Windows Me: The Missing Manual

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Windows Me, the hotly anticipated successor to Windows 98, comes with dozens of important new features. They include a home-networking Wizard; Movie Maker, for creating digital sounds and movies; and self-healing, self-updating software components. But one major failing of Windows remains unaddressed in the Me edition: it comes without a single page of printed instructions.

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Overview

Windows Me, the hotly anticipated successor to Windows 98, comes with dozens of important new features. They include a home-networking Wizard; Movie Maker, for creating digital sounds and movies; and self-healing, self-updating software components. But one major failing of Windows remains unaddressed in the Me edition: it comes without a single page of printed instructions.

In Windows Me: The Missing Manual, author David Pogue provides the friendly, authoritative book that should have been in the box. It's the ideal user's guide for the world's most popular operating system.

The book begins at the beginning: with a tour of the Desktop, the enhanced Start menu, and instructions for customizing the Taskbar and toolbars. There's a special focus on organizing files, folders, and windows for maximum efficiency and minimum clutter.

More advanced chapters explore each control panel and built-in application; walk readers through every conceivable kind of configuration (for Internet use, for peripheral equipment, and so on); and guide them in setting up a small network—an essential skill in today's home or small office—including how to share a single Internet connection among several PCs. The book even shows readers how to access one of today's hottest PC features: listening to live radio, or watching live TV, from all over the world, via the Internet.

Special appendixes cover more technical ground: the various DOS applications that govern the startup and shutdown process, instructions for installing and updating Windows, and so on.

Windows Me: The Missing Manual is a one-stop reference for the professional and consumer Windows user. In keeping with the high standards of the Missing Manual line, the book features superb writing, offers special features for both absolute novices and power users, and covers its topic completely. If Microsoft could close its eyes and wish for the perfect user's guide for its flagship product, Windows Me: The Missing Manual would magically appear.

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Whether you ran out and bought the Windows Me upgrade or it's already installed on your shiny new PC, there's one thing you didn't get from Microsoft: a "real" manual. But you can have one. It's called Windows Millennium: The Missing Manual. We're talking crisp, to-the-point explanations, relevant and well-annotated screen shots, zillions of tips, careful organization and indexing, plus a tough binding designed to survive constant day-to-day use. We're also talking some things you never found in "real" software manuals: objectivity -- even a little wit sprinkled around the edges.

You'll start with the Desktop and Start menu -- and here, David Pogue offers tips Microsoft would've never mentioned. (Did you know you can save some clicks and display the contents of a folder by typing its path in the Start, Run dialog box? Or that you can often track down a missing computer on your network by using the Search for Computers feature even when My Network Places (Network Neighborhood) can't find them? Very cool.)

Then, Pogue covers every aspect of Windows Me, with a complete section of the book reserved for home networking, and another for Internet connections (including web connection sharing, NetMeeting video conferencing, and MSN's instant messaging system). Of course, there's also a hands-on overview of Windows Me's "sexiest" feature: the Movie Maker, which brings digital video moviemaking to Windows.

This is a hefty, thorough book at a very attractive price. It'll be the first WinMe book you refer to, and might well be the only one you'll ever need. (Bill Camarda)

Bill Camarda is a consultant and writer with nearly 20 years' experience in helping technology companies deploy and market advanced software, computing, and networking products and services. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780596000097
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 9/8/2000
  • Series: Missing Manual Series
  • Pages: 423
  • Product dimensions: 7.04 (w) x 9.18 (h) x 0.89 (d)

Meet the Author


David Pogue, a Yale grad and former Broadway conductor, writes the Computer Press Association award-winning back-page column for Macworld magazine. He's the author or coauthor of 15 computer, humor, and music books, including PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide, Mac for Dummies, Opera for Dummies, Classical Music for Dummies, Magic for Dummies, Macworld Mac Secrets, Hard Drive (a novel), The Microsloth Joke Book, and Tales from the Tech Line. Mia Farrow, Carly Simon, Harry Connick, Jr., and Stephen Sondheim are among his computer students. He's a frequent presenter at the Palm Computing booth at national trade shows.
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Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One: The Windows Me Desktop

Chapter 1: A Welcome to Windows

Chapter 2: The Desktop and Start Menu

Chapter 3: Windows, Folders, and the Taskbar

Chapter 4: Icons, Shortcuts, and the Recycle Bin

Chapter 5: Getting Help

Part Two: The Components of Windows Me

Chapter 6: Programs and Documents

Chapter 7: The Freebie Software

Chapter 8: Sound and Movies

Chapter 9: The Control Panel

Part Three: Windows Online

Chapter 10: Hooking Up to the Internet

Chapter 11: What to Do on the Internet

Part Four: Plugging Into Windows Me

Chapter 12: Printing and Fonts

Chapter 13: Plug and Play

Chapter 14: The Multiple-Users Feature

Chapter 15: PC Health and Troubleshooting

Part Five: Building a Small Network

Chapter 16: Setting Up a Network

Chapter 17: Using Your Network

Part Six: Appendixes

Appendix A: Installing Windows Me

Appendix B: Windows Me, Menu by Menu

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