[. . . ] 51 Writing data to CD-R/RW media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Connecting a Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 To connect a printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 To connect a monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Just import your video clips and "shake" with the click of a mouse. Your personal movies are easy to create and fun to share with family and friends. (See the "MovieShaker" section for more information. ) 90 About the Software on Your Notebook Netscape Communicator® Netscape Communications Corporation Netscape Communicator is an all-in-one Internet tool that makes it easy to browse the Web, send Internet e-mail, chat, read newsgroups and compose great Web documents. Norton AntiVirusTM Symantec Corporation Norton AntiVirus is the world's leading anti-virus software. It's always working in the background to protect your PC, and now it automatically updates its virus definitions when you're connected to the Internet. It also scans files you download from the Web, as well as attachments you get through e-mail. OpenMG Jukebox software enables you to import digital audio files by downloading audio files from Electronic Music Distributino (EMD) services over digital networks, such as the Internet. You can record audio CDs onto your hard drive in a variety of formats. This image management software displays images from your hard drive, a Sony Digital Still Camera, or a Sony Mavica® Camera. The images appear in a convenient light-table format, so that you can easily view the contents of an entire folder. (See the "PictureGear" section for more information. ) PowerPanelTM Phoenix Technologies Ltd. VisualFlow is a state-of-the-art Sony multimedia browser designed specifically for Memory Stick media. It displays any still pictures, movie, or sound files stored in a Memory Stick media in a visually pleasing, artistic manner. VisualFlow not only plays a selected movie or sound file, but also enables playback of files by other applications like PictureGear, Memory Stick Slideshow, and Windows Explorer. WinDVD is a simple-to-use DVD player including all the features you would expect to find in a standard consumer DVD player, while also offering advanced display and navigation features such as zoom, pan, bookmark, and time search. 94 DVgate DVgate In order to improve the performance of your notebook's DVgateTM motion software, the hard disk drive on your notebook has been formatted with two partitions, C and D. The C partition holds 40 percent, and the D partition holds 60 percent of the entire drive capacity. This prevents large video captures from consuming the available space on your C partition. To maintain optimum performance of DVgate software, you should defragment or format the D partition regularly. To defragment a partition Before you defragment a partition, make sure you back up all files that you want to save. Click Programs, then Accessories, then System Tools, and then Disk Defragmenter. The Disk Defragmenter window appears. Select the drive you want to defragment from the list, and click the Defragment button. See Windows® Help for more information on defragmenting. DVgate plug-in for Adobe Premiere If your VAIO® notebook does not come with Adobe Premiere pre-installed and you subsequently purchase that software, you must install a plug-in to enable DVgateTM 2. 3 software. Installing the DVgate plug-in To install the plug-in for Adobe Premiere® 5. 1 and 5. 1LE, proceed as follows: Click Start in the Windows® taskbar and select Run. [. . . ] Follow the instructions on the screen. 146 VAIO Support Agent Quick Fix Wizard: Begin VAIO Support Agent Diagnostics dialog box To use Common Solutions Common Solutions offers automated, One-Click Fixes to repair common software problems. These solutions can integrate information such as knowledge base articles and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). You can run One-Click Fixes directly from VAIO Support Agent or from a Web browser. Double-click on the desired category to expand and view available SupportActions. VAIO Support Local Server (C:/program files/support. com. . . ) provides a list of SupportActions available on your notebook's hard disk drive. [. . . ]