Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual 3rd Printing Changes 10/17/02 --------------- Table of Contents (Update) [Corrected the listings of Chapters 15/16] -------------- Front Matter [list of books updated] --------------- Chapter 2 29 (Update) Add to caption: If you have Service Pack 1 (page 182), by the way, the top of your All Programs list shows an additional, telltale item: Set Program Access and Defaults. It's a shortcut to the panel that lets you (or the Justice Department) hide Microsoft's Internet programs. --------------- 32 (Update) [caption formatting fixed] --------------- 47 (Update) The text used to read: Like a kid cramming for an exam, it can read, take notes on, and memorize the contents of all of your text-based files: It now reads: Like a kid cramming for an exam, it can read, take notes on, and memorize the contents of certain common text-based file types: --------------- 51 (Update) [replacement graphic; fixed drive letter] --------------- Chapter 3 89 (Update) The text used to read: when you sit down in front of your Mac each morning. It now reads: when you sit down in front of your PC each morning. --------------- Chapter 6 176-184 (Update) [Shifted prose to accommodate the insert about Service Pack 1] Insert the following on page 182: Service Pack 1 Software is never finished-especially Microsoft's. That's why, in the fall of 2002, Microsoft released a 330 MB software updater called Service Pack 1. (If your PC didn't come with SP1 already installed, you can download the installer from www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/pro/ downloads/servicepacks/sp1/default.asp. The same Web site includes instructions for ordering the SP1 on a CD for $10.) Tip: To find out if you already have SP1, right-click My Computer and choose Properties. You'll see "Service Pack 1" beneath the other System details. SP1 doesn't change XP's looks, features, or speed. It's mostly what Automatic Update (page xx) has been feeding you all along: bug fixes, security patches for your Internet programs, and so on. But it also offers a few changes like these: o It makes Windows recognize USB 2.0, a faster kind of add-on equipment connector that's available on new PCs. o It installs Java (page 324). o It adds ads to MSN Explorer. o If you make substantial changes to your PC's guts-surgery so dramatic that you have to re-activate XP (page 286)-you now have a three-day grace period before Windows locks you out of your own machine. The real raison d'jtre for SP1, though, is satisfying the U.S. Department of Justice. In its agreement, Microsoft promised to give its competitors a fighting chance at equal footing. For the first time, Windows offers you the chance to hide Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, and a few other standard Microsoft programs, which is presumably a benefit to people who prefer Netscape, Eudora, and Microsoft's other rivals. You can view this new dialog box by choosing StartFAll ProgramsFSet Program Access and Defaults (a new command). (The long way: Open the Add or Remove Programs icon in the Control Panel, and then click the new "Set Program Access and Defaults" icon at the left side.) You see the display shown in Figure 6-17, where you can choose from among these options: o Microsoft Windows means, "Use all of Microsoft's Internet programs (Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Windows Media Player, Windows Messenger, and Microsoft's version of Java), just as Windows XP has been doing from Day One." o Non-Microsoft means, "Hide Microsoft's programs on the Start menu and desktop. Instead use the replacement programs I've installed (Netscape Navigator, Eudora, RealPlayer, Sun's Java, or whatever)." o Computer Manufacturer means, "Use whatever programs are recommended by Dell" (or whoever made the PC and signed deals with AOL, Real, and so on). This option doesn't appear on all PCs. o Custom lets you choose (Microsoft or not) each kind of program independently. Note: Not all non-Microsoft programs show up here-only versions that have been released since SP1 became available. In short, SP1 won't change your life much one way or another. You've been downloading most of the bug fixes and security patches already, and hiding Microsoft's Internet programs is a feature intended more for the Department of Justice's pleasure than for yours. But if your PC came with it installed, or if you're willing to wait for the download, it's slightly better to have it than not. --------------- Chapter 9 249 (Update) The text used to read: It offers three panels that offer important software-management functions: ... It now reads: This program, freshly overhauled in Windows XP, is described at length in Chapter 6. Its panels offer several important software-management functions: ... o Set Program Access and Defaults. This option (available only if you have Service Pack 1 installed) is described on page 184. --------------- Chapter 11 315 (typo) The text used to read: To make Windows forget the one of the Web sites It now reads: To make Windows forget one the of the Web sites --------------- Index 566 (Update) [insert this entry:] Service Pack 1, 29, 182-184, 249