Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Yoga 900 Setup

Yoga 900 Setup

Here are some tips on setting up your Yoga 900:
  • Clean Install Windows 10 - This is if you want to start fresh and remove any Lenovo bloatware installed. I suggest saving an image of your original drive in case you ever need to go back to the original installation or use the original recovery.
  • Disable Adaptive Brightness - This feature causes flickering by dynamically lowering the brightness on your screen. The tradeoff is that your battery life will be longer, but I really dislike it.
  • Use function keys by default - I prefer for the F-keys to work as F1, F2, etc instead of being the volume/brightness keys by default. This setting has to be changed in the bios. When the computer is shutdown use the Novo button (small inset button next to the power button) to turn on the computer and then select the BIOS. Once inside disable hotkey mode (described in the link)
  • Three Finger Middle Click/Disable Cortana on Middle Click - I use this in Chrome to open a link in a new tab regularly (Link coming...).
  • Get a USB-C to video out adapter - If you plan on using your laptop with an external display then you'll want to buy a USB-C to HDMI/VGA/Displayport/DVI adapter.

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