Windows Vista: The Missing Manual by David Pogue The unconfirmed error reports are from readers. They have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the opinion of the reader. Here's a key to the markup: [page-number]: serious technical mistake {page-number}: minor technical mistake : important language/formatting problem (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification This page was updated December 21, 2007. UNCONFIRMED errors and comments from readers: (11) 2nd paragraph under The Right Mouse Button is King; ...like the one shown at left in Figure I-3. We don't see Figure I-3 until page 15, it's actually rather confusing to reference Figure I-3 before even talking about Figure I-2. At first I assumed the Figure on the next page (12) was Figure I-3, but then realized it had nothing to do with Right-Clicking. {22} Nostalgia Corner; When customizing desktop icons, you have wording to include "Internet Explorer" as a desktop icon. This is no longer valid in Windows Vista, without creating a shortcut to iexplorer.exe. Unfortunately the only place IE is shown is in the quick launch toolbar and the Start Menu. {23} 11th line; Where is there the reference to Figure 1-2? Its content explains essential features of the new Deskop rather than AERO. So, its context is obsucre immediately after the stress of new features of AERO. {28} Tip: second paragraph; "Just type the first few letters of a program's a folder's name" May want to add an "or" to the sentence. Also, you would type the first letter not the first few letters. {29} 3rd line; Figure 1-5 doesn't explain hierarchical structure in the All Program menu, but it illustrates how to use Startup, as 5th line of page 30 desginates. {39} 8 lines from bottom; If a user is only one and administrator at once, Personal Folder doesn't appear. (40) 1st Paragraph; reference to "box on page 46" instead of "box on page 36" {40} Figure 1-8; The bottom of Figure 1-8 may confuse readers, because some commands are effective but others are useless or ineffective. They are 'ipconfig', 'ipconfig / all', 'ipconfig / all | more'. These commands are a part of "cmd", so "cmd" must be executed at first. Also the 'c' isn't appropriate, as long as it's a normal folder's name. As 'c' is a root folder usually, typing 'c:\' is interpreted correctly. Other examples functions well as long as a folder with same name may not exist in other partitions. {41} the last line; Path doesn't use 'slash', but 'backslash' shown as the example while URL address uses 'slash'. It can confuse beginners easily. (42) 1st paragraph; At the top of page 42 it says; "To discover the program file name of a favorite program, see 'Which One's the Program?' on page 51." On page 51 there is no such phrase "Which One's the Program?". Should page 51 be page 41? There is reference on p.41 to file names of regular programs, however, there is no "Which One's the Program" heading. (46) inside box, Figure 1-11; Actually it not an error, rather it's the explanation of how to get the "run" command appearing again in the Start menu. The explanation is unequivocally deplorable and defies comprehension at least on my part. I just bought the book today. If this is an idication of things to come, I'm sad I purchased it. So, tell me, in easily understandable terms, what buttons I click to find and then add the "run" command again. You also talk about being able to change things that begin upon startup in the "Start" menu - NO, NADA, nope!! you have to use run: msconfig to get those puppies gone. That quasi "Start" menu doesn't show all programs which initiate upon startup. [64] 1st paragraph; The text says "As shown in Figure 2-1, the Search pane appears across the top of the window , just below the Address bar. In fact, the window displayed in Figure 2-1 does not show a Search pane. More importantly, for most windows there seems to be no option to display a Search pane. (66) Figure 2-5; Not errata per se, but noticable misregistration of the pictures in the Figures throughout the book. Some misregistrations make the pictures almost unreadable. Would it be possible to replace my copy with one that doesn't have the misregistrations? {68} just above THE TASKBAR; In Windows Vista For Starters, p. 68 refers to a "Cool slo-mo trick" in Appendix B. I could not find an Appendix B, only the Appendix as such (with no letter following) and the slo-mo trick is not in the index. I checked several times. (69) 4th paragraph; 'metadata (Greek for "data about data")' Not quite: it's Greek for "beyond (or after) data". (72) 6th paragraph - "Tip:"; In the tip on page 72, there is no space between "you" and "press" so it reads as a single word, "youpress." [98-102] Burning CDs and DVDs from the Desktop-Burning, Step by Step Page 99 on; My vista must be considerately different from the one used and described.First, autoplay does not appear when you insert a CD or DVD.I had to right click on the CD icon in Computer. It does ask to name disk, however from then on the items so described do not happen.My vista will not do the formatting of a CD and for a DVD it goes through the process. However the pictures showen on P100 do not appear. After trying 3 CDs and one DVD and unable to get a satisfactory burn, I am of the opion that there must be at least one or two steps missing in the manual. {131} 4th paragraph; To open a property box, the menu command is prepared: Organize->Properties. {136} 4th paragraph; When dragging a mouse diagonally, the created rectangle is not dotted-line, but normal blue line filled with transparent light blue. {139} 2nd paragraph; These two panes enable copy and move of folders and files mutually. The expamle explaned is from left pane to right, while move or copy from right pane to left is possible. It might be handier from left to right because dragging on a little icon is not so easy. If hesitating for a mement, another inner folder within the target folder could be an undesirable destination folder because Windows interpretes dragging on a folder of the right pane for a second as opening this hierarchical folder. {146} last paragraph; The keystroke of shortcuts is a fantastic feature, but works well only if they are on the desktop. Even when opening the Start Menu and putting them into it, shortcut keystroke does not launch it. In this case the Start Menu is opened by right-clicking the Start icon. Therefore, the full exploitation of this feature might make the Desktop a mess. (152) 4th paragraph; `you can the eject the CD` is strange. (196) 1st paragraph; "expanded from" seems the misprint of "expanded form". (197) right column of "UP TO SPEED"; The selected control is "Large icon" checkbox and the default button is "Close". {233} Text for Figure 6-19; Text suggests that a user turn off Tablet PC Optional components if computer doesn't have a touch screen. User should note that turning off this component also disables the Snipping Tool! (236) last sentence of 5th paragraph; Author referes to free bonus article "Removing Stubborn Programs" in Missing CD for this book. Article does not exist as far as I can tell. {241} last paragraph; Double-clicking a date number makes a new schedule. {242} 11th paragraph; Dragging every point of an appointment sticker can move it. So, Month View enables an appointment to move to another day without the colored ?grip?. (244) 8th paragraph; Recurrence>Detail has three options. The last one can specify the last day of some event. [637-639] 1st and more; The mistake lies here (p 637): "The bad news is that the second drive needs to come before your C: drive ..." No, the S: partition apparently does not have to be located before the C: partition. The BitLocker Drive Preparation Tool (now available) shrinks the C: drive nd creates the S: drive after the C: drive. So, without the BLDPT, you can use the method described on p. 603, "... chose Shrink Volume." There could have been one good reason to place the S: drive first: support for dynamic disks, as you need free space that is not partitioned at the end of your disk to create the private region database for the dynamic disk. However, BitLocker does NOT support dynamic disks. One reason might be that its main intended use is on portables which normally only use basic disks. Description of the BitLocker Drive Preparation Tool http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930063/en-us The option to upgrade a basic disk to a dynamic disk is not available on a portable computer http://support.microsoft.com/kb/232463/en-us [681] top (all versions); The Local User Groups, Lusrmgr.msc, plug-ins are not available in the Home Premium version of Vista. (First edition, Jan. 2007) {707} 3rd paragraph; States to right-click the icon of the network connection. Should be select adapter properties. {787} 4rth paragraph; Not all registry files are marked as invisible: ntuser.dat is, not the files in C:\Windows\System32\config. In addition to backups, writes are done using atomic transactions. [788] 7th; The Big Five Hives In short the technical description of the registry "is - there's no diplomatic way to put this" (p. 642) - not the finest work in an otherwise excellent book. Hives and keys are not the same thing (and what you see in regedit are not keys, but handles to keys, the HKEY!). Despite the fact that you see five top-level keys (or handle to keys), there are really only three top-level directories, and one of those is not shown among the five displayed. Real keys: 1) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM) 2) HKEY_USERS (HKU) 3) HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA (HKPD) Symbolic links 4) HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (HKCR) 5) HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG (HKCC) 6) HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU) HKPD is a window into the OS, just as /proc in most UNIX systems except OS X, which uses kvm and sysctl instead of procfs. The keys don't correspond to hives. Take a look here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/winntas/tips/winntmag/inreg.mspx?mfr=true.