Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows XP in 24 Hours

By Greg Perry

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Wake Up with Windows XP
  • Hour 1. Taking a Bird's-Eye Look at Windows XP
  • Hour 2. Getting Started with Windows XP
  • Hour 3. Managing the Windows XP Interface
  • Part II: Morning Windows Desktop Exploration
  • Hour 4. Working with the My Computer Window
  • Hour 5. Navigating Files with Windows Explorer
  • Hour 6. Calling for Help
  • Hour 7. Improving Your Windows Desktop Experience
  • Part III: Early Afternoon Windows Exploration
  • Hour 8. Installing Programs with Windows XP
  • Hour 9. Finding Files, Folders, and Friends
  • Hour 10. Using the Desktop Accessories
  • Part IV: Late Afternoon Internet Integration
  • Hour 11. Surfing the Web with Internet Explorer
    • Introduction to the Internet
    • The WWW: World Wide Web
    • Introducing the Internet Explorer Web Browser
    • Surfing the Internet
    • Locating Information
    • Helpful Browsing Tools
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • Hour 12. Tying Windows into the Web
  • Hour 13. Networking with Windows XP
  • Hour 14. Managing E-mail and Newsgroups with Outlook Express
  • Part V: An Evening with Advanced Windows
  • Hour 15. Exploring Your Hardware Interface
  • Hour 16. Understanding Printing and Fonts
  • Hour 17. Using Windows on the Road
  • Hour 18. Giving Windows XP a Tune-Up
  • Hour 19. Managing Your Hard Drives
  • Hour 20. Tinkering with the Advanced System Tools
  • Part VI: Having Fun at Nighttime
  • Hour 21. Using Media Player
  • Hour 22. Picturing Windows XP Graphics
  • Hour 23. Making Movies with Windows XP
  • Hour 24. Advanced Windows XP Tips
  • Part VII: Appendixes
  • Appendix A. Differences Between the Windows Home and Professional Edition
  • Appendix B. Glossary
  • Appendix C. Answers to Quizzes

Helpful Browsing Tools

Internet Explorer provides several features that help you accomplish your Web-browsing job. You will use these tools to speed your online access as you browse the Internet.

Keeping Links Handy

If you want your most important Web sites located even closer than the Favorites list, add the site to your toolbar's Links list. You can right-click the top of Internet Explorer taskbar and click the Links option to display a series of links to Web sites. Although the links consume a row of Internet Explorer browser content space, they provide yet another quick way to access your frequent Web sites. Figure 11.7 shows the links at the top of the browser window.

Figure 11.7 Your links are ready for one-click access.

Internet Explorer comes pre-installed with a set of links to get you started, but you can add your own and remove those that are already there. To remove or change a link, right-click over the link and select the appropriate menu item from the pop-up menu. To add a link, drag its Web site icon from the Internet Explorer Address text box to the Links bar. You can rearrange links by dragging them one at a time to a different location. To see the links that don't fit on the Links bar, click the arrow at the far right of the Links bar.

Using Shortcut Keys

Internet Explorer supports these two shortcut keys that will save you time:

• F4—Opens the Web address's drop-down list box so that you can quickly jump to a site you have visited recently.
• F6 (and Alt+D)—Places the text cursor in the Web address list box so that you can type a Web address to display.

Open Multiple Browser Windows

You can open multiple Web pages from within Internet Explorer. Suppose that you have been viewing a Web page with links to another page. You want to read both pages, perhaps to compare notes in resized windows. You can open a second Internet Explorer browser window by right-clicking over the hyperlink and selecting Open in New Window from the pop-up menu that appears. In addition, you can hold the Shift key while clicking on that hyperlink to open the page in the second window.

When you open a second window, the browser window opens with your Web site shown there. Your original browser window will still be open, displaying the Web site you started from. By judiciously opening new Web sites in additional windows, you can view several Web pages at the same time without having to browse between them each time you go back to one.

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