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Windows XP Home Edition offers dozens of new features for consumers: an elegant user interface, drag-and-drop CD burning, and powerful ways to view and manage digital photos and music, among other features. With the release of Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows XP now provides better protection against viruses, worms, and malicious hackers. But it still comes without a single page of printed instructions. Fortunately, the new edition of Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual fills the void. With its wealth of tips, instructions, and expert advice, this comprehensive resource is your ticket to making your time at the computer safer, easier, and more fun. And best of all, it's been updated to include detailed coverage of Service Pack 2. Written in easy-to-follow, jargon-free language, Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual, Second Edition is perfectly suited for both first-time PC fans and budding power users. And like the rest of the Missing Manual series, it also relies on technical insight, crystal-clear objectivity, and a sense of humor--meaning no one will be left behind. The book begins with a tour of the Desktop and instructions for customizing the Taskbar and toolbars. It also includes a primer on how to organize files, folders, and windows for maximum efficiency. More advanced chapters explore control panels and built-in applications; walk through configurations like how to set up a PC for Internet use; and address the standard Windows rituals of troubleshooting, installation, and upgrading. For the height of manageability and control, the book also conveys all the need-to-know information about the security technologies featured in Windows XP SP2, so you can better defend yourself against viruses, worms, and hackers. Readers even receive guidelines and instructions for installing SP2 on their PC, or across a network of computers. Co-authored by David Pogue, New York Times computer columnist and Missing Manuals creator, this updated guide is the friendly, authoritative book that should have been in the box. It's sure to become your preferred guide whenever you sit down to Windows XP.
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    059600897X
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0596008970
  3. Edition
    2nd
  4. Publisher
    O'Reilly Media
  5. Publication date
    January 25, 2005
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7 x 1.5 x 9.19 inches
  8. Print length
    624 pages
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David Pogue, Yale '85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. His funny tech videos appear weekly on CNBC. And with 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how- to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the "For Dummies" series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music). In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes 100 titles.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 2nd edition (January 25, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 624 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 059600897X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0596008970
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.5 x 9.19 inches
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    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings

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David Pogue was the New York Times weekly tech columnist from 2000 to 2013. He’s a five-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS News Sunday Morning," a New York Times bestselling author, a five-time TED speaker, and host of 20 NOVA science specials on PBS.

He’s written or cowritten more than 120 books, including dozens in the "Missing Manual" tech series, which he created in 1999; six books in the "For Dummies" line (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music); two novels (one for middle-schoolers); his three bestselling "Pogue’s Basics" books of tips and shortcuts (on Tech, Money, and Life); his new how-to guides, "iPhone Unlocked" and "Mac Unlocked"; and his 2021 magnum opus, "How to Prepare for Climate Change."

After graduating summa cum laude from Yale in 1985 with distinction in music, Pogue spent ten years conducting and arranging Broadway musicals in New York. He has won a Loeb Award for journalism, two Webby awards, and an honorary doctorate in music. He lives with his wife Nicki and their blended brood of five spectacular children in Connecticut and San Francisco.

For a complete list of Pogue’s columns and videos, and to sign up to get them by email, visit https://authory.com/DavidPogue. On Twitter, he’s @pogue; on the web, he’s at www.davidpogue.com. He welcomes civil email exchanges at david@pogueman.com.

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Richard
5.0 out of 5 stars " SHOP AMAZON FIRST " Windows XP? LIFE & love once again has returned for ME & my XP !!
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2017
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For the past 2.5 to 3 years I have been looking for my Information or the Manual for my WINDOWS XP. I was to the point of giving up an had set it aside to take in to be as junked.. Got rid of a lot things but I did not have room to take the XP. I will find what need so next time it is leaving? I started window shoping. I was looking for something else on AMAZON; just before turning off my windows 7 for a JOKE I searched AMAZOM and FOUND WHAT NO ONE ELSE HAD -. It had happed again - AMAZON CAME THRU ! They always seen to be the one's that have what I NEED!
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HN Courtney
5.0 out of 5 stars A useful and well layered owner's manual
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2007
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This very well composed book is up to the mark set by the consistently excellent O'Reilly Publishing Co. to which Mr. Pogue's company is affiliated.

The book is written in a companionable, informal style; one is listening to a friend, not an instructor. There are numerous side bars and screen shots to add variety to the graphic presentation and all the internal cross references are correct.

Whether just starting out with a personal computer or an experienced user, there is ample material, presented in an intelligent manner, to earn a space for this manual on your bookshelf.
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Marilyn G. Visconti
4.0 out of 5 stars very helpful
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2013
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this manual is very easy to understand. i am not up on computer technology alot but this book has helped me tremendously. thank you so much.....
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Kurlelox Jule
5.0 out of 5 stars A well used worn out manual for probably the best everyday OS Apple ever assembled for common man
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2016
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A well used worn out manual for probably the best everyday OS Apple ever assembled for common man. And that's the truth.
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Country Girl
5.0 out of 5 stars Windows XP Home Edition The Missing Manual
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2010
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The copy I received was new and unmarked. Although I haven't used this book much yet, it appears to be a good reference book. As questions arise, I believe I will be referring to it and I am glad to have it.
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judy sicotte
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2016
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dont really need it
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5.0 out of 5 stars windoze XP manual
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2015
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A must have manual for XP..
Great deal, price listed for $0.0 got it for the cost of shipping.
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ankita ghosh
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in India on June 1, 2020
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Book is very good
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Camille Savoie
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in Canada on November 30, 2014
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A useful book when in trouble.
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Ian George Whatton
4.0 out of 5 stars Windows XP Home Edition The Missing Manual
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2013
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It's Great it came a few days after I had Purchased it. But the manual what ever Windows versions you get from this series still does not tell you how to solve the Windows Start Up Errors like the Windows Protection Error Message or the Stop Error Screen Message and does not come with Installation CD and Floppy Disk for Troubleshooting and reinstalling Windows.
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Otliensian
3.0 out of 5 stars The Missing manual.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 3, 2013
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This book is what it says it is but I have not found it to be any better than other manuals, most of which are too full of jargon and technicalities for self taught computer users.
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L R Hart
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2016
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Does the job.
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