The Complete Idiot's Guide to Windows 98 Table of Contents Introduction Part 1: The Big Windows 98 Picture Chapter 1—What’s New in Windows 98 Some of Windows 98's Shiny, New Features Windows Gets Webbed: Web Integration and the Active Desktop The Net and Windows 98: Internet Explorer 4 and More New Tools for Problem-Free Computing Sights for Sore Eyes and Ears: Windows 98 Multimedia Support for the Latest Hardware Toys A Few More New Features to Get Excited About The Transition from Windows 3.1 to Windows 98 Chapter 2—Windows 98: The 50¢ Tour Starting Windows 98 A Tour of the Screen First Stop—the Desktop A Few Words About Web Integration Next Up—the Taskbar Point, Click, Type: Using Your Mouse and Keyboard Manipulating the Mouse Ctrl, Alt, and Other Keyboard Conundrums Shutting Down Windows for the Night Part 2: Basic Windows 98 Survival Skills Chapter 3—Making Something Happen: Launching and Switching Programs Let's Do Launch: The Start Menu Launching a Program with the Run Command Belly Up to the Bar: How the Taskbar Works A Few More Ways to Switch Programs Quitting a Program Chapter 4—Working with Windows 98's Windows The Parts Department: Window Gadgets and Doodads Working with Windows Extreme Windows: Minimizing and Maximizing Organizing Your Windows: Moving and Sizing Letting Windows Do the Work: Cascading and Tiling What About the System Menu? Using Scrollbars to Navigate Inside a Window Scrolling with the IntelliMouse Chapter 5—Your Click is My Command: Using Menus, Toolbars, and Dialog Boxes A Pull-Down Menu Primer The Quick Click: Toolbar Techniques Talking Back to Windows: How Dialog Box Controls Work Chapter 6—A Few Workaday Document Chores Cranking Out a Fresh Document Saving Your Work for Posterity Saving a New Document Saving an Existing Document Taking Advantage of the My Documents Folder Using the Save As Command to Avoid Reinventing the Wheel Together Again: Opening an Existing Document Closing a Document Chapter 7—Getting Hard Copy: Windows 98 Printing Letting Windows Know You've Got a Printer Printing: The Basic Steps Taking Control of Your Print Jobs Chapter 8—Calling Up the Windows 98 HelpDesk Your Computer as Web Site: Controlling Web Integration Turning Web Integration On and Off Web View versus Classic View Creating Custom Web Views for Your Folders Desktop Dynamism: Working with the Active Desktop Active Desktop Options Adding Stuff to the Active Desktop Part 3: Customizing Windows 98 to Suit Your Style Chapter 9—Webtop Windows: Web Integration and the Active Desktop Your Computer as Web Site: Controlling Web Integration Turning Web Integration On and Off Web View versus Classic View Creating Custom Web Views for Your Folders Desktop Dynamism: Working with the Active Desktop Active Desktop Options Adding Stuff to the Active Desktop Chapter 10—Customizing the Desktop and Taskbar A Desktop to Call Your Own Renovating the Desktop: Working with the Desktop Properties Creating Shortcuts on the Desktop Arranging Desktop Icons Touching Up the Taskbar Reconstructing the Start Menu Chapter 11—Installing and Removing Software and Hardware The Ins and Outs of Software Installation and Removal Adding and Removing Windows 98 Components Welcoming a New Program onto Your Computer Kicking a Program off Your Computer Handling Hardware Installation and Removal Adding a New Hunk of Hardware Letting Windows 98 Know When You've Removed a Device Part 4: Windows 98 "F" Words: Files, Folders, and Floppy Disks Chapter 12—Navigating Your Computer with My Computer and Windows Explorer Using My Computer to Tour Your Machine Customizing the My Computer Window Another Route: Using Windows Explorer Customizing Windows Explorer Chapter 13—Routine File Maintenance First Things First: How to Select Files A Few File Chores From Here to There: Moving and Copying Files A File By Any Other Name: Renaming a File Deleting a File (and Undeleting It, Too) Easier File Maintenance with the Open and Save As Dialog Boxes Finding File Needles in Hard Disk Haystacks Chapter 14—Storage Solutions: Working with Folders and Floppy Disks Folder Folderol: Working with Folders Creating a Shiny, New Folder Copying and Moving a Folder In a Single Bound Renaming Your Folders Deleting Your Folders Disk Driving: Working with Floppy Disks How to Copy a Floppy Starting Over: Formatting a Floppy Disk Just In Case: Creating an Emergency Startup Disk Zip and Jaz: Floppy Disks on Steroids Part 5: It’s a Small World: Communications and the Internet Chapter 15—How to Get Connected to the Internet Using the Internet Connection Wizard to Set Up Your Account Setting Up a New Internet Account Setting Up an Existing Internet Account No Account? Try the Online Services Folder Dialing Up Your Service Provider Chapter 16—Can We Talk? E-mail, Newsgroups, and Internet Phone Calls Express Yourself I: Using Outlook Express for E-mail Working with the Windows Address Book The Two-Cents-Worth Department: Composing a New Message Getting and Reading Your Mail Now What? Replying to, Forward, and Deleting Messages Express Yourself II: Using Outlook Express for Newsgroups Subscribing to a Newsgroup Getting and Reading Newsgroup Messages Joining in the Fun: Posting Messages Phone Free: Using NetMeeting to Place Calls over the Internet Getting NetMeeting Ready for Action Reach Out and Touch Someone: Placing NetMeeting Calls What Other Fun Can You Have in NetMeeting? Chapter 17—Wandering the Web with Internet Explorer A Tour of the Internet Explorer Screen Web Wanderlust: Working with Web Pages Leaping from Link to Link: Navigating the Web Can I Get There From Here? Using the Search Page The Favorites Folder: Sites to Remember Taking Advantage of the History List Hands-Free Surfing: Setting Up Subscriptions The Net for Mouse Potatoes: Using Channels The Internet Show Must Go On: Using the NetShow Player Internet Explorer Your Way: Customizing the Internet Properties Chapter 18—Becoming a Webmaster with FrontPage Express and Other Page Publishing Tools Using FrontPage Express to Forge Web Pages Getting a Web Page Off the Ground A Few Formatting Features Tossing In a Few Links Adding Multimedia to Your Page Building Web Page Tables Creating a Scrolling Text Marquee Inserting Lines, Symbols, Comments, and Other Odds and Sods Painless Page Publishing: Using the Web Publishing Wizard Advertising Your Site Part 6: Putting Windows 98 to Work Chapter 19—The Write Stuff: Windows 98's Writing Tools Using Notepad for Simple Text Tasks Some Basic Document Editing Chores Some Notepad Notes Full Fledged Word Processing with WordPad Using Fonts to Spruce Up Your Text Polishing Your Paragraphs Setting Tab Stops Finding Lost Text in Humongous Files Some Notes About a Few More Basic WordPad Chores Chapter 20—Image is Everything: Windows 98's Graphics Tools The Art of Windows 98: Using Paint A Look Around the Paint Canvas Wielding the Paint Tools A Master Class in Paint Getting a Bigger Picture Dragging-and-dropping a Cutout Creating Sweeps Flipping a Cutout Inverting a Cutout's Colors Stretching and Skewing a Cutout Pasting a File into Your Drawing Setting the Image Attributes Creating Custom Desktop Wallpaper Capturing Screen Shots Graphics Gadgetry: Working with Scanners and Digital Cameras Chapter 21—Bells and Whistles: Multimedia and Windows 98 Windows 98 and CD-ROM Drives Sound Advice: Working with Sounds in Windows 98 Sounding Off: Playing Sounds Keeping It Down to a Dull Roar: Adjusting the Volume Rolling Your Own: How to Record Sounds Playing Audio CDs in Your CD-ROM Drive Big-Screen Windows: Playing Movies Small-Screen Windows: Watching TV Chapter 22—Windows 98's Notebook Knickknacks You Can Take It with You: Using My Briefcase From Laptop to Desktop and Back: Running Direct Cable Connection Other Treats for Notebook Users Power Management Techniques for Preserving Batteries Adding On: Working with PC Card Devices A Home for Your Notebook: Using a Docking Station Air-to-Air Windows: Using Infrared Ports Part 7: Do-It-Yourself Windows 98: System Maintenance and Troubleshooting Chapter 23—Tools for Keeping Your System in Tiptop Shape Using ScanDisk to Avoid Hard Disk Hard Times Spring Cleaning: Using Disk Cleanup to Delete Unneeded Files Using Disk Defragmenter to Put Your Hard Disk Affairs in Order Doubling Your Disk Space Pleasure with DriveSpace Using the Maintenance Wizard to Keep Your System Firing on All Cylinders Is That All There Is? Windows 98's Other System Tools Getting the Latest and Greatest from the Windows Update Web Site Chapter 24—Keeping Your Data Safe and Sound with Backup Backing Up Is Easy to Do: Running the Backup Program If Disaster Strikes: How to Restore Your Data Chapter 25—Troubleshooting Windows Woes Rescue 911: Using Windows 98's Troubleshooters Some Windows Fires and How to Put Them Out Solving Startup Snags Help System Troubleshooters Control Panel Device Manager ScanDisk Dealing with the Dastardly General Protection Fault Overcoming Explorer Exasperations Explorer Isn't Showing You the Correct Information You Have Problems Trying to Copy, Move, Delete, or Rename a File on a Floppy Disk You Can't Copy a Disk You Can't Tell How Much Free Space Is Left on Your Hard Disk Curing Memory Problems Close Down What You Don't Need Delete the Contents of the Clipboard Release Some System Resources Load Larger Applications First Run the Help System's Memory Troubleshooter Shell Out the Bucks to Buy More Memory Fixing Mouse Mishaps Your Mouse Pointer Is Doing Weird Things Windows 98 Doesn't Always Respond to Your Double-Clicks You Have Trouble Seeing the Mouse Pointer The Mouse Pointer Moves Too Slowly or Too Quickly Repairing Printing Perplexities Windows 98 Reports an Error While Printing You Can't Select the Print Command from an Application's File Menu Part 8: "No Tears" Windows 98 Networking Chapter 26—Working with Network Connections and E-mail A Drive Around the Network Neighborhood Accessing Network Resources Mapping a Network Folder Using a Network Printer Playing Nicely with Others: Sharing Your Resources Sharing Folders and Disk Drives Sharing Printers Using Windows Messaging to Exchange Email Notes Shipping Out an Email Message Getting and Reading Your Mail Further Email Fun Send a Reply Send a Reply to All the Recipients Chapter 27—Keeping In Touch: Mobile Computing with Dial-Up Networking Setting Up a Dial-Up Networking Connection Remote Network Connecting and Disconnecting Using Locations with Dial-Up Networking Accessing Microsoft Mail Remotely Appendix A—Speak Like a Geek: The Complete Archive Return to The Complete Idiot's Guide to Windows 98 home page Copyright © 1995-2008 Paul McFedries and Logophilia Limited