WINDOWS XP

TUESDAY 2:00 PM

LESSON 7

 

NON-RESPONDING PROGRAM

                Open several programs – word pad, paint, solitaire.

                Press the keys ctrl-alt and tap the delete key.

                You will get the task manager window.

                Make sure the applications tab is selected.

Pretend that the solitaire game is not responding, highlight it and then click on end task. This will close the program. If you were typing in word and have not saved for awhile. You will lose what you have not saved.

 

OTHER FEATURES OF TASK MANAGER

                Processes

                Performance

                Networking

                Users

                Quickly Rip CDs to Your Computer

 

 

You can use Windows Media Player 10 to rip (copy) songs from your CDs to your computer. After that, you can synchronize the songs to a portable music player, burn a mix CD for a party, or play the songs without the hassle of having to find the CD.

 

To rip music from a CD to your computer

Start Windows Media Player and connect to the Internet. By connecting to the Internet, media information about the songs being ripped will be displayed in the Library feature.

Insert an audio CD into the CD drive, and then click Rip.

All songs are selected to be ripped if you have not previously ripped them.

If there are any songs that you do not want to rip, clear the check box next to each, as shown in the following screen shot. You can use the check box at the top of the list to select or clear all check boxes.

 

Click Rip Music.

The first time you rip music, you are prompted to choose the format for the files being created. Click one of the following options:

Keep my current format settings. This option keeps your current file format and audio quality level settings and immediately starts ripping the songs you selected to your computer. By default, the Player uses the Windows Media Audio format, which optimizes the balance between file size and sound quality.

Change my current format settings. Select this option if you want to change the format, bit rate, storage folder, or other options.

After you click an option, click OK. (To change the format or audio quality settings later, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Rip Music tab.)

After the songs have been ripped, you can find and play them in your library.

 

 

Choosing a Format

By default, the Player uses the Windows Media Audio format, which optimizes the balance between file size and sound quality. You can also choose one of the following formats:

Windows Media Audio (variable bit rate), which can reduce the file size but may also take longer to rip.

Windows Media Audio Lossless, which provides the best audio quality but increases the file size.

MP3 format, new in Windows Media Player 10, which provides more flexibility when choosing a format.

 

COPY FILES & FOLDERS TO CD

 

As more and more computers come standard with a CD-ROM drive, burning your data onto a CD makes sense and is replacing floppy disks as the removable media people use to create backup copies and to share files with other people. For example, you might want to burn a CD to preserve the digital photographs you took on vacation instead of taking up precious space on your hard drive. Or you might want to keep a digital record of your house inventory on a CD and store that CD in a safety deposit box. The reasons for putting your data on a CD are endless.

Important  Microsoft Windows 2000 does not have built-in CD-burning capability. This procedure applies only to Microsoft Windows® XP, which provides basic CD-burning capability. For additional functionality, you can use CD-burning programs available from third-party software vendors. For more information on these products, visit the Windows XP Catalog, click the Software tab, point to Utilities, and then click CD-ROM.

Copy files and folders to a CD

1.                    Insert a blank, writable CD into the CD recorder. Use one of the following:

·                                          Recordable compact disc (CD-R)

·                                          Rewritable compact disc (CD-RW)

With rewritable CDs, you can copy data to and erase data from the CD multiple times.

2.                    Click Start, and then click My Computer.

3.                    Click the files or folders that you want to copy to the CD.

·                                          To select more than one file, hold down the CTRL key while you click the files you want. Then, under File and Folder Tasks, click Copy this file, Copy this folder, or Copy the selected items.

·                                          If the files are located in My Pictures, under Picture Tasks, click Copy to CD or Copy all items to CD, and then go to Step 5.

4.                    In the Copy Items dialog box, click the CD recording drive, and then click Copy.

5.                    In My Computer, double-click the CD recording drive. Windows displays a temporary area where the files are located before they are copied to the CD. Verify that the files and folders that you intend to copy to the CD appear under Files Ready to be Written to the CD.

6.                    Under CD Writing Tasks, click Write these files to CD. Windows displays the CD Writing Wizard. Follow the instructions in the wizard.

Notes

·                     Do not try to copy more files to the CD than it will hold. Check the CD packaging to see the capacity of each CD. For files too large to fit on a CD, you can copy files to a recordable DVD (DVD-R or DVD+R) or rewritable DVD (DVD-RW or DVD+RW). However, Windows XP does not support copying to a DVD, so you have to use DVD authoring software.

·                     Make sure that you have enough disk space on your hard disk to store the temporary files that are created during the CD-writing process. For a standard CD, Windows reserves up to 700 megabytes (MB) of the available free space. For a high-capacity CD, Windows reserves up to 1 gigabyte (GB) of the available free space.

·                     After you copy files or folders to the CD, you can view the CD to confirm that the files have been copied.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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