Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 Light User manual

User Guide
IdeaPad Slim 5 Light (14″, 8)

Read this first
Before using this documentation and the roduct it su orts, ensure that you read and understand the
following:
• Generic Safety and Compliance Notices
• Safety and Warranty Guide
• Setup Guide
First Edition (February 2023)
© Copyright Lenovo 2023.
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Contents
About this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Chapter . Meet your computer . . . . .
Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Features and s ecifications . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Statement on USB transfer rate . . . . . . . . 7
O erating environment . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Avoid constant body contact with s ecific hot
sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 2. Get started with your
computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Work with Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Windows hel information . . . . . . . . . 10
Lenovo Vantage, Lenovo PC Manager and Lenovo
Smart Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
The Novo Button menu . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
O en the Novo Button menu . . . . . . . . 10
Interact with your com uter . . . . . . . . . . 11
Hotkeys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Chapter 3. Explore your computer . . 3
Intelligent features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Eye Care Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Smart Noise Cancelling . . . . . . . . . . 13
Smart A earance . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Manage ower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Rechargeable battery ack . . . . . . . . 13
Set ower button behavior. . . . . . . . . 14
A ower lan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Change settings in UEFI/BIOS setu utility . . . . 15
What is UEFI/BIOS setu utility . . . . . . . 15
O en the UEFI/BIOS setu utility . . . . . . 15
Select boot devices . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Change hotkey mode . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Set asswords in UEFI/BIOS setu utility . . . . . 15
Password ty es . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Set administrator assword . . . . . . . . 16
Change or remove administrator assword . . 16
Set user assword . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Enable ower-on assword . . . . . . . . 17
Set hard disk assword . . . . . . . . . . 17
Change or remove hard disk assword . . . . 17
Chapter 4. Help and support . . . . . 9
Frequently asked questions . . . . . . . . . . 19
How do I artition my storage drive . . . . . 19
What should I do if my com uter sto s
res onding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
What should I do if I s ill liquid on the
com uter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Where can I get the latest device drivers and
UEFI/BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Why does my com uter start automatically
when I o en the lid . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Self-hel resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
What is a CRU? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
CRUs for your roduct model . . . . . . . . . 21
Call Lenovo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Before you contact Lenovo . . . . . . . . 21
Lenovo Customer Su ort Center . . . . . . 22
Purchase additional services. . . . . . . . . . 22
Appendix A. Function descriptions
for Lenovo hotkeys . . . . . . . . . . 23
Appendix B. Notices and
trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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About this guide
• This guide a lies to Lenovo roduct model(s) listed below. Illustrations in this guide may look slightly
different from your roduct model.
Model name Machine type (MT)
IdeaPad Slim 5 Light 14ABR8
82XS
IdeaPad Slim 5 Light 14ABR8 1
• For further com liance information, refer to the Generic Safety and Compliance Notices at
htt s:// csu ort.lenovo.com/docs/generic_notices.
• This guide may contain information about accessories, features, and software that are not available on all
models.
• This guide contains instructions that are based on the Windows o erating system. These instructions are
not a licable if you install and use other o erating systems.
• Microsoft® makes eriodic feature changes to the Windows® o erating system through Windows U date.
As a result, the o erating system related instructions may become outdated. Refer to Microsoft resources
for the latest information.
• The content of the guide is subject to change without notice. To obtain the latest version, go to
htt s://su ort.lenovo.com.
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