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Customizing your notebook
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Customizing your notebook
The following sections briefly describe how to change the main settings of your notebook. Among other
things, you will learn how to prepare your modem for use, how to use and customize the look of your Sony
software and utilities, etc.
Configuring your modem
Before you can start using your internal modem, or each time you use your modem while travelling, make
sure that the country of the active location defined in
Phone and Modem Options
matches the country
you are dialing from.
To configure your modem, proceed as follows:
1
Click
Start
and then again
Control Panel
.
2
Click
Switch to Classic View
on the left side and double-click
Phone and Modem Options
.
The
Phone and Modem Options
dialog box appears.
3
Make sure the
Dialing Rules
tab is selected.
4
Click the
New
button if you wish to configure your modem or the
Edit
button to change the current
configuration.
5
Check the country/region settings, and make sure it matches the place you are dialing from.
6
If you modified your location settings, click
Apply
, and then click
OK
.
Before applying new country settings, make sure your phone line is disconnected from your VAIO notebook.
