Chapter 10

Configuring Faxes, Media

Applications, and the Windows

Sidebar

Windows Media Center is included in the Home Premium and Ultimate editions of Windows

Vista. With the appropriate hardware, Media Center can allow a personal computer to replace

your DVD player, video recorder, and audio CD players. All of your videos, DVDs, movies, TV,

recorded television, photos, and music can be played through a single device that connects to

your high definition television. Although it cannot be used to record television, Windows

Media Player is available in all editions of Windows Vista and can be used to consolidate your

music collection, adding it to a single library that all other compatible devices on the local area

network can access.

Just as Windows Media Center eliminates the need for DVD players and videocassette record-

ers, Windows Fax and Scan removes the need for the fax machine. Fax and Scan is available

with the Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista. Fax and Scan allows

documents to be faxed directly from Windows applications or scanned using an optical scan-

ning device from hard copy to the computer and sent as a traditional fax. Synchronized with

a mobile phone that supports modem functionality, the mobile worker can receive and send

faxes anywhere that cell phone reception is available.

Exam objectives in this chapter:

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Configure and troubleshoot media applications.

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Configure Windows Fax and Scan.

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Configure Windows Sidebar.

Lessons in this chapter:

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Lesson 1: Configuring and Troubleshooting Media Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

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Lesson 2: Configuring Windows Fax and Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

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Lesson 3: Configuring Windows Sidebar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

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