Cleaning Windows XP For Dummies - Softcover

Wyatt, Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076457549X ISBN 13: 9780764575495

Publisher: For Dummies, 2004

Synopsis

• 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

About this title

About the Author

Allen Wyatt, an internationally recognized expert in small computer systems, is president of Discovery Computing, Inc., a computer and publishing services company located in Mesa, Arizona. He has worked in the computer and publishing industries for almost two decades, writing more than 50 books and numerous magazine articles. Allen’s popular lectures and seminars have reached audiences throughout the United States, as well as throughout Mexico and Costa Rica.
Besides writing books and technical materials, Allen helps further the computer book industry by providing consulting, production, and project management services. He publishes two free weekly newsletters, WordTips and ExcelTips (www.VitalNews.com).
Allen can be reached by e-mail at awyatt@dcomp.com.

From the Back Cover

Streamline your system and safeguard your computer

Eliminate unused programs, organize data, dump stale cookies, and pick up speed

If you can brew a pot of coffee while your programs load, it’s time to clean the Windows! Here's how to clear out stuff you don't need, create an orderly desktop, scrub away Internet gunk, and keep your system clutter-free by setting up a regular cleaning schedule. Through sparkling clean Windows, you’ll see faster, safer computing that’s a lot more fun.

The Dummies Way

• Explanations in plain English
• "Get in, get out" information
• Icons and other navigational aids
• Tear-out cheat sheet
• Top ten lists
• A dash of humor and fun

Discover how to:

• Make your programs run faster
• Archive old data and remove duplicate files
• Eliminate spyware and adware
• Manage Internet information safely
• Shut down unused services
• Optimize Service Pack 2's security features

Edition details

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076457549X
• ISBN 13: 9780764575495
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360