If you have a Lenovo ThinkPad, you may see an independent battery alongside other accessories such as cables and power brick in the package. In this case, you need to turn your ThinkPad upside down, and insert the battery with its terminal inward into the laptop. USB-C ports have been taking over rectangular Type-A ports on most of the latest laptops. In this case, you should simply for you to connect the charger to the Type-C port on your device. For some models, such as Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 or all Huawei Matebooks, the manufactures marked one USB-C port as the charging port, so in this case you should plug into this port.

Once you start up, the Welcome screen will display, and Cortana, which is Microsoft’s virtual assistant, will give you a voice walkthrough. She’ll ask you questions, and you can respond with your voice on some laptop models (but keep in mind that this will not work on many laptops). If you’d like to mute her, then you can select the speaker icon at the bottom of the screen to change the volume.

If you don’t have an internet connection right now, select “I don’t have internet”.

If you do not have a Microsoft account, then select, “Create account”.

If you have two step verification enabled, then you will have to authenticate using that as well.

If your laptop supports biometric authentication, then you will be prompted to setup those.

If you do not want to tailor your device, then click or tap Skip. This is not recommended though. After this step, you may see some steps that don’t apply to you. Some of the options that are displayed in this article may only apply if you selected a certain customization option. If you see a step that does not correspond to what you are seeing, then skip that step.

If you do not want to link your phone to your laptop, then Select on “Skip for now”.

If you do not want to back up your files, then Select “Only save files to this PC”. Although, keep in mind that your files may be permanently lost if you choose this option.

This option will not display if you already have Xbox Game Pass.

During the update process, your screen may flicker. Don’t worry, your laptop isn’t broken, it’s just the graphics drivers updating.

Check out How to Rename Your PC in Windows 10 for instructions.