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Insider Power Techniques for Microsoft® Windows® XP
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Insider Power Techniques for Microsoft® Windows® XP

by Paul McFedries, Geoff Winslow, Scott Andersen, Austin Wilson
February 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
412 pages
10h 6m
English
Microsoft Press
Content preview from Insider Power Techniques for Microsoft® Windows® XP

Chapter 6. Installing and Running Programs

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to:

  • Install software safely.

  • Launch programs easily using a variety of methods.

  • Run an application as a different user.

  • Operate older programs with success by understanding application compatibility.

Almost all users purchase and learn how to use their computers for one reason: to run applications. This means that we who spend a not-insignificant chunk of our computing lives installing software and launching programs also expend our fair share of time trying to recover from problems created by recent software installations, or when other users run programs they weren’t supposed to. It makes sense, therefore, to learn the right ways to add software to our computers and run ...

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