User Guide After you're set up, use this guide to explore MSN TV. What's in this guide 2 Welcome to MSN TV! Your MSN TV home page The Using MSN TV center Getting help on MSN TV 23 Favorites 7 Mail Saving favorite Web sites Organizing your favorites Creating shortcuts to your favorites 41 Settings and Account MSN TV centers Reading e-mail Writing e-mail Saving and organizing your e-mail Opening and viewing e-mail attachments Using the Address book Dealing with junk mail 29 Messenger Chat Adding users to your MSN TV account Setting user restrictions for a child Making Web pages easier to read Viewing your MSN TV billing information Customizing News, Money, and Weather 63 67 Printing Connecting your printer How to print Exchanging instant messages Starting instant message conversations Blocking people in Messenger Choosing a chat room Creating a chat nickname Inside a chat room 47 51 57 Improving your safety and security online Using the keyboard and remote control Index 17 Browsing the Web and using Search Going to a Web site you know Finding information with Search Narrowing down a search Searching for a phrase or name 35 Music and video Photos Finding audio and video content online Using the Media Player controls Receiving and viewing photos in e-mail Viewing and sending your own photos Printing photos How MSN TV helps keep you safe Safeguarding your information on Web sites Helping avoid junk mail Protecting yourself in Messenger Helping keep kids safe online 75 80 Welcome to MSN TV! By now, you've connected your Internet player and created your MSN TV account; you're probably eager to start exploring. 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. In this guide, you'll explore the basics of using the MSN TV service. 2 3 Your MSN TV home page No matter where you go on MSN TV or on the Internet, if you want to get back to the home page, just press Home on your keyboard or remote control. Toward the bottom of the home page, you'll see links to Mail, Favorites, Messenger, Photos, Chat, and more. Use the left and right arrows on your keyboard or remote to see more links. The Using MSN TV center This is a great place to start your MSN TV adventure. Using MSN TV includes the MSN TV newsletter, Tips, Things to Try, and links to more information that will help you make the most of your MSN TV experience. The MSN TV newsletter includes articles, MSN TV news, and other information to help you make the most of your time online. Here are some of the other things you'll find in Using MSN TV: After you sign in to MSN TV, you see the home page. The home page is like downtown MSN TV: from there, you can get just about anywhere. Take a few minutes to get acquainted with your home page. There's a lot to explore! In the center of the home page, you'll see the latest news and weather, as well as tips to help you make the most of your MSN TV experience. You can also search the Web from there by typing words or a Web address into the search box. At the top of the home page are some important tools to help you learn more about MSN TV. Let's first take a look at Using MSN TV. Things to Try, which has links to a wide variety of activities, from buying flowers online to keeping up with UFO news. MSN TV Tips that help you learn more about MSN TV. In Tips, you'll find instructions for many of the activities you can do on MSN TV, such as checking your account balance, finding others' e-mail addresses, and reducing unwanted e-mail, or spam. Try Its that let you do the things you've just learned about. 4 5 Getting help on MSN TV Looking for a handy reference showing you the basics of MSN TV? Already have a good grasp of the service's features and ready to learn more? Help can, well, help. In the main Help index, the topics are split into categories. This makes it easier to find what you're looking for. To get help while using a feature like Mail, choose the Help link on any page in that feature. To browse all of the Help topics available, press the Home key on your keyboard or remote, and then choose the Help link on the home page. Mail For example, if you're in Mail and choose Help, you'll get help about Mail. If you're in Chat and choose Help, you'll get help about Chat. Remember, if you want to see all of the Help topics, choose the Help link on the home page. 6 7 Mail You can communicate with people all over the world by using e-mail. You can keep in touch with friends and family, and even exchange your photos with e-mail. This section covers: · · · · Reading and writing e-mail Using the Address book Limiting junk e-mail Saving and organizing e-mail Reading e-mail The parts of an e-mail address Here are some example e-mail addresses: An e-mail address, just like a street address, has a few different parts that always appear in the same order. Name_123@hotmail.com myname@msn.com example@passport.com myname@msn.com Your Inbox is the starting point for everything you do in Mail, from reading and writing an e-mail to controlling unwanted e-mail, or spam. E-mail messages are delivered to your Inbox. When you have unread e-mail, the blue light on the front of your Internet player will illuminate, and the status bar at the bottom or your screen will show how many unread messages you have. To read your e-mail 1 2 3 Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the keyboard or by choosing Mail on the home page. Choose the e-mail message that you want to read. Your Inbox opens. To learn more about Mail, choose Help from anywhere in Mail. This is the online or e-mail name of the person The "at" symbol (@) connects these two parts. You can add up to 10 additional users to your MSN TV account, each with their own e-mail address. To learn more, see Adding users to your MSN TV account on page 43. This part is called the domain. It may be the name of the e-mail service that they use or it may be the name of the company they work for. The e-mail will open in a new page. You don't have to read the entire message right away. It will stay in your Inbox until you delete it or move it to a folder. To read the next e-mail in your Inbox, choose Next at the top of the page. To read the previous e-mail, choose Previous. 8 9 Writing e-mail Writing an e-mail is as easy as writing a letter. Your messages just get there a lot faster. You can write e-mail to anyone who has an e-mail address, whether they're across town or around the world. To write an e-mail message Saving and organizing your e-mail 1 2 3 4 5 6 Choose Write e-mail from anywhere in Mail. The Write e-mail page appears. Type an e-mail address in the To line. Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the keyboard or by choosing Mail on the home page. On MSN TV, you can save e-mail messages you want to keep, and you can create folders to help you organize your saved e-mail. To create a folder If you want to send a copy of your e-mail to someone else at the same time, you can type their address on the Cc line (Cc stands for carbon copy). If you want to save a copy of the e-mail that you're sending, check Save a copy of this e-mail to my Sent messages folder. Type the subject of your e-mail on the Subject line. For example, you might want to create a folder to store e-mail from your family, another to store e-mail from your friends, and another to store e-mail from companies. To do this, first you create a folder, and then you move e-mail to that folder. You can move e-mail as you read it from the Read e-mail page or move e-mail directly from the Inbox. 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 Press the Mail key on your keyboard. Choose Folders, and then choose Add a Folder. Choose Add. Type the name of the folder that you want to create. To save an e-mail message you're reading Choose Move to Folder. Choose Move. Choose the folder that you want to move the e-mail message to. You can also create a new folder. Type your message. When you're finished, choose Send. To save an e-mail message from your Inbox Choose Move to Folder. Choose Move. Choose the checkbox next to the message. A checkmark appears. Choose the folder that you want to move the e-mail message to. You can also create a new folder. 10 11 Opening and viewing e-mail attachments Your friends may send documents and photos along with their e-mails. These are known as attachments. When you get an e-mail with a document or photo attached to it, you see a paper clip next to the e-mail in your Inbox. To open and view a document you receive in e-mail Using the Address book You don't have to remember the e-mail addresses of the people you write to. You can just save their addresses in your Address book. To add an e-mail address from an e-mail you receive 1 2 3 1 2 3 Choose the e-mail with the document to open it. Choose the attachment. The document opens in a new page. To magnify something in the attachment, choose Zoom in. To zoom out, choose Zoom out. 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 Open an e-mail message sent from the e-mail address you want to add. Choose Save Address on the Read a message page. Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the keyboard or by choosing Mail on the home page. Choose Done when you're ready to go back to the e-mail message. There are various ways to do this. You can add an address when you read an e-mail, or your can add an address directly to the Address book. To add an e-mail address directly to the Address book To open and view photos you receive in e-mail Choose Address book, and then choose Add a Contact. On the Save address page, type a Quickname for the person that you're adding. This can be a nickname, for example. Type the first and last name of the person that you're adding. Choose Add. Type the e-mail address of the person that you're adding. Choose the e-mail with the photos to open it. The e-mail opens in a new page. Below the date, you see information about the pictures that are attached. Choose this information to open the photos. Photos viewer opens. Here, you can print, view a slideshow, or see photo thumbnails. Choose Done when you're ready to go back to the e-mail message. Tip After you add someone to your Address book, you can type their Quickname ­ rather than their full e-mail address ­ in the To line of an e-mail you write. 12 13 Dealing with junk mail You probably already get junk mail letters delivered by the post office. Now that you're on the Internet, you may also get junk e-mail, often called spam. The people who send these unwanted messages are called spammers. Some unscrupulous companies may share e-mail addresses with spammers, or a spammer may send thousands of e-mails to e-mail addresses at random, hoping that some of them will reach valid accounts. To set up a Junk mail filter 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the keyboard or by choosing Mail on the home page. Choose Settings. Choose Junk mail filter. To block an e-mail address 1 2 3 4 5 · · Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the keyboard or by choosing Mail on the home page. Choose Settings. Choose Blocked senders. Choose Add. You can set up a junk mail filter to help reduce the amount of junk mail you see in your Inbox. You can also decide how quickly junk mail is deleted from the Junk mail folder, which MSN TV automatically creates when you set up an account. There are other ways to handle junk mail. If everything you get from a particular person is junk mail, you can block all mail from their address. Of course, you can always simply delete unwanted mail. Choose the level of protection you want, and then choose Save Changes. Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the keyboard or by choosing Mail on the home page. Choose Settings. Choose Junk mail deletion. Choose Add New, and type the e-mail address that you want to add to your blocked senders list. To choose how quickly junk mail is deleted Deleting e-mail To delete an e-mail after you read it, choose Delete on the Read e-mail page. Choose the setting you want, and then choose Save Changes. To delete e-mail messages from your Inbox, check the boxes next to the e-mail you want to delete, and then choose Delete. 14 15 Browsing the Web and using Search 16 17 Browsing the Web and using Search Imagine a library bigger than any building can hold, a world-wide shopping mall open 24 hours a day, a global newsroom, and an international town square where anyone can make their views known. Combine these things and more and you have the World Wide Web. You can browse and explore the Web on your own or you can use Search to find what you want. It's up to you. The Web is made of millions of Web sites. Each site, like a book, can have hundreds of Web pages. Going to a Web site you know Many organizations now put their Web address in their ads or on business cards. If you know the Web address of a site that you want to visit, you can easily get to it. ...