RCA RM4100 User Manual
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
7 Mail
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
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
23 Favorites
Saving favorite Web sites
Organizing your favorites
Creating shortcuts to your favorites
29 Messenger
Exchanging instant messages
Starting instant message conversations
Blocking people in Messenger
35 Chat
Choosing a chat room
Creating a chat nickname
Inside a chat room
41 Settings and Account
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
47 MSN TV centers
Customizing News, Money, and Weather
51 Music and video
Finding audio and video content online
Using the Media Player controls
57 Photos
Receiving and viewing photos in e-mail
Viewing and sending your own photos
Printing photos
63 Printing
Connecting your printer
How to print
67 Improving your safety
and security online
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 Using the keyboard
and remote control
80 Index
By now, you’ve connected your Internet
player and created your MSN TV account;
Welcome
to MSN TV!
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.
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Your MSN TV home page The Using MSN TV center
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Mail
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Mail Reading e-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
• Saving and organizing e-mail
• Using the Address book
• Limiting junk e-mail
To learn more about Mail, choose Help from
anywhere in Mail.
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.
The parts of an e-mail address
Here are some example e-mail addresses:
Name_123@hotmail.com
myname@msn.com
example@passport.com
An e-mail address, just like a street address, has a few
different parts that always appear in the same order.
myname@msn.com
This is the online or e-mail
name of the person
The “at” symbol (@)
connects these two parts.
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.
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
Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the
1
keyboard or by choosing Mail on the home page.
Your Inbox opens.
Choose the e-mail message that you want to read.
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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
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at the top of the page. To read the previous e-mail,
choose Previous.
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Writing e-mail Saving and organizing your 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
Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the
1
keyboard or by choosing Mail on the home page.
Choose Write e-mail from anywhere in Mail.
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The Write e-mail page appears.
Type an e-mail address in the To line.
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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).
Type the subject of your e-mail on the Subject line.
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If you want to save a copy of the e-mail that
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you’re sending, check Save a copy of this e-mail
to my Sent messages folder.
Type your message. When you’re finished, choose Send.
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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.
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.
To create a folder
Press the Mail key on your keyboard.
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Choose Folders, and then choose Add a Folder.
2
Type the name of the folder that you want to create.
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Choose Add.
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To save an e-mail message you’re reading
Choose Move to Folder.
1
Choose the folder that you want to move the e-mail
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message to. You can also create a new folder.
Choose Move.
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To save an e-mail message from your Inbox
Choose the checkbox next to the message.
1
A checkmark appears.
Choose Move to Folder.
2
Choose the folder that you want to move the e-mail
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message to. You can also create a new folder.
Choose Move.
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Opening and viewing e-mail attachments Using the Address book
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
Choose the e-mail with the document to open it.
1
Choose the attachment.
2
The document opens in a new page. To magnify
something in the attachment, choose Zoom in.
To zoom out, choose Zoom out.
Choose Done when you’re ready to go
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back to the e-mail message.
To open and view photos you receive in e-mail
Choose the e-mail with the photos to open it.
1
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.
2
Photos viewer opens. Here, you can print,
view a slideshow, or see photo thumbnails.
Choose Done when you’re ready to go
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back to the e-mail message.
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.
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 from an e-mail you receive
Open an e-mail message sent from the e-mail
1
address you want to add.
Choose Save Address on the Read a message page.
2
To add an e-mail address directly to the Address book
Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the keyboard
1
or by choosing Mail on the home page.
Choose Address book, and then choose Add a Contact.
2
On the Save address page, type a Quickname for the
3
person that you’re adding. This can be a nickname,
for example.
Type the first and last name of the person
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that you're adding.
Type the e-mail address of the person that
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you’re adding.
Choose Add.
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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.
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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.
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.
To set up a Junk mail filter
Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the
1
keyboard or by choosing Mail on the home page.
Choose Settings.
2
Choose Junk mail filter.
3
Choose the level of protection you want, and then
4
choose Save Changes.
To choose how quickly junk mail is deleted
Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the
1
keyboard or by choosing Mail on the home page.
Choose Settings.
2
Choose Junk mail deletion.
3
Choose the setting you want, and then choose
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Save Changes.
To block an e-mail address
Go to Mail by pressing the Mail key on the
1
keyboard or by choosing Mail on the home page.
Choose Settings.
2
Choose Blocked senders.
3
Choose Add New, and type the e-mail address that
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you want to add to your blocked senders list.
Choose Add.
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Deleting e-mail
• To delete an e-mail after you read it, choose Delete
on the Read e-mail page.
• To delete e-mail messages from your Inbox, check
the boxes next to the e-mail you want to delete, and
then choose Delete.
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Browsing
the Web
and using
Search
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Browsing the Web and using Search Going to a Web site you know
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.
What makes the Web so much fun is the way that many
of these pages are linked together. These links take you
to different pages. Most of the time, links appear as
underlined or differently colored text that you can choose.
Often, links appear as buttons on a Web page. You can
easily spend hours browsing linked pages. This is also
known as surfing the Web.
In this section, you’ll learn about browsing and searching
the Web. To get more information on browsing or
searching, choose Help on the home page.
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.
There are three ways to go to a Web site you know
• On the MSN TV home page, type the Web site
address in the text box near the bottom of the page.
• In Search, type the Web site address into the
text box on the Search page.
• When you’re anywhere on MSN TV, press the
Type www key on the keyboard, and then type
the Web site address in the text box that appears.
This is usually the handiest way.
For example, here’s a Web address. Press the Type www
key on your keyboard, type the address in the text box
that appears, and then choose Go.
http://www.ancestry.com
Tip When using Type www, you only have to type the
part of the address that comes after www. MSN TV will
take care of the rest.
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Finding information with Search Narrowing down a search
There are millions of Web pages. To
find exactly what you want, you have
to be specific. You do the same thing
when you call Directory Assistance
for a phone number.
If you called Directory Assistance and asked for Joe’s phone
number, they’d ask you for more information in order to
narrow it down. You’d need Joe’s last name, and at least
the city where he lived. The more information you had,
the better they’d be able to help you. Searching the Web
works much the same way.
There are four ways to search on MSN TV
• On the MSN TV home page, type the words
or phrase you want to search for in the text box
near the bottom of the page.
• In Search, type the words or phrase you want to
search for in the text box there.
• On the search results page, type the words or
phrase you want to search for in the text box
at the bottom of the page.
• When you’re anywhere on MSN TV, press the
Search key on the keyboard. This will take you
to the Search page.
If your search gets too many
results, use more keywords to
help narrow it down.
Try this search yourself: look for information about
the first crew to land a spacecraft on the moon. In this
exercise, you’ll learn how to narrow down a search.
Type moon in the Search box on the home page,
1
and then choose Go.
You’ll get lots of listings on the results page. Since moon
is a fairly common word, it’s found on thousands of
Web pages. You’ll see descriptions of some of these
pages on the results page.
To narrow down your search, add some more
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information.
Since you know you want to find information on the
crew that went to the moon, type crew and moon
in the text box. You can type this in the box at the
bottom of the results page. You’ll still get many listings
on the results page.
Make your search even more specific. Type NASA
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and crew and moon in the text box.
This time, you get more relevant results.
If you scroll down the results page, you should be
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able to find information about the Apollo team. To
go to a particular Web page, choose it from the list.
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Searching for a phrase or name
Often, you may want to look up
a phrase or a complete name. To
make sure Search looks for the
exact phrase or the exact name,
put quotes around it.
“New York State”
”stepping stones”
“interest rates”
When you put a phrase or a complete name in quotes,
you tell Search to look only for results that have those
exact words in that order, and not results that are close to
it, or that have only a few of the same words, or have the
words in a different order.
Here are some other searches you might want to try
• Look up the name of your high school to see if you
can find information on your former schoolmates or
to find out how the school has changed since you
were a student there. (You may need to include both
the name of the school and the city.)
• Try to find a few different recipes for your favorite
dish or dessert.
• Search for the town or city you currently live in to see
if you can find information on its history.
Favorites
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Favorites Saving favorite Web sites
When you find a Web page you like
and know you’ll want to return to, you
can save it as a favorite so you can
get back to it quickly, without having
to search or browse for it again.
For example, you might want to save as favorites the
Web sites for your local library, a nearby national park,
or even a resort you dream of visiting.
You can then access your favorite sites by choosing
Favorites from the bottom of the home page, or by using
the Favorites keys on your keyboard.
You can also set up shortcuts to three of your favorite
Web sites so you can return to them simply by pressing
a key on your keyboard.
In this section, you’ll learn how to save and
organize favorites.
To learn more about saving Web pages as favorites, or
other ways you can organize your favorites, choose Help
from any page in Favorites.
Saving a Web page as a
favorite is easy.
You’ll probably find that you visit some sites regularly.
You may want to keep current on news from your home
town, or you might want to check the weather on the
golf course every morning.
To save a Web page as a favorite
Go to the Web site you want to save as a favorite.
1
Press Save Fav on your keyboard
2
On the panel that appears, choose Save.
3
You see a confirmation that the
favorite has been saved.
To see your list of favorites at any time, press Favs
on the keyboard.
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