Cleaning Windows XP For Dummies

Cleaning Windows XP For Dummies
By Allen Wyatt
ISBN: 978-0-7645-7549-5
Format: PDF
Pages: 356 Pages
Pub. Date: September 2004

• This wide-ranging guide helps ordinary users fight back against Windows slowdowns, glitches, and annoyances
  
• Windows is the world's dominant desktop operating system, with 93.8 percent of the market as of 2002
  
• Packed with savvy tips for decluttering a system, speeding up access to programs and data, customizing the interface, rooting out resource hogs, tuning up e-mail and Web browser performance, protecting against viruses, and more
  
• Focuses on Windows XP and covers the new Service Pack 2, but many techniques are applicable to older Windows versions

Table of contents

Introduction.

Part I: The Basics of Cleaning Your System.

Chapter 1: First Things First: Why You Should Clean.

Chapter 2: Determining What to Clean and When.

Part II: Programs and Data.

Chapter 3: Identifying What You Have.

Chapter 4: Making Your Programs Run Faster.

Chapter 5: Getting Rid of Old Programs.

Chapter 6: Data, Data Everywhere.

Chapter 7: Organizing and Archiving Data.

Part III: E-Mail and the Internet.

Chapter 8: Tackling E-Mail Overload.

Chapter 9: Organizing Your E-Mail.

Chapter 10: Banishing Internet Villains.

Chapter 11: Managing Internet Information.

Part IV: The Operating System.

Chapter 12: Cleaning Up the User Interface.

Chapter 13: Streamlining Windows.

Chapter 14: Speeding Up the File System.

Chapter 15: Managing Windows Updates.

Chapter 16: Getting a New System.

Part V: Advanced Cleaning for the Truly Brave.

Chapter 17: Memory and Storage.

Chapter 18: Becoming Security Conscious.

Chapter 19: Cleaning House in a Networked Environment.

Chapter 20: Jumping Into the Registry.

Chapter 21: Wiping the Slate Clean.

Part VI: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 22: Ten Troubleshooting Ideas.

Chapter 23: Ten Software Cleaning Tools.

Chapter 24: Ten Online Resources.

Chapter 25: Ten Cool Things in XP Service Pack 2.

Index.

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