Cleaning Windows XP for Dummies

Description

* 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

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.