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- Page 1 User Guide After you’re set up, use this guide to explore MSN TV.
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Page 2: What's In This Guide
What’s in this guide Welcome to MSN TV! Settings and Account Printing Favorites Your MSN TV home page Adding users to your MSN TV account Connecting your printer Saving favorite Web sites The Using MSN TV center Setting user restrictions for a child How to print Organizing your favorites Getting help on MSN TV... - Page 3 By now, you’ve connected your Internet Welcome player and created your MSN TV account; you’re probably eager to start exploring. to MSN TV! If you haven’t set up your Internet player, use the instructions in the Setup Guide to get everything connected. Come back here when you’re done.
- Page 4 Your MSN TV home page The Using MSN TV center No matter where you go on MSN TV This is a great place to start your Toward the bottom of the home page, you’ll see links to The MSN TV newsletter includes articles, MSN TV news, or on the Internet, if you want to MSN TV adventure.
- Page 5 Getting help on MSN TV Mail Looking for a handy reference To browse all of the Help topics available, press the Home showing you the basics of MSN TV? key on your keyboard or remote, and then choose the Help link on the home page. Already have a good grasp of the service’s features and ready to learn In the main Help index, the topics are split into categories.
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Page 6: Reading E-Mail
Mail Reading e-mail You can communicate with people The parts of an e-mail address Your Inbox is the starting point for E-mail messages are delivered to your Inbox. When you all over the world by using e-mail. everything you do in Mail, from have unread e-mail, the blue light on the front of your Here are some example e-mail addresses: Internet player will illuminate, and the status bar at... -
Page 7: Writing E-Mail
Writing e-mail Saving and organizing your e-mail Writing an e-mail is as easy as writing On MSN TV, you can save e-mail To write an e-mail message To create a folder a letter. Your messages just get there messages you want to keep, and Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the Press the Mail key on your keyboard. -
Page 8: Using The Address Book
Opening and viewing e-mail attachments Using the Address book Your friends may send documents You don’t have to remember the To open and view a document you receive in e-mail To add an e-mail address from an e-mail you receive and photos along with their e-mails. - Page 9 Dealing with junk mail You probably already get junk mail The people who send these unwanted messages are To set up a Junk mail filter To block an e-mail address letters delivered by the post office. called spammers. Some unscrupulous companies may Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the share e-mail addresses with spammers, or a spammer...
- Page 10 Browsing the Web and using Search...
- Page 11 Browsing the Web and using Search Going to a Web site you know Imagine a library bigger than any Many organizations now put their You can browse and explore the Web on your own or There are three ways to go to a Web site you know building can hold, a world-wide Web address in their ads or on you can use Search to find what you want.
- Page 12 Finding information with Search Narrowing down a search There are millions of Web pages. To If your search gets too many There are four ways to search on MSN TV Type moon in the Search box on the home page, find exactly what you want, you have results, use more keywords to and then choose Go.
- Page 13 Searching for a phrase or name Favorites Often, you may want to look up Here are some other searches you might want to try a phrase or a complete name. To • Look up the name of your high school to see if you make sure Search looks for the can find information on your former schoolmates or to find out how the school has changed since you...
- Page 14 Favorites Saving favorite Web sites When you find a Web page you like Saving a Web page as a You can then access your favorite sites by choosing To save a Web page as a favorite and know you’ll want to return to, you favorite is easy.
- Page 15 Organizing your favorites Creating shortcuts to your favorites After you’ve used the Web for awhile, If you create a shortcut to a Web To create a favorites folder To create a shortcut to a Web site you may find that you have several page, you can get there by pressing Go to Favorites by pressing the Favs key on the Go to the Web site you want.
- Page 16 Messenger...
- Page 17 Messenger Exchanging instant messages Passing a note to a friend is perfectly Before you begin exchanging instant They can send instant messages back to you, too. Instant To make someone a contact OK on MSN TV. With MSN Messenger, messages with someone, you need messaging is quicker than an e-mail —...
- Page 18 Starting instant message conversations Don’t be shy. Start a conversation! You can do other things on MSN TV, such as surf the Web To start a conversation To start another conversation You can have a conversation with or read an e-mail message, while you have a conversation From anywhere in Messenger, choose Contact List.
- Page 19 Blocking people in Messenger Chat If someone you don’t know or don’t To add someone directly to your Block list want to communicate with tries to Go to Messenger by pressing the Msgr key on the key- contact you with Messenger, there board or by choosing Messenger on the home page.
- Page 20 Chat Choosing a chat room Few things in life are as nice as With so much going on these days, Things move fast in chat rooms, so have your keyboard Got something on your mind but you’re not sure what chatting with friends.
- Page 21 Creating a chat nickname Inside a chat room Before you can begin chatting, you Being in a chat room is a lot To create your nickname To whisper to someone need to create a chat nickname, like being at a party. On the page that prompts you to create a While you’re in a chat room, choose Whisper.
- Page 22 Settings and Account...
- Page 23 Settings and Account Adding users to your MSN TV account Settings and Account let you turn When you first signed up for MSN TV, You can also do things such as add a user, set user restric- Each user gets their own e-mail address, password, things on or off, make changes, you created an account.
- Page 24 Setting user restrictions for a child Making Web pages easier to read Are you concerned about a child’s You can easily change the size of To set or change user restrictions To change the text size on Web pages use of the Internet? You can limit the text you see on Web pages.
- Page 25 Viewing your MSN TV billing information MSN TV You can see billing information for To view your billing information your MSN TV account at any time. centers Sign in to MSN TV as the primary user. (the user you created when you registered). On the home page, choose Account.
- Page 26 MSN TV centers Customizing News, Money, and Weather Centers are gateways to online News Money For example, Entertainment has news, articles, and gossip news, games, stores, and more. You on show business. Sports lets you know the score about News has a wide variety of news stories, from the top In Money, you’ll find the latest business and financial your favorite athletes, competitions, and teams.
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Page 27: Music And Video
Music and Weather More Cities lets you follow the daily weather in up to three other cities. You might want to follow the weather video Weather is also customized for your ZIP code so you get at your favorite vacation spot, or in your hometown. local weather reports. - Page 28 Music and video Finding Windows Media-compatible audio and video content online There’s much more than just text Listening to music and radio There are lots of ways to get To find audio and video content and pictures on the Internet. Music, Windows Media-compatible audio •...
- Page 29 Using the Media Player controls In a movie theater, a projectionist Here’s what the Media Player looks like. Here are some tips on using the Media Player runs the projector so that you • Look for the Windows Media Player version of the can relax and watch the movie.
- Page 30 Photos...
- Page 31 Photos Receiving and viewing photos in e-mail It’s always nice to get pictures of What you’ll need When you get an e-mail with a To open and view photos you receive in e-mail someone you care about. With photo attached, a paper clip Choose the e-mail with the photos to open it.
- Page 32 Viewing and sending your own photos Once you have your memory card To view your photos To see a slideshow of your photos To send a photo reader connected to your Internet Insert the memory card into your card reader. Be On the Photos viewer page, choose View Slideshow.
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Page 33: Printing Photos
Printing photos Printing If you have a compatible printer To print photos from the Photo Picker connected to your Internet player, Choose Print Photos. The Photo picker you can print photos from your page appears. memory card, or from e-mail. To select a photo you want to print, choose the checkbox to the left of it. -
Page 34: Connecting Your Printer
Printing Connecting your printer You can print all sorts of things with a What you’ll need to print Connecting your printer to To connect your printer compatible printer connected to your your Internet player is easy. Turn off your Internet player and printer. •... -
Page 35: How To Print
How to print Improving your Using the Print panel, you can There are two ways to get to the Print panel on MSN TV. print most things you see on safety and • Press Print on your keyboard. your screen. •... - Page 36 Improve your safety and security online How MSN TV helps keep you safe In a car, you buckle your seat belt How MSN TV helps keep How MSN TV keeps you First and foremost, be careful about giving out personal for safety.
- Page 37 Safeguarding your information on Web sites Helping avoid junk mail Many Web sites give you the Junk e-mail, or spam, can be a big Some Here’s how to determine if a site is secure Be careful who you give your e-mail address to. chance to sign up for a newsletter, frustration, so you probably want to companies may sell your e-mail address, which can...
- Page 38 Protecting yourself in Messenger Helping keep kids safe online Messenger allows you to communi- You can limit a child’s access to the To block someone who has sent you To view or change restrictions for a user on your account cate with people around the world.
- Page 39 Using the keyboard and remote control...
- Page 40 The keyboard Here’s an overview of the keys Jump to Top Press to go to the top of a Web on your MSN TV keyboard. page that is too tall to fit on the screen Page Up/Page Down Press to move the page if it is too large to fit on the screen Home Press to go to the home page...
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Page 41: The Remote
The remote Here are the basic functions Back Press to return to the previous page of the remote control. Navigation buttons Press these keys to move the yellow box around the screen You can use these buttons to control your Internet player and MSN TV. - Page 42 Index Chat 35-39 Mail key 9-15, 77 ......... .
- Page 43 Print key 66, 77 Search 20-22 Web (continued) ........
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