User's Manual

Communication Category
In this category, you can configure the behavior of Windows in the network, personalize Internet Explorer and
Outlook Express and/or Office Outlook, speed up web surfing and protect your privacy by preventing certain
programs from automatically sending data about your surfing habits.
Here you will find detailed descriptions of your settings options, sorted by subcategory in the left side of the win-
dow:
Network
My Network Places
Here, you can configure a number of settings that affect the display of shares under My Network Places. Among
other things you can prevent your computer from being displayed in My Network Places of other computers
and that (using your password) all drives on your computer can be accessed, although you did not specify any
shares.
Advanced
In the Universal Plug & Play section you can turn off the Windows service for automatically detecting network
devices. This function is a potential security risk and should be disabled if you do not need it.
Under Quality of Service (QoS) service, you can prevent Windows from reserving part of your Internet con-
nection bandwidth for important packets. Disable Reserve bandwidth if you always want to have your full band-
width for surfing.
Passwords
Windows XP:
Saving your passwords means that you don't have to enter your password every time you dial into the Internet,
access protected shares, etc. However, hackers may be able to access and misuse these passwords. You can
therefore disable the automatic saving of passwords here.
Internet Time
Here you can set the clock on your computer to be synchronized regularly with an atomic clock over the Inter-
net, to ensure your computer always shows the correct time. The following option must be enabled first: Auto-
matically synchronize with an Internet time server.
The Available time servers section lists some popular reference clocks. If you know other servers, you can enter
their online addresses into the list by clicking Add.
Internet
Here you can determine how an existing dial-up connection should be handled when a user logs off, and you
can deactivate the integrated Windows Firewall.
Windows XP only:
By clicking on the Settings button you can also set various advanced options for your Internet connection.
Internet Explorer
Explorer Bars
Here you can set how the toolbars in Internet Explorer should behave. For example, you can have the search bar
always perform searches using Google™ and change settings for the Autocomplete feature in the address bar.
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