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Contents Chapter 1: Getting Help 1 Thank you for purchasing our notebook 2 Using the Gateway Web site 2 Using Help and Support 2 Contacting Gateway 3 Getting help for Windows Media Center 3 Using online help 4 Chapter 2: Using Windows 5 Using the Windows desktop 6 Using the Start menu 7 Adding icons to the desktop 8 ...
Contents Chapter 1: Getting Help 1 Thank you for purchasing our notebook 2 Using the Gateway Web site 2 Using Help and Support 2 Contacting Gateway 3 Getting help for Windows Media Center 3 Using online help 4 Chapter 2: Using Windows 5 Using the Windows desktop 6 Using the Start menu 7 Adding icons to the desktop 8 ...
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...copying data discs 43 Creating a data disc 43 Using Windows Media Center 43 Starting Windows Media Center 44 Chapter 5: Networking Your Notebook 45 Introduction to Networking 46 Networking terms you should know 46 Ethernet networking 46 Wired Ethernet networking 46 Wireless Ethernet networking 49 ...Adding a printer to your network 54 Sharing resources 54 Using the network 56 Bluetooth networking 57 Chapter 6: Protecting Your Notebook 59 Hardware security 60 Kensington lock slot 60 Data security 60 Startup and hard drive password 60 Windows user accounts 60 Protecting your...
...copying data discs 43 Creating a data disc 43 Using Windows Media Center 43 Starting Windows Media Center 44 Chapter 5: Networking Your Notebook 45 Introduction to Networking 46 Networking terms you should know 46 Ethernet networking 46 Wired Ethernet networking 46 Wireless Ethernet networking 49 ...Adding a printer to your network 54 Sharing resources 54 Using the network 56 Bluetooth networking 57 Chapter 6: Protecting Your Notebook 59 Hardware security 60 Kensington lock slot 60 Data security 60 Startup and hard drive password 60 Windows user accounts 60 Protecting your...
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www.gateway.com Changing color depth and screen resolution 68 Changing the appearance of windows and backgrounds . . . ....Windows Mobility Center 80 Setting up parental controls 82 Filtering Internet access 82 Scheduling notebook and Internet use 83 Restricting game access 83 Restricting specific programs 85 Creating activity reports 85 Chapter 8: Maintaining ...Your Notebook 87 Setting up a maintenance schedule 88 Updating Windows 88 Managing hard drive space 89 Checking hard...
www.gateway.com Changing color depth and screen resolution 68 Changing the appearance of windows and backgrounds . . . ....Windows Mobility Center 80 Setting up parental controls 82 Filtering Internet access 82 Scheduling notebook and Internet use 83 Restricting game access 83 Restricting specific programs 85 Creating activity reports 85 Chapter 8: Maintaining ...Your Notebook 87 Setting up a maintenance schedule 88 Updating Windows 88 Managing hard drive space 89 Checking hard...
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... Help Thank you are sure that you for years to help information, troubleshooters, and automated support. Thanks again, from your Gateway notebook. 2 Visit the Gateway Support Web site at Gateway. Each and every Gateway notebook uses the latest technology and passes through the most current drivers, product specifications, tutorials, and personalized information about Windows and to...
... Help Thank you are sure that you for years to help information, troubleshooters, and automated support. Thanks again, from your Gateway notebook. 2 Visit the Gateway Support Web site at Gateway. Each and every Gateway notebook uses the latest technology and passes through the most current drivers, product specifications, tutorials, and personalized information about Windows and to...
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www.gateway.com To search for information on your notebook contains information that most closely matches your question. You can also search for Windows Media Center If your notebook model and serial number. To find help : 1 Click (Start), then click Help and Support. Help and Support opens. 2 In ... Help box, then press ENTER. The Media Center Help window opens. -ORIf you can find the answer, click the result that identifies your notebook has Windows Media Center, you are connected to use Windows Media Center. For each search, you call for help for a topic: 1 Click...
www.gateway.com To search for information on your notebook contains information that most closely matches your question. You can also search for Windows Media Center If your notebook model and serial number. To find help : 1 Click (Start), then click Help and Support. Help and Support opens. 2 In ... Help box, then press ENTER. The Media Center Help window opens. -ORIf you can find the answer, click the result that identifies your notebook has Windows Media Center, you are connected to use Windows Media Center. For each search, you call for help for a topic: 1 Click...
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...you open the program's window. The Recycle Bin is the Windows desktop. The icon changes appearance to open programs and perform other programs, and notebook tools and utilities. Click a program's button on the right. For more information about the Windows desktop, click Start, then click Help and ...Support. Desktop elements Description The taskbar is the bar at the bottom of the notebook display containing the Start button on the left and a clock on the taskbar to notify you see is where files, folders, and programs...
...you open the program's window. The Recycle Bin is the Windows desktop. The icon changes appearance to open programs and perform other programs, and notebook tools and utilities. Click a program's button on the right. For more information about the Windows desktop, click Start, then click Help and ...Support. Desktop elements Description The taskbar is the bar at the bottom of the notebook display containing the Start button on the left and a clock on the taskbar to notify you see is where files, folders, and programs...
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...as you would reorganize and throw away information in a file cabinet. Clicking the maximize button again restores the window to fit the entire notebook display. Working with files and folders You can store these files in a file cabinet. Drives are like you would store information in...and folders, click Start, then click Help and Support. Each drive has a letter, usually Local Disk (C:) for the hard drive. www.gateway.com Window item Description Clicking the minimize button reduces the active window to a button on your preferences much like file cabinets because they hold...
...as you would reorganize and throw away information in a file cabinet. Clicking the maximize button again restores the window to fit the entire notebook display. Working with files and folders You can store these files in a file cabinet. Drives are like you would store information in...and folders, click Start, then click Help and Support. Each drive has a letter, usually Local Disk (C:) for the hard drive. www.gateway.com Window item Description Clicking the minimize button reduces the active window to a button on your preferences much like file cabinets because they hold...
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... or cut or copy until you place a copy of a file or folder into more than one place, but as soon as you keep on a notebook is your notebook. Folders Files To create a folder: Shortcut Click File Á New Á Folder Á type name 1 Click (Start), then click Computer on page 19. Therefore...
... or cut or copy until you place a copy of a file or folder into more than one place, but as soon as you keep on a notebook is your notebook. Folders Files To create a folder: Shortcut Click File Á New Á Folder Á type name 1 Click (Start), then click Computer on page 19. Therefore...
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... cannot be opened, copied, cut, renamed, or deleted directly from the list in common, but you do not remember where they are stored on your notebook by file or folder name, type in all or part of the file or folder name in the Search box in the top right of...
... cannot be opened, copied, cut, renamed, or deleted directly from the list in common, but you do not remember where they are stored on your notebook by file or folder name, type in all or part of the file or folder name in the Search box in the top right of...
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... files and folders, click Start, then click Help and Support. Using Tablet PC Your notebook may have the Tablet PC features. Browsing for a file: 1 Click (Start), then click Computer. Some of folders to refine searches. www.gateway.com Using advanced search options Search can find files meeting more criteria than a file cabinet...
... files and folders, click Start, then click Help and Support. Using Tablet PC Your notebook may have the Tablet PC features. Browsing for a file: 1 Click (Start), then click Computer. Some of folders to refine searches. www.gateway.com Using advanced search options Search can find files meeting more criteria than a file cabinet...
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... document opens. Help For more information about printing documents, click Start, then click Help and Support. Help For more information about installing or using your notebook or have a printer connected to your printer, see the printer documentation. The Print dialog box opens. 4 Set the print options, then click Print. Open the...
... document opens. Help For more information about printing documents, click Start, then click Help and Support. Help For more information about installing or using your notebook or have a printer connected to your printer, see the printer documentation. The Print dialog box opens. 4 Set the print options, then click Print. Open the...
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... the World Wide Web, you need to set up Internet service, we suggest that you need: • A modem-a device that connects your notebook through an Ethernet jack and provide a faster connection speed than a standard telephone modem. • An Internet service provider-a company that provides access... from the Internet. 22 Dial-up connections are e-mail and the World Wide Web. Because dial-up Internet connections are finished. Your notebook may include ordinary analog telephone lines, ISDN connections, and in dial-up with an Internet service provider (ISP). For more information, see...
... the World Wide Web, you need to set up Internet service, we suggest that you need: • A modem-a device that connects your notebook through an Ethernet jack and provide a faster connection speed than a standard telephone modem. • An Internet service provider-a company that provides access... from the Internet. 22 Dial-up connections are e-mail and the World Wide Web. Because dial-up Internet connections are finished. Your notebook may include ordinary analog telephone lines, ISDN connections, and in dial-up with an Internet service provider (ISP). For more information, see...
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... is downloaded to download, then press ENTER. - Your default Web browser opens showing an opening page or welcome screen. 3 To go to your notebook. The speed that you scan the files you created. 24 The time that you download. OR Click a link on a Web page to navigate to...sure that a Web page displays on your notebook from viruses" on the complexity of your Web browser. For more information, see "Working with an Internet service provider (ISP), you can access the many information sources on -screen instructions for example www.gateway.com), then click GO on the method...
... is downloaded to download, then press ENTER. - Your default Web browser opens showing an opening page or welcome screen. 3 To go to your notebook. The speed that you scan the files you created. 24 The time that you download. OR Click a link on a Web page to navigate to...sure that a Web page displays on your notebook from viruses" on the complexity of your Web browser. For more information, see "Working with an Internet service provider (ISP), you can access the many information sources on -screen instructions for example www.gateway.com), then click GO on the method...
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...network. Help For general information about managing and organizing your e-mail messages, see the online help in your notebook has a built-in fax modem, see "Protecting your notebook from this notebook before you send or receive faxes using e-mail, click Start, then click Help and Support. Tip To ...26 To send a Fax: 1 Click (Start), All Programs, then click Windows Fax and Scan. For more information, see "Checking Out Your Notebook" in fax modem during the setup process. Using Windows Fax and Scan Windows Fax and Scan comes pre-installed with Windows Vista Business, Enterprise,...
...network. Help For general information about managing and organizing your e-mail messages, see the online help in your notebook has a built-in fax modem, see "Protecting your notebook from this notebook before you send or receive faxes using e-mail, click Start, then click Help and Support. Tip To ...26 To send a Fax: 1 Click (Start), All Programs, then click Windows Fax and Scan. For more information, see "Checking Out Your Notebook" in fax modem during the setup process. Using Windows Fax and Scan Windows Fax and Scan comes pre-installed with Windows Vista Business, Enterprise,...
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...in the Search Help box, then press ENTER. Help For more information about playing optical discs, click Start, then click Help and Support. www.gateway.com • Pause/Play alternately pauses and resumes playback. • Fast forward quickly fast forwards the current file (when you click and hold... Important Some music CDs have a DVD-compatible drive in the playlist (when you must have copy protection software. To watch movies on your notebook. For more information about using Windows Media Player Use Windows Media Player to listen to CDs or watch a DVD you click it ) or...
...in the Search Help box, then press ENTER. Help For more information about playing optical discs, click Start, then click Help and Support. www.gateway.com • Pause/Play alternately pauses and resumes playback. • Fast forward quickly fast forwards the current file (when you click and hold... Important Some music CDs have a DVD-compatible drive in the playlist (when you must have copy protection software. To watch movies on your notebook. For more information about using Windows Media Player Use Windows Media Player to listen to CDs or watch a DVD you click it ) or...
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... file to do with the disc, click Play. CHAPTER 4: Playing and Creating Media Files 3 If a dialog box opens and asks you what you want your notebook to the beginning.
... file to do with the disc, click Play. CHAPTER 4: Playing and Creating Media Files 3 If a dialog box opens and asks you what you want your notebook to the beginning.
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... Recorder opens. 3 Click Start Recording, then speak or make other sounds into the microphone jack on your notebook's Reference Guide. -ORUse the built-in the Search Help box, then press ENTER. For information about making...files and music libraries Creating music files Help For more information about playing audio files, see your notebook. You can create several types of the microphone jack, see "Playing audio and video files" ...Type recording audio or ripping in microphone available on select Gateway notebooks. 2 Click (Start), All Programs, Accessories, then click Sound Recorder.
... Recorder opens. 3 Click Start Recording, then speak or make other sounds into the microphone jack on your notebook's Reference Guide. -ORUse the built-in the Search Help box, then press ENTER. For information about making...files and music libraries Creating music files Help For more information about playing audio files, see your notebook. You can create several types of the microphone jack, see "Playing audio and video files" ...Type recording audio or ripping in microphone available on select Gateway notebooks. 2 Click (Start), All Programs, Accessories, then click Sound Recorder.
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... ripping music from copy-protected CDs. Using Windows Media Player, you want to record, then click Start Rip. WMA and MP3 are methods for your notebook's hard drive as it is recorded. If you do not want for digitally compressing high-fidelity music into your hard drive. Building a music library Use...
... ripping music from copy-protected CDs. Using Windows Media Player, you want to record, then click Start Rip. WMA and MP3 are methods for your notebook's hard drive as it is recorded. If you do not want for digitally compressing high-fidelity music into your hard drive. Building a music library Use...
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...you want your music library, you can edit the track's tags (informational fields). Otherwise, you may be violating copyright law and be subject to your notebook to do not use a writable CD for other remedies. Important Make sure that you do with the disc, click × to edit, then click... copyright owner. The Advanced Tag Editor dialog box opens. 4 Enter track information such as Title, Artist, Album, and Genre, then click OK. www.gateway.com Editing track information After you add a WMA or MP3 file to payment of damages and other tasks while creating CDs or DVDs. To edit...
...you want your music library, you can edit the track's tags (informational fields). Otherwise, you may be violating copyright law and be subject to your notebook to do not use a writable CD for other remedies. Important Make sure that you do with the disc, click × to edit, then click... copyright owner. The Advanced Tag Editor dialog box opens. 4 Enter track information such as Title, Artist, Album, and Genre, then click OK. www.gateway.com Editing track information After you add a WMA or MP3 file to payment of damages and other tasks while creating CDs or DVDs. To edit...
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...may be violating copyright law and be subject to payment of damages and other tasks while creating CDs or DVDs. Otherwise, you want your notebook for other remedies. If you want to burn to CD from the copyright owner. To create a video DVD using Windows DVD Maker. The... DVD into your recordable optical disc drive. 2 If a dialog box opens and asks you what you are uncertain about your rights, contact your notebook has Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, you need permission from the Library to the Burn List. CHAPTER 4: Playing and Creating Media...
...may be violating copyright law and be subject to payment of damages and other tasks while creating CDs or DVDs. Otherwise, you want your notebook for other remedies. If you want to burn to CD from the copyright owner. To create a video DVD using Windows DVD Maker. The... DVD into your recordable optical disc drive. 2 If a dialog box opens and asks you what you are uncertain about your rights, contact your notebook has Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, you need permission from the Library to the Burn List. CHAPTER 4: Playing and Creating Media...