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Contents 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 ii

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Contents
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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