Short description
Demonstrates the operating system's updated features, covering customizing, configuration, networking, maintenance, security, and troubleshooting.
Long description
The bestselling computer book of all time-more than eight million copies sold in all editions-now revised to cover the updates in Windows XP Service Pack 2 as well as updates in popular Windows applications This fifty percent revision includes a fully revamped , "task-oriented" table of contents as well as expanded coverage of e-mail, anti-spam tools, faxing, troubleshooting, customization, multimedia, and CDs and DVDs-plus a brief look ahead to the next generation of Windows, codenamed "Longhorn" Walks first-time Windows XP users through signing on, navigating the interface, using basic applications, finding and working with files, handling Internet functions, setting up peripherals, and fixing basic problems Written in the friendly, accessible For Dummies style by Andy Rathbone-one of the bestselling tech authors of all time.
Review
"...sure to be a huge seller..." (Publishing News, July 2004)
Table of contents
- Introduction
- Part I
- Windows XP Stuff Everybody Thinks You Already Know
- Chapter
- What Is Windows XP? Chapter
- The Desktop, Start Menu, and Other Windows XP Mysteries
- Chapter
- Basic Windows Mechanics
- Chapter
- Flipping Through Files, Folders, Floppies, and CDs
- Part II
- Working with Programs and Files
- Chapter
- Playing with Programs and Documents
- Chapter
- I Can't Find It! Chapter
- Printing, Faxing, and Scanning
- Part III
- Getting Things Done on the Internet
- Chapter
- Cruising the Web
- Chapter
- Sending Mail and Instant Messages
- Chapter
- Safe Computing
- Part IV
- Customizing and Upgrading Windows XP
- Chapter
- Customizing Windows XP with the Control Panel
- Chapter
- Keeping Windows from Breaking
- Chapter
- Sharing One Computer with Several People
- Chapter
- Connecting Two or More Computers with a Network
- Part V
- Music, Movies, Memories (And Photos, Too)
- Chapter
- Playing and Copying Music in Media Player
- Chapter
- Fiddling with Photos and Movies
- Part VI
- Help! Chapter
- The Case of the Broken Window
- Chapter
- Strange Messages
- What You Did Does Not Compute
- Chapter
- Moving from an Old Computer to a New One
- Chapter
- Help on the Windows XP Help System
- Part VII
- The Part of Tens
- Chapter
- Ten Aggravating Things about Windows XP (And How to Fix Them)
- Chapter
- Ten Things to Remember about Windows XP
- Chapter
- Ten Things to Look Forward to in the Next Version of Windows
- Appendix A
- Upgrading to Windows XP
- Index