The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
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Location |
Description |
Submitted by |
Date submitted |
| Printed |
Page 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.
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Anonymous |
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Page 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 This is no longer valid in Windows Vista, without creating a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.
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Anonymous |
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Page 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.
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Anonymous |
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Page 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.
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Anonymous |
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Page 29
2nd tip |
Web page www.sysinfo.org/startupinfo.htlm concerning list of startup software and instructions for turning it off in the startup folder does not exist. I tried 07/23/09
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Anonymous |
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Page 31-46
the whole page |
The unnumbered pages between page 30 and 47 are inserted in the book backwards. After reading page 30, you need to skip ahead to the unnumbered page before page 47 and start reading backwards back to page 30. This is in the February 2007 printing.
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Anonymous |
Jun 25, 2008 |
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Page 39
8 lines from bottom |
If a user is only one and administrator at once, Personal Folder doesn't appear.
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Anonymous |
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Page 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.
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Anonymous |
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Page 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.
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Anonymous |
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Page 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.
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Anonymous |
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Page 49
Tip |
Tip on page 49 refers to tip on page 51; however, the tip is actually located on page 50.
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Anonymous |
Aug 06, 2008 |
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Page 54
Text box besides Figure 1-15 |
You can't pin a folder 'above the line' in Start Menu by right-clicking the Start Menu in Explore -- it creates a folder, but in All Programs, which is not really the visibility you are looking for.
You can achieve this by creating a shortcut to the folder and then dragging it to the Start Menu and placing it where you want.
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Alan W Dahl |
Nov 13, 2009 |
| Printed |
Page 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.
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Anonymous |
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Page 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?
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Anonymous |
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Page 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.
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Anonymous |
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Page 69
4th paragraph |
'metadata (Greek for "data about data")'
Not quite: it's Greek for "beyond (or after) data".
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Anonymous |
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Page 74
Middle |
No mention is made of the missing Attributes column in Windows Explorer.
I'm a developer, starting to switch to Vista (from XP) as a development platform, and that item is a must have. I need to quickly look at the file attributes for thousands of files --especially read only. I can't find any way to do it--and it's not mentioned anywhere.
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Richard Hantz |
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Page 81
Power User's Clinic, last paragraph |
The last paragraph says that "The checkboxes below the calendar offer one-click access to photos taken earlier this week, earlier this year, and before the beginning of this year (a long time ago.)" The picture shows different categories, though: Unspecified, Sometime in the future, Today, and A long time ago. Either the picture or the wording should be modified.
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Anonymous |
May 15, 2009 |
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Page 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.
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Anonymous |
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Page 113
Last paragraph |
The last paragraph of page 113 states that searching with the explorer search bar in a non-indexed location does not search as you type. Vista does search as you type in one of those locations (I have tested in program files). It does show you a message that it will search slowly, but that is the only difference.
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Anonymous |
May 16, 2009 |
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Page 131
4th paragraph |
To open a property box, the menu command is prepared: Organize->Properties.
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Anonymous |
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Page 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.
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Anonymous |
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Page 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.
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Anonymous |
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Page 152
4th paragraph |
`you can the eject the CD` is strange.
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Anonymous |
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Page 197
right column of "UP TO SPEED" |
The selected control is "Large icon" checkbox and the default button is "Close".
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Anonymous |
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Page 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!
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Anonymous |
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Page 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.
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Anonymous |
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Page 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?.
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Anonymous |
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Page 244
8th paragraph |
Recurrence>Detail has three options. The last one can specify the last day of some event.
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Anonymous |
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Page 534
Top |
Besides local and network printers, shared printers are often used on home networks. The wizard for network printers will not find a shared printer.
To connect to a shared printer
go to Start -> Network and open the PC that has the printer.
Right click on the printer and select Connect
Log on, if requested.
Go to Control Panel -> Printers and see that the shared printer is now listed.
Right click on the shared printer and select properties. Print a test page.
Right click on the shared printer and make it the default printer.
Remeber to turn on the PC that is wired to the printer before trying to print.
I believe that this is correct. It worked for me.
Peter Liddell
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Anonymous |
Mar 21, 2009 |
| Printed |
Page 546
Printing a printer file section |
Reader should be told that the lpt1 port must have a printer mapped to it for the command to work. This is done via the printer's properties followed by the DOS command "net use lpt1:\printer_location /persistent:yes" Then the command "copy filename.prn /b lpt1" may be run. I recommend Bruce Sanderson's Windows Web - printing from DOS
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Anonymous |
Dec 06, 2016 |
| Printed |
Page 597
Last paragraph |
Windows Vista The Missing Manual, Chapter 20 page 597 in discussing
defragging indicates defragging can be started manually by:
Choose (1)Start(2)Control Panel, then Click Systems and Maintenance
and then "Defragment your hard drive".
The problem is that there is no Systems and Maintenance item included
in Windows Vista Home Premium.
Sincerely,
Jim McMahon
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Jim McMahon |
Jul 29, 2009 |
| Printed |
Page 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
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Anonymous |
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Page 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)
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Anonymous |
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Page 707
3rd paragraph |
States to right-click the icon of the network connection. Should be select adapter
properties.
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Anonymous |
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Page 787
4rth paragraph |
Not all registry files are marked as invisible: ntuser.dat is, not the files in
C:WindowsSystem32config. In addition to backups, writes are done using atomic transactions.
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Anonymous |
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Page 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.
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Anonymous |
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| PDF, ePub, Mobi |
Page 18749
these exist all throughout. |
"issimplicity" should be "is simplicity"
"calendarsee" should be "calendar see"
"alsoburning" should be "also burning"
"deletingsee" should be "deleting see"
"camerassee" should be "cameras see"
"diskssee" should be "disks see"
"alsodrive" should be "also drive"
"alsocommand" should be "also command"
"customzing" should be "customizing"
"alsosharing" should be "also sharing"
"folderssee" should be "folders see"
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Anonymous |
Sep 17, 2019 |