INTRODUCTION.

Part 1 Windows XP from Desktop to bottom.

1 Who Could Believe That Thereâ ™s a Harder Way to Log Into Windows?.

2 Startup Options, Situations, and Programs.

3 Halting Desktop Madness (Part I).

4 Halting Desktop Madness (Part II).

5 Taming the Taskbar.

6 Betcha Didnâ ™t Know All This Stuff About the Start Panel.

7 Learn About the Quick Launch Bar So You Look Better Than Your Co-Workers Who Are Clueless.

8 Other Creative and Useful (But Not Too Bizarre) Ways to Start your Stuff.

9 Stuff You Should Know About Your Documents and My Documents.

10 The My Computer Folder: Not as Important as My Documents, but Vital Nonetheless.

11 There Must Be a Better Way to Get to the Control Panel.

Part 2 All the Intermediate-Level, Good Stuff about Disks, Files, and Stuff Like That .

12 The Complete Summary of File Manipulation Commands, 90% of Which You Didnâ ™t Know.

13 Bow to Drive C or Suffer the Perilous Consequences.

14 Archiving Techniques to Save Your Butt.

15 All the Necessary Information About Burning a Data CD-R or CD-RW Disk.

Part 3 Nifty Audio and Graphics Information That No One Shares.

16 What You Need to Know About Graphics to Survive.

17 Image-Scanning, Digital Camera, and Photo-Editing Tips.

18 Graphics and the Internet.

19 The Wee Graphics: What You Donâ ™t Know About Icons.

20 For All Issues Audio, We Worship at the Temple of Windows Media Player.

Part 4 Thereâ ™s More Internet Out There Than You Know .

21 Connecting to the Internet (or Not, as the Case May Be).

22 Beating Internet Explorer into Submission.

23 Confronting Your Basic E-Mail Frustrations.

24 Just Enough Address Book to Make Your Life Easier.

Part 5 All the Random Tidbits about Configuring Your Computer That Youâ ™ll Want to Ignore But Shouldnâ ™t .

25 Say! Isnâ ™t that a creaky old DOS program you have there?.

26 True Geniuses Know How to Manage Disk Drives.

27 The Task Manager Nightmare.

28 I Really Want to Impress My Friends and Coworkers with My Knowledge of System Administration.

INDEX.