CIG Windows NT: Table of Contents

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Windows NT Workstation 4.0

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - The Least You Need to Know: A quick look at the Windows forest before we start examining all of its trees.
Chapter 2 - Start Me Up: Getting Things Going in Windows NT: A tour of the NT screen and then the basics of starting and playing with programs.
Chapter 3 - Quick Clicks: Using Menus and Toolbars: Those sneaky Windows applications hide most of their features in things like pull-down menus and toolbars. This chapter tells you how to get at 'em.
Chapter 4 - Doing the Dialog Box Thing: The ins and outs of Windows' chatty little beasts: the dialog boxes.
Chapter 5 - Working with Windows NT's Windows: Learn what "windows" are and how to control them (before they start controlling you!).
Chapter 6 - A Few Workaday Document Chores: Mundane—but vital—chores such as opening, saving, editing, and closing documents.
Chapter 7 - Prints Charming: Windows NT Printing: Printing a hard copy of your documents to show off to your colleagues, family, friends, dog, whomever.

Chapter 8 - Two Tractable Tools: Explorer and My Computer: Using Windows NT to explore your machine, and understanding just what the heck are files and folders.
Chapter 9 - Moving, Copying, and Other File Flapdoodle: Fabulous file fun, including copying, moving, renaming, and deleting the poor things.
Chapter 10 - More F-Words: Folders and Floppy Disks: Folder foofaraw such as creating them, copying and moving them, and blowing away ones you don't need. Plus: everything you never wanted to know about floppy disks.

Chapter 11 - Write Angles: Word Processing with WordPad: How to work with WordPad: the little Windows word processor that could.
Chapter 12 - Paint: NT for Your Right Brain: Relive your misspent youth by playing with Paint, the next best thing to finger-painting.
Chapter 13 - Keeping Data Safe and Sound with Backup: Practical strategies and techniques for backing up your precious data.
Chapter 14 - Taking Files on the Road with Briefcase: A neat notebook knickknack that makes it easy to synchronize files between a notebook computer and a desktop computer.
Chapter 15 - More NT Accessories: Windows NT is stuffed with a treasure trove of neat little programs. This chapter introduces you to eight of them: Notepad, Calculator, Date/Time, Clock, Solitaire, FreeCell, Minesweeper, and 3-D Pinball.
Chapter 16 - Sharing Data? OLE Is the Way: Wanna add a Paint picture to your WordPad document? No sweat. This chapter shows you how it's done.
Chapter 17 - The Sights and Sounds of Multimedia: CD-ROMs, sounds, video and much more multimedia madness.
Chapter 18 - Letter Perfect: Fiddling with Fonts: What fonts are and how you can use them to fool everyone into thinking you're a competent professional.

Chapter 19 - Remaking the NT Desktop in Your Own Image: You can have it your way: how to customize the Windows NT desktop to suit your own, inimitable style.
Chapter 20 - Mouse and Keyboard Customization Fun: Tailoring your mouse and keyboard for a perfect fit.
Chapter 21 - Foisting New Programs and Accessories on NT: Got a new hardware doodad or software doohickey? Let Windows NT install it for you.

Chapter 22 - Surf City: Setting Up and Using Your Modem: Getting wired with Windows NT's HyperTerminal program. And, as an added bonus: how to get your modem to dial voice calls!
Chapter 23 - Getting Connected with NT Networking: Some painless network know-how: accessing network goodies, sharing your folders and printers, and more.
Chapter 24 - Reach Out and Touch Some Net: Dial-Up Networking: How to stay connected even when your network is nowhere in sight!
Chapter 25 - NT on the Infobahn: Connecting to the Internet: You’ve heard about it; your friends rave about it; everyone’s surfing the Net but you! Here’s how to use NT to get online.
Chapter 26 - Microsoft Exchange: Your One-Stop Message Shop: At last! Now you can do all your e-mailing and faxing from one, convenient locale: Microsoft Exchange.
Speak Like a Geek: The Complete Archive: A crash course in techno-babble.