.
To enhance your listening enjoyment, attach headphones or speakers.
Using sound settings
Use sound settings to adjust system volume, change system sounds, or manage audio devices.
Viewing or changing sound settings
Use these instructions to view or change sound settings.
▲ Type
control panel in the taskbar search box, select Control Panel, select Hardware and Sound,
and then select
Sound.
Using the control panel to view and control audio settings
You can view or change sound settings using the audio control panel.
Your computer might include an enhanced sound system by Bang & Olufsen, DTS, Beats audio, or another
pr
ovider. As a result, your computer might include advanced audio features that can be controlled through an
audio control panel specic to your audio system.
Use the audio control panel to view and control audio settings.
▲ Type control panel in the taskbar search box, select Control Panel, select Hardware and Sound,
and then select the audio control panel specic
to your system.
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