all in one desk reference for dummies

... this machine as if it were new Instead, they’ll refurbish it This usually includes electronically wiping the hard disk clean, reinstalling the oper-ating system and applications, checking to see ... service Calling in the Special Forces The good news: Laptop prices have gone down as capabilities have gone up The bad news: Among the ways laptop makers have sought to save money is by reducing (or ... one of their machines, you could call in with a question Today, though, you’re more likely to find severely limited support options You may be allowed to make free requests for support only for

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 09:20

... Chapter 1: Installing or Upgrading an Operating System 67 Clearing Up Windows 67 Keeping the Windows Update Closed 69 Seeing the Windows Experience 71 Upgrading to Windows XP 76 Installing Windows ... Seeing to a Windows Vista Upgrade 82 Installing Windows Vista 87 Oops, I Did It Again: Vista Installation Problems 89 Uninstalling Windows Vista 92 Activating and Registrating 93 Updating Windows ... you can find it again; I usually place notes about hardware and software installation in the original box the machine came in Rating your Experience The bottom line of the Experience Index is

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 09:20

... your machine’s instruction manual for details on displaying the setup screen before the system boots Performing a parallel installation Setting your machine up with more than one operating system ... minimum requirements for Windows XP before you take the first step toward clearing the hard disk drive and installing the new operating system Once you install the OS, install your software applications ... candidates Trang 7Installing Windows XP 80 Taking final steps before upgrading You’re really going to do this? Here’s the preflight checklist: 1.Make sure the laptop is running from the AC adapter

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 09:20

... 4Book II Chapter 1 Installing Windows Vista 87 Installing Windows Vista A classic cartoon is regularly used in business, design, and other training classes (I know, because I use it all the time when ... online, go to www.microsoft.com and search for information about the error 3.Make a call depending on your installation type: • If you’re installing new, call Microsoft • If you’re restoring, ... this using the original operating system, Windows Vista can pick up the information it needs to access the Internet without your help And as installation begins, Windows Vista can automatically

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 09:20

... assured of having your machine kept up-to-date any time it’s connected to the Internet, instruct Windows to look for and install new updates automatically The settings for this free Windows feature ... for all high-priority updates for the programs installed on your machine and presents you with a list You can click a single button to install all of them; some updates, though, must be installed ... security software in Book IX You have two ways to keep your Microsoft Windows installation updated, and they’re interlinked It all begins with turning on Automatic Updating Automatic updating If you

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 09:20

... latest operating system — not one being used by fewer and fewer people every day Trang 2Chapter 2: Painting Flames on the Operating System: Customizing In This Chapter
Choosing the Windows that ... need to change your operating system And, in fact, many users see no point in making a radical change like going from Windows XP to Windows Vista; the newest operating system requires hardware ... standard setting for most laptops is 32 bit, which allows for use of colors from a palette of 16,777,216 hues and intensities; in most systems, 32-bit color actually uses 24 bits to define the color

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 09:20

... set-tings of one machine to another If you’re moving information from a laptop running Windows Vista to another machine running Windows Vista, you can make a nidentical clone If you’re changing ... driver in place If you update your version of Windows (from Windows XP to Windows Vista, for example), the operating system automatically detects the installed device and locates a device driver for ... Chapter
Making your new machine act like your old one
Transferring files and settings with the Windows Vista wizard
Going back from the future with Windows XP Inertia is a powerful thing I’m not

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 09:20

... over to your new machine Windows Easy Transfer works if you’re seeking to move files and settings from a computer running Windows XP or Windows Vista to another machine running Windows Vista If your ... backing up your address books and mail For most Windows XP users (as well as those people using outdated but recent versions of the operating system including Windows Me, Windows 98, and Windows ... Windows Easy Transfer offers three options ✦ All user accounts, files, and settings This choice is recommended if you want to essentially clone one machine to another (except for the operating

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 09:20

... come and gone) as the desktop You can put just about anything you want on that desktop, but sooner or later it’s going to get crowded, making it very difficult to find particular items Windows designers ... and notes for future projects And I also maintain a lifetime collection of receipts, tax forms, and banking and investments records New stuff goes into new folders Items that are continuations ... earlier efforts are added to existing folders, and I place the folders between labeled dividers in one of four filing cabinets in my office And at least once a year, I throw away anything that

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 09:20

... 1Putting Everything in Its Place: Making and Using Folders She’s got this huge pile on her desk When it comes to the files on her com-puter she wants to keep them on the Windows desktop, too: all ... just one example of how you could organize your system In this par-ticular design, all files are kept inside folders and subfolders within a top-level folder (think of it as the file cabinet) called ... cabinet) called My Documents, which is one of the folders Windows automatically creates for you One level down from My Documents are two major folders, one called Business Files and the other Personal

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 09:20

... Manipulating Images 197 Who Knows Where the Time Goes? 208 Chapter 3: Windows Maintenance Utilities 211 Maintaining Windows and Applications 212 Taking Inventory 214 Checking Your Hard Disk for ... Desktop 159 Working with Desktop Icons 161 Exploring the Taskbar 166 Chapter 2: Using Built-in Windows Applications and Gadgets 177 Inspecting Your Gadgets 177 Sweating the Small Stuff: Text ... imagined the garbage was being recycled into the inbox of the next desk to mine My job was very clearly defined One paper at a time Every question was either correct or incorrect Everything progressed

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 09:20

... programs For example, the sub-menu may include an uninstall command or direct access to a utility for the main program Figure 1-5: Click All Programs to expand the Start menu into a listing of all installed ... hovering your cursor over one of the items here should produce a pop-up window that describes the won-drous things that lie beneath the simple names And finally, just to make things interesting for ... button once again Trang 3Exploring the Taskbar 166 Exploring the Taskbar A narrow ribbon of information is usually located at the bottom of the Windows desktop The ribbon is called the taskbar,

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 09:20

... It’s called Windows Flip and Windows Flip 3D, and they’re as cool as a snow cone in an ice storm . . . in a technogeeky kind of way. Windows Flip lets you flip through images of all your open windows ... 1-8: Windows Flip 3D shows all open windows; you can flip through to select the one you want in front. Figure 1-7: In Windows XP, press Alt and tap Tab until your desired destination appears in ... Book III Chapter 2 Using Built-in Windows Applications and Gadgets Inspecting Your Gadgets 181 Adding or removing a Gadget To add a Gadget to the Sidebar, you have to first install the Gadget on

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 09:20

... files using a format called UTF-16, which many other programs can use Unicode files allow simple formatting, including choice of fonts and emphasis including boldface, italic, and underlining Trang ... look up in an index a predefined picture of an A Computer printers worked in much the same way, con-verting a string of numbers into a command to print an A Early computer printers were basically ... but they’re not all waving their hands for attention at the same time ✦ Files tend toward large Because word processors include all sorts of information about things like formatting and styles

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 09:20

... creating or opening it in its original program and using the Copy ➪ Paste command Similarly, you can link an object by choosing Copy ➪ Paste Special Formatting text WordPad allows basic formatting, ... tools included with current versions of Windows: ✦ Paint ✦ Windows Photo Gallery (part of Windows Vista) Trang 5Manipulating Images 198 Paint Pure and simple, Paint allows you to open most existing ... formatting, including font sizes and emphasis includ-ing italics, boldface, and underlines The simplified menu bar at the top of the document is one of two pathways to assigning formatting; you can find

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 09:20

... of Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced Windows Calendar This tool includes a full set of tools for recording your appointments, issuing invita-tions to other meeting participants, and reminding ... laptop — saving a file, deleting a file, installing a program, making a change to a setting, or connecting to the Internet — you leave the machine in a different condition than it was before you ... on the settings you establish for products you install within your operating system, these new bits of code are either automatically sent to your laptop over the Internet and installed or you

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 09:20

... (including Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista) all the heavy thinking is handled by the machine I suggest you attempt to manually change resource settings only if you’re instructed ... driver and reinstall its copy from the original Windows installation files or from elsewhere on your hard disk In certain circumstances — usually for particularly obscure devices — Windows may ... utility called System Information (See Figure 3-2 for an example of a report.) To check System Information, follow along: 1.Click the Start button in Windows Vista On Windows XP, choose Start ➪ All

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 09:20

... Obtaining PHP for Windows 23 xii PHP & MySQL Web Development All- in- One Desk Reference For Dummies Obtaining PHP for Linux 23 Obtaining PHP for the Mac OS 24 Obtaining all- in- one ... 27 Installing on Mac OS X 28 Before installing 28 Installing 29 Installation options for Unix/Linux/Mac 31 Installing on Windows 32 Configuring Your ... Obtaining all- in- one installation kits 76 Verifying a downloaded file .77 Installing Apache 77 Installing Apache on Windows 77 Installing Apache on a Mac 79 Installing...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 14:27

... 2008 ALL- IN- ONE DESK REFERENCE FOR DUMmIES ‰ by Robert D Schneider and Darril Gibson 01_179543-ffirs.qxp 8/23/08 12:23 AM Page ii Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 All- in- One Desk Reference For Dummies ... Database Administration All- InOne and MCITP: SQL Server 2005 Database Developer All- In- One He developed several video training courses for Keystone Learning on several certification topics including ... examining the increasingly important role that relational databases play in modern information-processing solutions Next up is how SQL Server is just one component in Microsoft’s overall information...

Ngày tải lên: 27/01/2014, 09:20

... Reporting Figure 2-3: Configuring business intelligence Reporting SQL Server’s Reporting Services (SSRS) aim to offering the IT organization a single source for creating, maintaining, and delivering ... addressing the ever-multiplying challenges of tying information together from multiple silos Unfortunately, from the perspective of most IT organizations, this leads to purchasing and administering ... flexible and simple to use, and as shown in Figure 3-3, you can bring in data from a broad range of information storage formats, including: Getting Started, Getting Around 10 Review the Ready to Upgrade...

Ngày tải lên: 27/01/2014, 09:20