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Starting a Hangout > Checking Your Setup
Checking Your Setup
After you click “Start a hangout” and your web browser checks to make sure you have the required plug-in installed, a new browser window pops up. The window includes a little motherly advice: check how you look and make sure people can hear you.
Tip
In addition to checking your hair and clothes, take a sec to consider whether what’s behind you will be too distracting. For example, if you’re sitting in a busy café, the other people in your hangout might get annoyed by all the strangers in the background of your video feed, or any screens in sight behind you.
If you’re using a laptop with a built-in webcam, Google+ should be able to automatically connect to it and show you what you’ll look like to other people in the hangout. If your webcam is separate from your computer, you can plug it in while this setup screen is up; if video from the camera doesn’t show up on your screen, try closing the setup screen and then clicking “Start a hangout” again. If that doesn’t work, keep reading this section to learn how to troubleshoot it.