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
  • Hour 12. Tying Windows into the Web
  • Hour 13. Networking with Windows XP
    • Networking Your Environment
    • Working with a Network
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • 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

Workshop

The quiz and exercise questions are designed to test your knowledge of the material covered in this hour. The answers are in Appendix C, "Answers to Quizzes."

Quiz

1. What is the difference between a local network and the Internet?

2. Which kind of physical network connection is the easiest to install?

3. Which network connection generally provides the fastest connection speed?

4. True or false: If you have an Internet connection, all of the computers on the network can share the Internet connection.

5. What is tunneling?

Exercises

1. Do you have multiple computers in your home or small office but still transfer files via sneakernet? (Sneakernet is the process of copying a file to a disk or CD-ROM and walking the file to the computer on which you want to copy that file.) Go to your local computer store and look at the networking options available. Many are all-in-one solutions for a small networking system. For example, you can typically find all the hardware and cabling needed for a two-computer network system for less than $100. Why are you waiting to network?

2. After you install your network hardware, run the Home Networking Wizard to set up the network's sharing of devices. After that is installed on all of your networked computers, go to Windows Explorer and look at the drives available there. If you don't see a network drive, select My Network Places and you'll see the network drives there. You can reference those other computers'drives by name any time you open or save a file just as you reference your own computer's disk drives by name when you open or save files to them.

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