52 Chapter 5
Using the Menu System
Chapter 5 53
Using the Menu System
Editing user prole names
The four user proles – User 1 to User 4 – can be renamed for members of your
household. The Family and All Channels proles cannot be renamed. You can
change the names of User 1 to User 4 proles to anything you wish, using up to
eight letters and numbers.
1. Press the MENU button on your remote control (the main menu appears).
2. Highlight PROFILES and press SELECT (the Proles menu appears).
3. Highlight the prole you wish to rename and press SELECT (the menu for
that user prole appears, with the Edit User Name item highlighted).
4. Press SELECT to start editing the user name for that prole (the Edit User
Name screen appears).
5. Type a new name for the user prole as described below:
• To type each letter or number in the new name, highlight a key on the
on-screen keyboard and press SELECT. Repeat this until you have typed
the entire name.
• If you need to erase letters, highlight the on-screen left arrow (near the
top-right corner of the keyboard) and press SELECT.
• To erase the entire name, highlight Clear and press SELECT.
6. When you have nished typing the user prole name, highlight Back and
press SELECT.
Editing channel lists
Editing channel lists simplies your channel surng by removing unwanted
channels from your channel list. When a prole is active, its channel list
determines:
• which channels are skipped when you press the CH+/CH- buttons to scroll
through channels, and
• which channels appear in the Program Guide.
You can tune to a channel directly by pressing the 0 - 9 buttons on your remote
control even when that channel is removed from the prole's channel list.
The Family prole is the master prole—channel restrictions set in the Family
prole apply to the entire DIRECTV
®
System (when the system is locked),
regardless of which user prole is active. Channels that are removed from the
channel list in the Family prole are “blocked” for all proles—that is, these
channels cannot be viewed even when tuned directly using the 0 - 9 buttons on
your remote.
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