Windows XP All in one desk referance

Contents at a Glance

Book I: A Windows XP Overview

Chapter 1: Introducing Windows XP
Chapter 2: A Windows XP Orientation.
Chapter 3: Running Windows from Start to Finish
Chapter 4: Getting Help with Windows XP
Chapter 5: Searching Your Machine and Beyond
Chapter 6: Getting the Basic Stuff Done
Chapter 7: Maintaining Your System
Chapter 8: Focusing on Windows XP/Professional

Book II: Customizing Your Windows eXPerience

Chapter 1: Personalizing Your Desktop
Chapter 2: Organizing Your Windows XP Interface
Chapter 3: Lock Down: Spies, Spams, Scams, and Slams
Chapter 4: Security Center: Windows Firewall
Chapter 5: Security Center: Automatic Updates
Chapter 6: Security Center: Virus Protection

Book III: Windows XP and the Internet

Chapter 1: Expanding Your Reach through the Internet
Chapter 2: Connecting to the Internet
Chapter 3: Managing E-Mail and Newsgroups with Outlook Express
Chapter 4: Chatting with Windows Messenger
Book IV: Adventures with Internet Explorer

Chapter 1: Finding Your Way around the Internet Explorer Window .
Chapter 2: Advanced Browsing and Searching with Internet Explorer
Chapter 3: Making Internet Explorer Your Own
Book V: Connecting with Microsoft Network
Chapter 1: MSN: Who Needs Ya, Baby?
Chapter 2: MSN Explorer
Chapter 3: Taking MSN Explorer for a Spin
Chapter 4: Hotmail (a.k.a. MSN E-Mail)
Chapter 5: MSN Messenger

Book VI: Adding and Using Other Hardware

Chapter 1: Finding and Installing the Hardware You Want
Chapter 2: Working with Printers
Chapter 3: Getting the Scoop on Scanners

Book VII: Joining the Multimedia Mix

Chapter 1: Jammin’ with Windows Media Player
Chapter 2: Lights! Action! Windows Movie Maker
Chapter 3: Discovering Digital Cameras and Recorders

Book VIII: Windows Media Center

Chapter 1: Windows Media Center: Should You Buy One? .
Chapter 2: Setting Up a Media Center PC
Chapter 3: Running Windows Media Center

Book IX: Setting Up a Network with Windows XP

Chapter 1: Those Pesky Network Things You Have to Know
Chapter 2: Building Your Network
Chapter 3: Putting the Why in Wi-Fi
Chapter 4: Protecting Your Privacy

About This Book

Windows XP All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 2nd Edition, takes you through the Land of the Dummies — with introductory material and stuff your grandmother could (and should!) understand — and then continues the journey into more advanced areas, where you can really put Windows to work every day. I don’t dwell on technical mumbo-jumbo, and I keep the baf­fling jargon to a minimum. At the same time, though, I tackle the tough prob­lems you’re likely to encounter, show you the major road signs, and give you a lot of help where you’ll need it the most.extensions by default, but you can and should go in and change that. Yeah, I know that Bill G. hisself made the decision to hide them, and he won’t back off. (At least, that’s the rumor.)
I also know that hundreds — probably thousands — of Microsoft employees passed along the ILOVEYOU virus, primarily because they couldn’t see the filename extension that would’ve warned them that the file was a virus. Uh, bad decision, Bill.

(If you haven’t yet told Windows XP to show you filename extensions, take a minute now and hop to Book I, Chapter 3, and get Windows XP to dance to your tune.)
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