Windows DVD Maker Home Premium • Professional • Enterprise • Ultimate
DVD Maker can turn your camcorder (or digital-camera) masterpieces into standard DVDs that play on the TVs of your adoring public. For details on DVD Maker, download the free PDF appendix, “Movie Maker & DVD Maker,” from this book’s “Missing CD” at www.missingmanuals.com.
Windows Fax and Scan All Versions
See Chapter 17 for full details on sending and receiving faxes from your PC—and on scanning documents using a scanner.
Windows Media Center Home Premium • Professional • Enterprise • Ultimate
The software that once required a special-edition PC is now available to anyone with the right version of Windows. See Chapter 16 for more.
Windows Media Player All Versions
This massive music and video player is described in Chapter 15. Note: What happened to Windows Meeting Space, which would ordinarily appear here in the alphabetical list? It’s gone. Microsoft has eliminated it. The requirements were too steep, the setup was too confusing, and pretty much nobody used it. Then again, Microsoft SharedView offers pretty much the same features in a free, simpler form: http://connect.microsoft.com/site94.
Windows Live Movie Maker Home Premium • Professional • Enterprise • Ultimate
It’s Microsoft’s basic video-editing program—the iMovie of the PC world. It’s part of Windows Live Essentials, and it’s described in the free PDF appendix to this book, “Windows Live Movie Maker & DVD Maker.” You can download it from this book’s “Missing CD” page at www.missingmanuals.com.
Windows Update All Versions
This program is Microsoft’s system for patching your copy of Windows via the Internet. Full coverage appears in Chapter 20.