Preferences, To customize your settings, Add media icon to the taskbar – HP DVD100I User Manual

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Technical Support Solutions Guide 10/25/01

HP DLA 2.5

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Preferences

The Preferences feature allows you to customize settings that control how HP DLA
works.

To customize your settings

1.1.

Open HP DLA and click the

Preferences

button.

Set all appropriate option boxes:

Add Media Icon to the Taskbar

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Placing a check mark in the option box will place an icon in the Windows
taskbar when you start up your computer.

●

Removing the check mark will remove the icon from the taskbar.

Eject Button

Once a disc is inserted into the optical recorder, clicking the

Eject

button will open

the tray so you can remove the disc.

NOTE:

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The

Eject

button does not open the tray when there is no disc in the drive.

Manually open the recorder to insert the disc.

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HP DLA is enabled for one optical recorder at a time. Use the

Change

button

to switch between drives, if you have more than one.

Properties Button

The

Properties

feature shows you the following information about your optical disc:

■

Label: The name given to the disc.

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Type: The type of optical device being used to read the disc.

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Compression: The type of compression used to create the disc (i.e., None or
Software).

■

Used Space: The amount of information stored on your disc.

■

Free Space: The amount of unused space still available on your disc.

NOTE:

Information about Used Space and Free Space is displayed both
numerically (in KB or MB) and visually (blue shows used space, magenta
shows free space).

Explore Button

Clicking the

Explore

button allows you to view the contents of your optical disc via

the typical Windows Explorer screen. From there you can open, move, rename, and
delete files just as you would from any other drive. HP DLA will automatically write
the new information to your disc.

NOTE:

For users of Windows NT 4.0, 2000 Professional and XP: If you change the
drive letter of your optical disc recorder after installing HP DLA, you will
need to restart your computer before HP DLA will be able to recognize
discs in your optical drive.

Tips

The Taskbar Icon

If you right click on the media icon displayed in the taskbar, HP DLA will display a
menu that lets you select a drive to access the following shortcuts:

Explore

Explore -- Open a Windows Explorer screen displaying the contents of the disc (see

Explore

Button)

Format

Format -- Format the disc (see

Format

on page

)

Eject

Eject -- Eject the disc (see

Eject Button

on page

)

Make Compatible

Make Compatible -- Open the Make Compatible feature (see

Make Compatible

page

)

Properties

Properties -- View disc Properties (see

Properties Button

on page

)

Preferences

Preferences -- Open the Preferences feature (see

Preferences

on page

)

Drag and Drop Files

You can drag files and folders directly from Windows Explorer to your disc.

1.1.

Open Windows Explorer.

Caution Use care when writing compressed files to write-once media
such as CD-R and DVD-R. HP DLA is not able to determine in advance if a
compressed file will fit on your disc. If the disc fills up before HP DLA
finishes writing the file, you’ll have to start over with a new disc.

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