Filter
Top Products
Contents
ii
Faxing from programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Faxing a scanned document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Automatically retry sending a fax . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Canceling a fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Automatically canceling a fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Receiving and viewing a fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Chapter 4: Playing and Creating Media Files31
Playing music and movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Playing WAV audio files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Playing audio and video files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Playing optical discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Creating audio files and music libraries . . . . . . . . . . 35
Creating music files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Building a music library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Editing track information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Creating and editing videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Editing videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Transferring your video to your computer . . . . . 38
Editing your video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Saving your video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Creating music CDs and video DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Creating a music CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Creating data CDs and DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Using Windows Media Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Manually updating the Media Center Program Guide 43
Chapter 5: Networking Your Computer . . . 45
Introduction to Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Using a router . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Creating an Ethernet network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Installing Ethernet cards and drivers . . . . . . . . . 48
Making sure your broadband connection works 48
Naming the computers and the workgroup . . . 48
Configuring the TCP/IP protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Setting up an Ethernet network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Testing your network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Sharing resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Sharing drives and printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Using the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Viewing shared drives and folders . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Mapping a network drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Opening files across the network . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Copying files across the network . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Printing files across the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Adding a printer to your network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55