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Always follow
the procedures outlined below to turn your system on and
off! Incorrect power on and power off procedures can
cause serious system malfunctions.
To Turn the System On,
press the Power button on the printer
first, then turn one the monitor b
pressing the power button in the lower right hand corner,
finally turn on the CPU by pressing and
releasing the large oval shaped button on the case to the
right of the floppy drive.
To Turn the System Off, close
all open programs then click the Start
button, select Shut Down, be sure the
Shut Down option is selected in the menu that appears and
click Ok. The CPU will power down
automatically. Finally, press the power buttons on the
monitor and printer to shut them off.
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Double click the Dial Up
Networking icon similar to the one shown above in
the Internet folder on your desktop. (The name of
the icon may vary, depending upon who your ISP
is, BICnet, Ultranet, Net1Plus etc...)
Be sure your username, password
and number to dial are correct in the Connect To
dialogue box that appears. These items should be
automatically filled in, if they are not or have
incorrect information in them type in your
correct username and password.
Click the Connect
button to dial into your ISP's (Internet Service
Providers) server. You will hear a series of
tones and a dialogue box will appear indicating
the status of the connection. In a few moment the
dialogue box should disappear and a small icon
showing two computers should appear in the lower
right hand corner of your screen on the Windows
95 or 98 Taskbar.
Tip: moving your mouse cursor over the small icon
of the two computers on the Task Bar will cause a
box to pop up and display the speed at which you
initially connected to your ISP's server. The
higher the number, the faster your connection.
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You must be connected to the Internet in
order to check your e-mail. Follow the procedure above to
connect. Once you have established a connection simply
double click your e-mail icon in the Internet folder
located on your desktop. Eudora Light should load and
your username and password should be automatically
entered. Eudora will then proceed to login and download
any new messages from the server to your computer. If you
have new mail a dialogue box will appear indicating this.
Click Ok.
To read new messages double click on the
message you wish to read in the in box. Once you have
read the message you may print it by clicking the File
menu then click Print. Close the message
when you are finished reading it. Messages will remain in
the Inbox and may be read and printed again until they
are deleted. It is a good idea to purge old unwanted
messages to free up space on your hard drive.
When you are finished close Eudora by
clicking the File menu, then click Exit.
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You must be connected to the Internet in
order to send e-mail, however when composing a large
message you may wish to remain off-line until you are
ready to send it. The reason for this is that when your
Internet connection remains idle (no information is being
sent or received) for several minutes, your connection
may be lost. This is a safeguard to prevent people from
accidentally forgetting to disconnect from the Internet
when they are done sending e-mail or browsing the web. It
also frees up the line on the ISP's server for another
user to log in to. You may also encounter this time out
disconnect when you are browsing the Internet and sit
idle on one page for a long period of time without
clicking on any new links.
Eudora Light is the default e-mail
program on the system. To send an e-mail message start
Eudora Light by double clicking on your e-mail icon in
the Internet folder on the desktop. To compose a new
message click the Message menu at the
top of the screen and select New Message.
A new e-mail document appears. Enter the persons e-mail
address in the To: field of the message
header. Your return address should already be present in
the From: field. Enter a subject in the Subject:
field. Use the TAB key to move between the fields. Press
the TAB key a few more times to place the cursor in the
body area of the e-mail message. Type your message.
When you are finished composing your
e-mail message click the Send button to send your
message. If you composed your message off-line connect to
the Internet by following the procedure above before
clicking the Send button. You can review your sent
messages by double clicking on the message in your
Outbox.
When you are finished close Eudora by
clicking the File menu, then click Exit.
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To Browse the Internet you
must be connected to the Internet. Follow the procedure
above to connect. Once you have established a connection
simply double click the Internet Explorer 4.0 icon in the
Internet folder on your desktop. This will launch your
web browser. A web browser allows you to view HTML
(Hypertext Markup Language) files and navigate to
different websites by entering in a specific URL (Uniform
Resource Locator), a fancy name for a website address
such as www.usatoday.com.
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Close all open Internet
applications such as the Eudora E-Mail program or the
Internet Explorer web browser before disconnecting from
the Internet. When you are connected to the Internet you
will see a small icon with two computers located on the
bottom right of the Windows 95 or 98 Taskbar (the gray
bar that runs along the bottom of the screen with the
Start button on it.) Whenever this icon is present you
are connected to the Internet and your phone line will be
busy. When you are done browsing the Internet and
checking your e-mail you must disconnect from your ISP's
server. To disconnect simply double click on the small
icon with the two computers showing on the Taskbar. A
small dialogue box will appear indicating the status of
your connection. Click the Disconnect button in this
dialogue box to hang up from the Internet and free up
your phone line. In a few seconds you will here a small
click and the dialogue box and icon on the Taskbar will
disappear.
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Generally you can fax any document you
create on the computer as long as you can print from the
program you used to create it. Faxing is similar to
printing. The fax modem acts as a printer, but instead of
directing the output to your printer the information is
sent to the fax modem. When this occurs a dialogue box
will pop up requesting the phone number and other
information regarding where you wish to send the fax. You
can even save information about fax recipients in a phone
book so that the information does not need to be
re-entered the next time you fax to the same person.
Below is the general procedure for faxing
a word processing document:
Start your Word Processor by
double clicking its icon.
Create a new document or open an
existing one that you wish to fax.
When you are finished editing the
document and are ready to fax it click once on
the File menu then select Print.
The Print dialogue box appears. Click on the drop
down arrow next to the printer name as shown in
the diagram below and click the Quick
Link Message Center III printer driver
to select it.
Click the Ok
button
The Send Fax dialogue box
appears. Enter the name and phone number of the
person you wish to send the fax to and any other
pertinent information. At this point you may add
the recipients information to your phone book by
clicking the Add to Phone Book
button. When you are ready click the Send
Fax button to send the fax.
Remember to switch the printer
driver back to the real printer the next time you
print a document. It is good practice to always
check the printer driver selected before clicking
the Ok button in the Print dialogue box.
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A special folder exists on
your hard drive called My Documents.
This is where you should save any documents you create
with the system. You can use Windows Explorer (the
Windows 95 and 98 equivalent of File Manager) to create
additional subfolders of the My Documents folder to
further organize your work. This method of saving and
organizing your documents is extremely important. It
allows your computer to operate more efficiently, helps
you keep track of your work, and makes backing up and
restoring your data much easier in the event of a hard
drive failure.
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Windows Explorer is an essential tool for
managing the documents and folders on your hard drive.
Not to be confused with Internet Explorer the web
browser, Windows Explorer is used to create new folders
to store your data in, back up your data, and to copy,
move, rename and delete files and folders on your hard
drive. Learning to use this file management tool
effectively gives you the ability to organize your
documents in a way that makes them easy to find when you
need them. To run Windows Explorer double click its icon
on the Windows 95 or 98 desktop, or click Start,
point to Programs, click on Windows
Explorer.
Insert floppy disks in the floppy drive
with the silver protective sleeve facing in and the label
side up. The round opening in the center of the diskette
should be face down. Never
insert or remove a floppy disk from the drive when the
green indicator light is lit! Damage to the floppy drive
may occur.
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To open the CD-ROM drive drawer press the
rectangular button on the bottom right hand corner of the
CD-ROM drive. The drawer will eject. Always place CD-ROM
discs in the drive with the printed side up and the blank
side down. To close the drawer press the rectangular
button you used to open the drawer again. Do not push in on the drawer
itself to close it! Damage
to the ejecting mechanism may occur if the drawer is
closed in this manner. Once the drawer is closed with
your CD-ROM disc in it, wait several seconds for the
light to stop flashing before trying to access the disc.
Many program discs will automatically
launch setup program that will install the software. If a
music disc is inserted in the drive and your system is
equipped with a sound card and speakers the disc should
begin playing automatically several seconds after the
drawer is closed.
To remove your CD-ROM disc from the
drive, press the eject button on the CD-ROM drive, remove
your disc, press the eject button again to close the
drawer.
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