Not everyone has a dedicated fax machine in their home or office. XP includes a fax service that provides you with complete faxing capabilities. Using your XP computer, you can send, receive, track, and monitor faxes.

Once you have the fax service installed and configured, you can use your XP based computer to receive faxes. To do so, use the steps that are described below. Keep in mind that the following steps assume that you selected the Enable Receive when you were configuring the fax service. Also, if your XP computer is configured to automatically receive faxes, it will attempt to answer the fax line without your intervention.

To manually receive a fax:

1. Click Start, point to All Programs, Accessories, Communications, Fax, and click the Fax Console.

2. From the File menu, click Receive a fax now.

The fax service will attempt to receive the incoming fax.