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Windows XP Bible

ISBN: 0764548603

This book covers both the Personal and Professional editions

of the Microsoft Windows XP.

Table of Contents

Alan Simpson’s Windows XP Bible

Preface

Part I Know This or Suffer

Chapter 1 - What Is Windows XP? - 7

Chapter 2 - Getting Around Like a Pro - 22

Chapter 3 - Opening Programs and Documents - 55

Chapter 4 - Shortcuts and Other Cool Tricks - 67

Part II Becoming an Internet Guru

Chapter 5 - Connecting to the Internet - 74

Chapter 6 - Browsing the World Wide Web - 89

Chapter 7 - Maximum Web - 107

Chapter 8 - Internet E-Mail - 120

Chapter 9 - Participating in Usenet Newsgroups - 170

Chapter 10 - Windows Messenger, Games, and Such - 178

Chapter 11 - Online Conferencing with NetMeeting - 187

Part III Have It Your Way

Chapter 12 - General Housekeeping (Copying, Deleting, and So On) - 203

Chapter 13 - Organizing Your Virtual Office - 227

Chapter 14 - Personalizing the Screen - 248

Chapter 15 - Speech, Handwriting, Joysticks, and More - 262

Part IV Growth, Maintenance, and General Tweaking

Chapter 16 - Installing and Removing Programs - 280

Chapter 17 - Installing and Removing Hardware - 287

Chapter 18 - Disaster Prevention and Recovery - 301

Chapter 19 - Updates, Maintenance, and Monitoring - 312

Chapter 20 - Managing Multiple Users - 326

Chapter 21 - Road Warrior Tools and Techniques - 332

Part V Work and Play

Chapter 22 - Numbers, Text, and Pictures - 347

Chapter 23 - Cameras, Scanners, and Faxes - 357

Chapter 24 - Sounds, Music, Video, and DVD - 370

Chapter 25 - Fun with Windows Movie Maker - 401

Part VI Local Area Networks

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Chapter 26 - Create Your Own LAN - 414

Chapter 27 - Sharing Resources on a LAN - 423

Chapter 28 - Cool LAN Tricks - 432

Chapter 29 - Beefing Up Security - 437

Part VII Advanced Stuff

Chapter 30 - File Icons, Associations, and Properties - 445

Chapter 31 - Partitions, Volumes, and NTFS - 455

Chapter 32 - Advanced Security Administration - 459

Chapter 33 - Dealing with the Windows XP Registry - 468

Chapter 34 - Special Features of Windows XP Professional - 481

Part VIII Appendices

Appendix A - Installing Windows XP - 487

Appendix B - What’s New in Windows XP - 491

Appendix C - Special Folders and Shortcut Keys - 499

Back Cover

With a new kernel, a new interface, and loads of new multimedia and

connectivity features, Windows XP is the most significant Windows upgrade

since Windows 95. Written by renowned Windows guru Alan Simpson, this

soup-to-nuts guide is just what you need to master XP, whether you want to

customize your system so you can work faster, harness the digital media

features so you can experience music or movies, or make the most of remote

connectivity and networking so you can stay in touch.

About the Author

Alan Simpson is a computer guru and bestselling author with over 2 million

books in print. Many of his works -- including Understanding dBASE IV ,

Mastering WordPerfect for Windows , Mastering WordPerfect 5.1 , and

Understanding Microsoft Access -- are considered classics in the computer

book industry.

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About the Author

Alan Simpson is a freelance computer/Internet consultant and veteran author of digilit (digital

literature). He’s the author of more than 80 computer books, published in many languages throughout

the world. Alan is best known for his light, conversational writing style and clear jargon-free approach to

dealing with technical topics. Prior to writing books full time, Alan taught introductory and advanced

computer programming courses at San Diego State University and University of California, San Diego

Extension. He also worked as a freelance programmer and computer consultant. He maintains the

www.coolnerds.com Web site (when time permits), and can be reached at alan@coolnerds.com .

Brian Underdahl is the best-selling author of more than 50 computer books, including several current

titles from IDG Books Worldwide: Pocket PCs For Dummies, Opera Web Browser For Dummies,

Windows 98 One Step at a Time, Internet Bible, 2nd Edition, Teach Yourself Office 2000, Teach

Yourself Windows 2000 Professional, and Teach Yourself Windows Me. Brian spends most of his time

at the keyboard, writing about personal computing. When he finds the time, he enjoys taking in the view

from the home he and his wife, Darlene, built in the mountains 2,000 feet above Reno, Nevada. He tries

to find the time to attend Mensa meetings whenever possible, and he has become a fairly decent

gourmet cook in the recent years, too.

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Preface

Welcome to Alan Simpson’s Windows XP Bible.

Professional Edition versus Home Edition

Microsoft Windows XP is the latest version of the widely used Windows operating system. This book

covers both the Professional edition and Home edition of Windows XP. On the surface, the two editions

are virtually identical. Skills you learn on one edition will carry right over to the other edition. The

Professional edition offers some extra tools that are of interest to professional corporate system

administrators and network administrators. The Professional edition is the only one to support the use of

multiple monitors, however, which might be of interest to home and small business users as well. If

you’re wondering which version to buy, you might want to review Chapter 34 , which covers the features

of the Professional edition that aren’t available in the Home edition.

Who Should Read This Book

This book is written for people who are not professional computer programmers or corporate

administrators. It’s written for that enormous class of people commonly referred to as users in the

computer biz. These are people whose job requires them to use a computer as an adjunct to their “real

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