Setting Up Tablet

[Svejk]

I've spent all day connecting it to my 'hub'. To be honest, I just took it over to the 3 shop and the young lad did it in 10 seconds. (after I'd spent 5 fruitless hours at it)
Anyhoo, find it quite tricky using touch-screen keypad and now it wants me to put pass-words in to access, well, anything really.
The question is, is there a short-cut like using one of these bits of lead, join it to my lap-top, and sort of transfer everything from my lap-top to the tablet, if you know what I mean? Thanks for any help. ;-) (oh, and pretend you're talking to an idiot and keep it simple, ta)

[Tuvok]

Which tablet have you got?

[Svejk]

What am I doing? I was trying to sign in on the tablet to answer you. And I had the lap-top right next to me. I think it says Hachne. 7 inch. Does that sound right?

[Svejk]

Does it make a difference?

[ukbod2015]

is it this one - good price
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00SAXOHDA

[Svejk]

That'll be it. It's got an arty-farty brochure thing so you can't read it properly.

[Huderon]

Yes, you can attach the tablet to the laptop with a lead. One end will look like a normal (large) USB connection, the other will be a small USB plug. It will have come with something you can use to recharge the battery. If it is a mains plug, you might be lucky and have one where the lead is the same one you need to connect the tablet to the laptop, otherwise the lead which allows you to recharge the battery from the laptop is the same one you use to transfer data from one to the other.

If by shortcut you mean can you transfer your saved passwords on the laptop to the tablet, the answer is no. Apart from anything else, the places where they are stored on the two devices will be different, and as like as not they will be stored in different formats on the two. so as you use each new app on the tablet, you enter the password and allow the tablet to remember the password. That will be automatic for email addresses, and should also be automatic for other apps which need a password.

You should be able to transfer documents, images and the like from your laptop to the tablet. Once attached to the laptop, the tablet will appear as an extra drive on the laptop (I'm assuming the laptop runs a version of Windows). Just use the file managenent facilities of Windows to copy things from the laptop to the tablet or vice versa. The most likely folder names you will need to use on the tablet are Documents (for, well documents), Pictures and Music. There will also be a folder called DCIM which holds another folder called Camera - that's where photos taken on the tablet get stored.

[hc4361]

There are password managers you can use for websites- they securely store your passwords in the cloud so when you have logged in to it on your device. I have been using LastPass for years.

[Svejk]

Thanks to all who answered. Especially Huderon who could have been sat in the room with me answering every question that came to mind.
On my lap-top I'm permanently logged into some sites and others, sort of, auto log on. So I, obviously erroneously, hoped that by joining the 2 devices the tablet would do the same.
In time I may join them to transfer the music I've bought onto the tablet but I'm fed up of it for now. It was a gift, otherwise it would already be consigned to the running machine. When I see the person again I want to say, honestly, that I use it.
I might try that blue-tooth keyboard thing but first I'll persevere with the on-screen and see if I can get used to it.
Thanks again to all. ;)

[Huderon]

Svejk, with regard to the passwords, hc4361 suggested using Last Pass as a password manager (there are others around). You could use that on the laptop to store all the passwords you use already, then sync them to the tablet with the Android version of the same program, which would solve that problem for you.

I find my tablet handy for work occasionally, like the times when I need to fill out a spreadsheet when i'm out and about- it's easier to use the tablet rather than record what I need on paper and then enter it on the computer later.

Other than that, I use mine when I am staying away from home to keep in touch with people (email and Skype), look things up on the net, for reading with either the Kindle app or some similar one, occasionally as a sat nav and for a few other things as well.

I'm a hunt and peck, two finger typist using a normal keyboard, on the tablet it's one finger only stuff. But I'm still faster doing that and using the autofill and autocorrect facilities of the tablet than my wife is on her Kindle with two thumbs ignoring the autofill and autocorrect facility. I wouldn't want to try writing an essay or a novel on the tablet, but it does the job or me when I need it to.