Dell 7500 manual Installing the Software DVD Decoder Optional, At the Welcome Screen, click Next

7.At the Welcome Screen, click Next>.

The internal modem files are copied to your hard-disk drive.

The New Hardware Found window appears, the driver is installed, and the installation is completed.

Installing the Software DVD Decoder (Optional)

The DVD decoder driver allows you to play DVD movies on the computer.

NOTE: When you are promoted to select a directory, Dell recommends using the default directory settings.

1.Insert the Dell Inspiron 7500 Software DVD Decoder CD into the DVD-ROM drive.

2.Click the Start button, and then click Run.

3.In the Run dialog box, type x:\setup.exe, where x is the DVD-ROM drive letter.

The DVD-ROM drive letter is usually D.

4.Click OK.

5.The Welcome window appears. Click Next>.

6.At the Choose Destination Location screen, click Next>.

7.At the Select Program Folder screen, click Next>.

8.At the Start Copying Files screen, click Next>.

9.At the Setup Complete screen, be sure that the Yes, I want to restart my computer now radio button is selected, and then click Finish.

The first time you play a DVD after installing this driver, you may be prompted to change the region setting.

Creating the Save-to-Disk Suspend File

After you have installed a new hard-disk drive or rebuilt a hard-disk drive that had corrupted software, use the phdisk.exe utility to create a save-to-disk suspend file after you partition the drive. When save-to-disk suspend mode is activated, all system data is stored in this file.

1.Save and close any open files, exit any open application programs, and restart the computer.

2.Insert the Microsoft Boot Disk Windows 98 Series diskette into the diskette drive.

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