SafePC · Video calls
Decline a call and call back later
Not a good moment? Decline, then call back from the recent calls.
Step by step
- Click the Start button! Look at the bottom of this practice computer: the dark strip there is its taskbar. In the middle of it, click the Start button (four blue squares). The main menu opens just above it. If you see two taskbars, use the one inside this page.
- Click "Video Chat". In the menu that opened, click the "Video Chat" tile (a square with a small picture and its name under it): the app opens in its own window.
- Mike Johnson is calling you: wait. Keep Video Chat open: in a few seconds Mike Johnson calls you, and the window shows "Mike Johnson is calling you".
- Decline: the red button. You are busy: click the red button to decline. Mike sees that you could not answer.
- Call back. Under "Recent calls", on the line "Missed call from Mike Johnson", click "Call back".
- Wait for Mike to answer. The computer is calling. Wait a few seconds: Mike answers and you see each other. What Mike says is written at the bottom of the video.
- End the call. Click the red button "End" at the bottom.
- Close this window. You are done with this window, so close it: click the ✕ button at the top right corner of the "Video Chat" window (on its title bar, the strip at the top). The window disappears.
These steps are written for SafePC, a pretend Windows-style computer in your web browser. On your own computer, the buttons and menus may look a little different, but the idea is the same.
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