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CDs, sync digital media files to a portable device, and shop for digital media content from online stores.
Windows Media Player 12 is a big bundle of buttons that reveals how much money you’ve spent on your computer. On expensive computers, Media Player rumbles like a home theater. On cheap ones, it sounds like a cell phone ring tone.Media Player plays CDs, DVDs, MP3s, and videos; organizes them all into a tidy library; and can copy and burn your CDs. But because Media Player still won’t work with either Apple’s iTunes or Microsoft’s own Zune, most folks stick with their music player’s own software, leaving Media Player unclicked.
Start Windows Media Player
To start Windows Media Player, click the Start button , click All Programs, and then click Windows Media Player.
Running Media Player for the first time
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time you open Windows 7’s Media Player, an opening screen asks how to |
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it’s privacy, storage, music store, and other settings: |
Recommended Settings: Designed for the impatient, this option loads Media Player with Microsoft’s chosen settings in place.media. Player sets itself up as the default player for all your music and video (robbing iTunes of that job, if you currently rely on iTunes or another media player). It sweeps the Internet to update your songs’ title information, and it tells Microsoft what you’re listening to and watching. Choose Express if you’re in a hurry; you can always customize the settings some other time.
Custom Settings: Aimed at the fiddlers and privacy conscious, this choice lets you finetune Media Player’s behavior. A series of screens lets you choose the types of music and video Media Player can play and how much of your listening habits should be sent to Microsoft. Choose this option only if you have time to wade through several minutes of boring option screens.
If you later want to customize any Media Player settings - either those chosen for you in Express setup or the ones you’ve chosen in Custom setup - click the Organize button and choose Options.
Controlling Your Now Playing Items
Media Player offers the same basic controls when playing any type of file, be it a song, video, CD, DVD, or photo slide show. Figure 15-4 shows Media Player open to its Now Playing window as it plays an album. The labels in the figure explain each button’s function. Or, rest your mouse pointer over an especially mysterious button, and Media Player displays a pop-up explanation.
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The buttons along the bottom work like those found on any DVD or CD player, letting you play, stop, rewind, fast-forward, and mute the current song or movie. For even more controls,
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right-click anywhere in the Now Playing window. A menu appears, offering to perform these common tasks:
Show List: Shows the playlist along the right side, handy for jumping directly to different songs.
Full Screen: Enlarges the window to fill the screen.
Shuffle: Plays songs randomly.
Repeat: Loops the same song.
Visualizations: Choose between showing the album cover, wavy lines, groovy spirals, dancing waves, or other freaky eye games.
Enhancements: Opens an equalizer, balance adjuster, playback speed, volume balancer, and other sound options.
Lyrics, Captions or Subtitles: Display these items, if they’re available, which come in handy when watching foreign films or practicing for Karaoke night.
Shop for More Music: Head to Microsoft’s WindowsMedia.com Web site to buy songs or albums from online stores.
Always Show Now Playing on Top: Keeps the window above your other windows on the desktop.
More Options: Brings up the Options page, where you can tweak Media Player’s habits when ripping CDs, stocking your Media Player Library and other tasks.
Help with Playback: Fetches the Help program to deal with headscratchers.
The Now Playing controls disappear from the screen when you haven’t moved the mouse for a while. To bring them back, move your mouse pointer over the Now Playing window.
To return to the Media Player Library, click the Library toggle icon in the window’s top-right corner.
What we can do with Windows Media Player
-Playing CDs
-Playing DVDs
-Playing Videos and TV Shows -Playing Music Files (MP3 and WMA) -Playing Internet Radio Stations -Creating, Saving, and Editing Playlists -Ripping (Copying) CDs to Your PC -Burning (Creating) Music CDs
Unfortunately, neither Media Player nor Windows 7 offers a Duplicate CD option. Instead, you must jump through the following five hoops to create a new CD with the same songs as the original CD:
1. Rip (copy) the music to your hard drive.
Before ripping your CD, change your burning quality to the highest quality: Click Organize, choose Options, click the Rip Music tab, and change the Format box to WAVE (Lossless). Click OK.
2.Insert a blank CD into your writable CD drive.
3.In Media Player’s Navigation Pane, click the Music category and choose Album to see your saved CDs.
4.Right-click the album in your library, choose Add To, and choose Burn List. If your Burn
List already had some listed music, click the Clear List button to clear it; then add your CD’s music to the Burn List.
5.Click the Start Burn button.
-Copying Songs to Your Portable Player
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SOUND RECORDER
You must have a sound card and speakers installed on your computer, to use the Sound Recorder program. If you want to record something, you will also need a microphone. You can record, mix, play, and edit sounds by using Sound Recorder. You can also link or insert sounds into another document.
Opening Sound Recorder
Click Start >> All Programs >> Accessories >> Sound Recorder Recording and Playing Sounds
step 1: Click the Record button, talk in your computer's microphone, and then click the Stop button. As you record your voice, a waveform should appear in the Sound Recorder window. step 2:Click the Play button, and listen to you recorded sound.
step 3: Save your recorded sound. From Sound Recorder main menu, select
File > Save. Sound Recorder saves the recorded sound as waveform (.wav) file.
VOLUME CONTROL
Most speakers have a volume control, but you can also control the overall level of sound on your PC.
Move the slider up or down to change the volume.
1.Click to open Volume Mixer. Or Start buttonControl PanelSound (Hardware and
Sound)
2.Move the sliders up or down to raise or lower the volume of your speakers, Windows sounds, or other sound devices or programs listed in the Volume Mixer.
To mute the volume, click the Mute button |
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CHAPTER 8
Installing a program
Fig 1: Double click on the saved install_flash_player.exe file to continue
Fig 2: Click on the CONTINUE button to continue
Fig 3: Click on the CLOSE button to continue
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To uninstall a program, or whole piece of software, first open the Control Panel window and then click on the PROGRAMS AND FEATURES link (Fig 4) to open the Programs and Features window (Fig 1.1).
Fig 4: Click on the PROGRAMS AND FEATURES link to continue
Uninstalling a program
Select a program to uninstall and then click on the UNINSTALL button to continue
When the Programs and Features window opens it will present you with a List of Installed Programs, which could have been installed by Windows 7 or by you. Meaning. Some of the programs could be Windows 7 specific programs and some could be programs you have downloaded/installed from the Internet or programs you have installed from a CD for example. Therefore, you must exercise caution before uninstalling a program (or piece of software) as you might not know what that program is, what it does, who installed it or what installed it.
In this example I am going to show you how to uninstall Adobe Reader 9.2.0, although the same uninstallation process applies to any of the programs in the List of Installed Programs. I have begun by clicking on the ADOBE READER 9.2 listing which then made the UNINSTALL and CHANGE buttons become available, and from there I clicked on the UNINSTALL button (also Fig 1.1 above). After doing this Windows 7 starts the actual uninstallation process. Are you sure you want to delete this program? If so, click on YES. Otherwise click on NO to cancel the uninstall.
Windows 7 is preparing to remove (delete) Adobe Reader 9.2.0
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Adobe Reader 9.2.0 is now being removed (deleted)
Adobe Reader 9.2.0 has been removed (deleted/uninstalled)
At any time throughout the uninstallation process you can click on a CANCEL button, if one is available, to Cancel the uninstallation process. However, in some cases, generally speaking, even if you click on a CANCEL button the uninstallation might have gone too far for it to be stopped, cancelled and/or reversed. So think very carefully before deciding to uninstall anything onto your Computer.
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Turn on And Turn off windows features
As we see in the figure below there are not any games. So we can turn on games in windows features.
Now we can see minesweeper in the game menu
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USER ACCOUNTS
When you set up Windows 7 for the first time, just before the activating it over the Internet, you are asked to give yourself a User Name. This is so that Windows 7 can create the master Administrator Account with your User Name on it. Once created, the master Administrator Account can never be deleted. It becomes a part of Windows 7 and more importantly your User (Windows 7 Membership) Account. As the administrator of Windows 7 you can create other User Accounts, for your Friends and Family for example, and be in full control of those user accounts.
To create user account first open control panel window and then click on the user account link, which will open user account window.
Fig 1: Click on the User Accounts control panel links to continue.
Fig 2 The User Accounts window - Click on the MANAGE ANOTHER ACCOUNT link to continue. To create a user account start by clicking on the MANAGE ANOTHER ACCOUNT link, above. This may make a UAC (User Account Control) security request appear, depending on your security settings and/or system set up. User Account Control (UAC) is a feature of Windows 7 that helps to prevent unauthorized changes to the computer, such as deleting a system file or creating a user account. When attempting to create a user account UAC automatically blocks you off with the security request below, because it wants to know if you are the one attempting to create a user account and not a piece of malicious software for example. In this case simply click on the CONTINUE button to continue.
Fig 1.2 Click on the CONTINUE button to continue
If you decide you no longer want to create a user account at this stage click on the CANCEL button, otherwise click on the CONTINUE button to bring up the following Manage Accounts window.
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Fig 1.3 Click on the CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT button to continue
Ignore the administrator and guest accounts and click on the CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT link (above) to bring up the following Create New Account window.
Fig 1.4 Click on the CREATE ACCOUNT button to continue
When the Create New Account window appears the first thing to do is give the account a User Name. This is done by typing a name (user name) into the USER NAME Edit Box. This is normally the name of a family member or staff member, but can be any name you want....within reason!
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