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What is a Search Engine
Why Am I Getting an Error Message
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Contacting Service and Support
Appendix
Index
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Introduction
Who Should Read this Guide
For more information, see online Help
Using Your Home Internet Appliance Getting Started Guide
what
why
Symbols Used in This Guide
Special Text
Used in This
Guide
Safety Tips
Safety Tips (continued)
The Safety and Comfort Guide
The Safety and Comfort Guide includes information on:
➜Setting up your use area for maximum comfort
➜Using a grounding plug to prevent electrical shorts, shocks, or fires
Caring for Your Home Internet Appliance
Appliance Care and Additional Safety Precautions
Make sure you:
Take special precautions when using your Home Internet Appliance in the
➜Operate your Home Internet Appliance on a stable surface
Where Can
Find More
Information
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Features
Your Home
Internet
Appliance at a
Glance
Your Home Internet Line-of-SightConnection
Appliance at a
Glance (continued)
Keyboard Batteries
Keyboard Basics
Keyboard Basics (continued)
Ctrl
Alt
The Left Side of the Keyboard
The Right Side of the Keyboard
Buttons
Internet Buttons (continued)
The Push Pad
The Push Pad
Pointing Device Techniques
(continued)
To use the Pointing Device, you need to know how to move
the cursor and how to click and select an item
Understanding
the Display
Controls
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Getting 3 Online
Introducing the
MSN
Companion
Features
MSN Companion Features (continued)
Buttons and Links
Tool
How it works
Link:
Radio Button: Used to
Registration
MSN Companion Registration (continued)
➜Use a combination of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and numbers
➜Don't choose words or numbers that might be easy for a stranger to guess
Choose a New Member Password
When you have confirmed your new secret password, press the continue button
Select Your Time Zone
Verify Internet Phone Numbers
let me
choose other numbers
Choose Internet Phone Number #1
Choose Internet Phone Number #2
You’re Done
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Welcome to
the Internet
What is the Internet
What Is the Web
online
What Do I Need in Order to Surf the Web
To begin surfing, you must have the following:
Internet Addresses (URLs)
www.compaq.com
What Is a URL
www.name-of-company.com
.org
Screen Layout
Hyperlinks
Start Page
The Browser Toolbar
start
mail
messenger
search the web
Search Engines
Searching the Web
Searching the Web (continued)
Error Messages
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E-mail
E-mailBasics
E-mail
Addresses
Messages
Reading Your
Reading Your E-mailMessages (continued)
Accessing Your Mail from the Toolbar
E-mailAttachments
➜picture files
➜video files
➜audio files
➜Web pages
Types of Attachments You Can Receive
The types of attachments that you can see or hear with your MSN Companion are:
File
Type
How it is displayed
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Personalizing
E-Mail
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Online 6 Shopping
E-Commerce
Online Security
Know the Seller
Keep Good
Records
Tips for Safe Online Shopping
Let’s Go
Shopping
Let’s Go Shopping! (continued)
Tab Links
Tables of Contents
Pictures and Colored Text
Search Boxes
Find
Drop Down Selection Boxes
1.Place your cursor on the scroll bar on the side of the list
2.Click the bar and move the push pad to move the bar up and down
Shopping Practice
http://www.productopia.com
2.Type http://www.productopia.com into the Address line of your screen
4. Type the word crib into the Search box
5.Click Search. A page containing information about cribs displays
Under
Product matches
To buy the crib, you would click one of the options under
Buy Online
8.Click Home to return to Productopia’s Home Page
Let’s Go Shopping! More Shopping Practice (continued)
http://mothernature.com
Type the word
vitamins
All Products
4. Click Find. A list of vitamin products displays
Buy
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Changing 7 Your Settings
Settings
Favorites
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Options and 8 Accessories
Connecting a Printer
Printing
Connecting a Mouse
Connecting
External
Speakers
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Getting Help
Where Do I Find Help
Where Do I Find
Warranty
Help? (continued)
Troubleshooting
Symptom
Contacting Service and Support
Browser
Solution
Display
•Adjust the brightness and contrast controls until the text becomes clear
•Adjust the font size
•Adjust the contrast control on the display
•Make sure the unit is turned on and plugged in
Keyboard
Dialing occurs but you fail to connect
Connection fails repeatedly
Internet takes too long to download
Internet
•Verify that all telephone handsets on the same line are on the receiver
•Check that the Appliance is connected to the phone line
•Make sure your MSN account is still active
•Call your Internet Service Provider if your account has expired
Printer
•Make sure the power cable is plugged into an AC power source
Power
Speakers
Troubleshooting System (continued)
System
Appliance seems to have
locked up
the on-screenMSN Companion toolbar
to reset the unit
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Appendix A
Federal Communications Commission Notice (continued)
➜Modifications
Cables
For questions regarding this FCC declaration, contact:
Compaq Computer Corporation
Telecom Network Telecom Network Approvals
Approvals
U.S. Regulations Governing the Use of Modems
Ringer Equivalence Number
Telecom Network Approvals (continued)
Telephone
Consumer
Protection Act
Telephone Consumer Protection Act of
Canadian
Regulations
Governing the Use
of Modems
Canadian Regulations Governing the Use of Modems
NOTE
NOTICE
Governing the Use of
Modems (continued)
European Union Notice
European Union Notice
European Union Notice (continued)
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