User manual GATEWAY E-100M

[. . . ] . 74 ii www. gateway. com Contents Windows Media Player advanced features . 104 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 110 111 113 114 116 116 117 118 118 119 119 120 120 121 122 123 123 123 124 125 126 126 128 128 128 128 129 129 129 Chapter 11: Maintaining Your Notebook . 155 v Contents www. gateway. com vi CHAPTER 1 Getting Help · Gateway Web site · Help and Support · BigFix · Online help 1 CHAPTER 1: Getting Help www. gateway. com Thank you for purchasing our notebook! You have made an excellent decision choosing Gateway. We are sure that you will be pleased with the outstanding quality, reliability, and performance of your new notebook. [. . . ] If you successfully connected to the network, go to "Testing your network" on page 88. If you can see the network name in the Choose a wireless network list but you cannot connect to it, your network is using security. You will need to modify the security settings for the network in your notebook. If your network does not appear in the Choose a wireless network list, your network is not broadcasting its SSID. This is not an error and is one way to add security to your wireless network. You will need to manually add the network to your notebook. 87 CHAPTER 8: Wireless Networking www. gateway. com Testing your network Now that your home network is set up, log onto your notebook and access a favorite Internet Web site. If you are unable to connect to the Internet: Run the New Connection Wizard Make sure that your access point is plugged in and compare the status lights on the front of the access point with the patterns described in the access point documentation Temporarily turn off any firewall software on your notebook Turn off all of the devices, then turn them back on Contact your Internet service provider Sharing resources With a network, you can share your Internet connection, drives, and printers. Sharing drives and printers Important To share a printer among the network computers, each computer must have the shared printer's drivers installed. Follow the instructions included with your printer to install the printer drivers on each computer. With a network, you can share drives (for example hard drives and DVD drives) and printers among the computers connected to the network. After the drives and printers on each network computer are shared, you can access them as though they were attached directly to your computer. Then you can: View a network drive Open and copy files stored on other network computers Print documents on network printers Sharing drives or folders If you want to share a drive or folder, use the following instructions. To share drives or folders: 1 In My Computer or Windows Explorer, right-click the drive or folder that you want to share, then click Sharing and Security. If you share a drive, the entire contents of that drive will be available to everyone on your network. If you share a folder, only the contents of that folder will be available to everyone on the network. 88 www. gateway. com Sharing resources 2 Click the Sharing tab. 3 If this is the first time you have shared a drive or folder, click Network Setup Wizard to enable remote access, then follow the on-screen instructions. - OR If you have previously enabled remote file access and you want to share a drive or folder with others on the network (network sharing), click to select the Share this folder on the network check box, type a shared name in the Shared name box. To let other users have full permissions to read and write to the shared drive or folder, click to select the Allow network users to change my files check box. 4 Click OK. Un-sharing drives and folders To un-share drives or folders: 1 In My Computer or Windows Explorer, right-click the drive or folder that you want to un-share, then click Sharing and Security. 2 Make sure that the Share this folder on the network check box is not selected. 3 Click OK. 89 CHAPTER 8: Wireless Networking www. gateway. com Sharing printers To share printers: 1 Click Start, then click Control Panel. If your Control Panel is in Category View, click Printers and Other Hardware. 2 Click/Double-click the Printers and Faxes icon. The Printers and Faxes window opens. 3 Right-click the name of the printer you want to share, then click Sharing. 5 Click OK. Using the network After the drives and printers on each network computer are shared, you can: View shared drives and folders Map a network drive Open and copy files stored on other network computers Print documents on network printers Viewing shared drives and folders Help and Support For more information about workgroups, click Start, then click Help and Support. Type the keyword workgroups in the Search box, then click the arrow. To view shared drives and folders: 1 Click Start, then click My Network Places. The My Network Places window opens. 2 Click/Double-click Entire Network. If you do not see the contents of the network after you double-click Entire Network, click entire contents. 3 Double-click Microsoft Windows Network. The names of each of the computers in your workgroup are listed. 5 Double-click the name of the computer containing the drive or folder you want to view. All shared drives and folders are listed. Mapping a network drive After a drive or folder on one computer is mapped as a drive on another computer, the contents of the drive or folder can be accessed as if the drive were attached directly to the computer. 90 www. gateway. com Using the network For example, the My Documents folder on computer 1 is mapped as the Z drive on computer 2. [. . . ] If you use an extension cord with this notebook, make sure that the total ampere rating on the products plugged into the extension cord does not exceed the extension cord ampere rating. If your notebook is fitted with a TV Tuner, cable, or satellite receiver card, make sure that the antenna or cable system is electrically grounded to provide some protection against voltage surges and buildup of static charges. Care during use Do not walk on the power cord or allow anything to rest on it. The best way to avoid spills is to avoid eating and drinking near your notebook. There is a danger of explosion if the CMOS battery is replaced incorrectly. [. . . ]