Chromebook User Guide

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Welcome to Chrome Story’s Chromebook / Chrome OS user guide. If you are new to Chromebooks or a seasoned Chromebook user, you will find this collection of Chromebook tips useful.

We have written various How-to guides over the years to help Chromebook users, experts, and dummies alike. This page lists the best of such guides.

New to Chromebooks? Start Here

If you are new to Chrome OS and Chromebooks, the best place to start is my Getting Started Guide for Chromebooks. This is a quick read and covers most of the things that new users get stuck with on their first day with Chrome OS.

Also, check out our collection of 65+ Chromebook tips here.

Download Free PDF Chromebook Guide for Students

Let us start with a free guide that we created specifically for students. If you are a student with a Chromebook, or an IT admin or a school teacher with a lot of kids using Chromebook around you, this a perfect guide to download and share with them.

Click here to download the PDF.

Customize Your Chromebook

Managing Your Chromebook

This section contains information on managing your Chromebook.

How to Get Things Done

Advanced Chromebook Tips

This is a collection of things you can try if you are a power user and wants to tweak your Chromebook and play with it.

Signing In

You will need a Google account to use Chrome OS. You can later create local accounts called Supervised Users for specific use cases. However, a Google account is required to set up and manage Chrome OS.

You can add up to 17 people to your Chromebook.
For those quick browsing sessions and also to hand over your computer to guests without any worry, use the Guest Mode to sign in.

How To Add a New Bluetooth Device To Your Chromebook

To add a new Bluetooth device to your Chromebook:

Click on the bottom right corner of the screen where your profile picture and time is.
Choose Add device.
Select the device you wish to add from the list of available Bluetooth devices and click Connect.
Follow the on-screen instructions to complete pairing.

To connect to a device that is already added, click the device from the Add Bluetooth device popup menu and click Connect.

How to Powerwash Chromebook Without Logging In

What if you get your hands on a Chromebook with a user account already logged in? If the user has blocked signing in of new users from the login screen, you cannot format the Chromebook to change the owner or to get your self in. In such a scenario, you need a way to reset your Chromebook without logging in.

At the login screen, press ALT + CTRL + SHIFT +R and tap the Restart button. You will get the prompt to Powerwash the Chromebook. After the powerwash, log in using the new account.