windows vista all in one desk reference for dummies

by Woody Leonhard
Windows Vista
™
ALL-IN-ONE DESK REFERENCE
FOR
DUMmIES
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Windows Vista
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ALL-IN-ONE DESK REFERENCE
FOR
DUMmIES
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by Woody Leonhard
Windows Vista
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ALL-IN-ONE DESK REFERENCE
FOR
DUMmIES
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About the Author
Curmudgeon, critic, and self-described “Windows Victim,” Woody Leonhard
runs www.AskWoody.com, the Web’s single best source of up-to-the-nanosecond
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your most pressing questions, no-bull analysis of Microsoft’s latest gaffes,
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With several dozen computer books under his belt, Woody knows where the
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man, major Microsoft beta testing site and delights in being a constant thorn
in Microsoft’s side. Along with several coauthors and editors, he’s won an
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“Add”); and twelve talented Thai staff run Khun Woody’s Bakery and its sister

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teenage son, Justin; and their all-American beagle, Chronos.
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and form a queue at the rear of the building.
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Dedication
To Dad, who’s always been there for me.
And to Add, who’s helped me in more ways than I ever thought possible.
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction 1
Book I: A Vista Orientation 9
Chapter 1: Windows 4 N00bs 11
Chapter 2: Vista versus the WinXPerienced 27
Chapter 3: Choosing a Version 35
Chapter 4: Upgrades and Clean Installs 43
Book II: Vista Boot Camp 59
Chapter 1: Running Vista from Start to Finish 61
Chapter 2: Controlling Users 97
Chapter 3: Maintaining Your System 113
Chapter 4: Getting the Basic Stuff Done 147
Chapter 5: Getting Help with Vista 171
Book III: Securing Vista 187
Chapter 1: Lock Down: Spies, Spams, Scams, and Slams 189
Chapter 2: Security Center Overview 217
Chapter 3: Windows Firewall Backward and Forward 225
Chapter 4: Patching and Plugging 249
Chapter 5: Virus Protection and the Big Defender 263
Book IV: Customizing Vista 281
Chapter 1: Personalizing Your Desktop 283

Chapter 2: Organizing Your Vista Interface 303
Chapter 3: Searching on Your Desktop 321
Chapter 4: Beating and Cheating Vista’s Games 333
Book V: Vista on the Internet 345
Chapter 1: Getting the Most from the Internet 347
Chapter 2: Finding Your Way around Internet Explorer (And Firefox) 363
Chapter 3: Making Internet Explorer Your Own 387
Chapter 4: Windows Mail and the Alternatives 399
Chapter 5: Working Together — IM OK, You’re OK 413
Chapter 6: Searching on the Internet 425
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Book VI: Adding Cool Hardware 437
Chapter 1: Finding and Installing the Hardware You Want 439
Chapter 2: iPimping iPods and iTunes 465
Chapter 3: Adding a Second (Or Third) Hard Drive 485
Chapter 4: Picking Printers and Printer/Scanner/Faxers 493
Book VII: Joining the Multimedia Mix 511
Chapter 1: Jammin’ with Windows Media Player 513
Chapter 2: Podcasting 553
Chapter 3: Discovering Digital Cameras 563
Chapter 4: Mugging in the Photo Gallery 581
Chapter 5: Lights! Action! Windows Movie Maker 595
Book VIII: Vista Video 617
Chapter 1: Preparing a Media Center PC 619
Chapter 2: Starting Media Center 631
Chapter 3: Turning On the Tube 641
Chapter 4: Beyond the Media Center Basics 651
Book IX: Setting Up a Vista Network 667
Chapter 1: Those Pesky Network Things You Need to Know 669
Chapter 2: Building Your Network 683

Chapter 3: Putting the Why in Wi-Fi 705
Index 721
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Introduction 1
About This Book 2
Conventions 3
What You Don’t Have to Read 3
Foolish Assumptions 4
Organization 4
Icons 6
Where to Go from Here 7
Book I: A Vista Orientation 9
Chapter 1: Windows 4 N00bs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Hardware and Software 12
Why Do PCs Have to Run Windows? 14
Buying a Computer 14
Inside the big box 15
Screening 17
Managing disks and drives 18
Making PC connections 20
Futzing with sound 22
A Terminology Survival Kit 23
Chapter 2: Vista versus the WinXPerienced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
What You See 27
The Glass UX 27
Improved video effects 27
Sidebar: A truly active desktop 29
What You Get 30
What Stands in the Way 31

Do You Need Windows Vista? 32
Chapter 3: Choosing a Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
The Eightfold Path 35
Versions to Ignore 37
The Final Four 38
Home Basic: Thumbs down 39
Business Edition: Maybe 39
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Home Premium: Usually the sweet spot 41
The Ultimate 41
Windows Live OneCare 41
Chapter 4: Upgrades and Clean Installs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Can Your Computer Handle Vista? 43
Performing a Clean Install 45
Working through the Welcome Center 48
Using Easy Transfer 51
What will transfer 52
Making the transfer 52
Product Activation 54
What If the Wheels Fall Off? 58
Book II: Vista Boot Camp 59
Chapter 1: Running Vista from Start to Finish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
A Few Quick Steps to Make the Desktop Your Own 61
Disabling the Welcome Center 63
Changing the background 64
Enabling the Sidebar 65
Cleaning up useless icons and programs 65
Making the taskbar taller 66

Mousing with Your Mouse 66
Working with Files and Folders 67
Showing filename extensions 69
Sharing folders 71
Recycling 79
Starting with the Start Button 81
Getting Around 84
Using Windows Explorer 84
Working with the Windows taskbar 90
Creating shortcuts 92
Sleep: Perchance to Dream 94
Chapter 2: Controlling Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
Logging On 98
Choosing Account Types 99
Using standard accounts 100
Using administrator accounts 100
Working with User Account Control 101
Disabling User Account Control 104
Adding Users 105
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Enabling the Guest Account 107
Changing Accounts 107
Changing other users’ settings 108
Changing your own settings 110
Switching Users 111
Chapter 3: Maintaining Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Using the Control Panel 113
Removing and Changing Programs 116

Removing Windows Patches 118
Making Backups 118
Using shadow copies/previous versions 120
Creating data backups 122
Restoring backed-up data 127
Ghosting with CompletePC backups 130
Maintaining Drives 131
Running an error check 132
Scheduling cleanups 134
Defragmenting a drive 134
Scheduling the Task Scheduler 134
Zipping and Compressing 139
Compressing with NTFS 141
Zipping the easy way with Compressed (zipped) Folders 142
Creating Checkpoints and Using System Restore 143
Chapter 4: Getting the Basic Stuff Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147
Burning CDs and DVDs 147
Understanding -R and -RW 148
What to burn 149
Mastered or Live File System? 150
Burning with Vista 152
Improving Your Experience Index 158
Getting Word Processing — Free 160
Running Notepad 160
Writing with WordPad 162
Taming the Character Map 164
Calculating — Free 165
Painting 166
Using Sneaky Key Commands 167
Conjuring up the Task Manager 167

Switching coolly 169
Chapter 5: Getting Help with Vista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171
Meeting Windows Help and Support 171
How to Really Get Help 174
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Connecting to Remote Assistance 176
Understanding the interaction 176
Limiting an invitation 177
Troubleshooting Remote Assistance 178
Making the connection 178
Getting the Most from Vista Help 184
Ensuring that you get all the Help 184
Working through the index 185
Getting Help on the Web 186
Book III: Securing Vista 187
Chapter 1: Lock Down: Spies, Spams, Scams, and Slams . . . . . . . . .189
Understanding the Hazards 189
Zombies and botnets 191
Phishing 193
0day exploits 195
Staying Informed 196
Getting Protected 198
Viruses, viruses everywhere 198
Credit card fraud 200
Defending your privacy 202
Keeping cookies at bay 203
Reducing spam 207
Recovering from an Attack 209

Don’t Become Part of the Problem 209
Using Parental Controls 211
Chapter 2: Security Center Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .217
Entering the Security Center 217
Working with the Security Center 219
Scanning for Rootkits 220
Chapter 3: Windows Firewall Backward and Forward . . . . . . . . . . .225
Comparing Firewalls 225
Understanding Vista Firewall’s Basic Features 227
Speaking Your Firewall’s Lingo 229
Peeking into Your Firewall 230
Using Public and Private Networks 231
Establishing a network type 232
Changing network types 233
Changing individual network settings 235
Starting, Stopping, and Goosing Inbound WF 237
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Making Inbound Exceptions 238
Adding a program 240
Adding a port 241
Coping with Vista’s Outbound Firewall 243
Chapter 4: Patching and Plugging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .249
Patching Woes 250
Choosing an Update Level 252
Setting Your Update Level 253
Selectively Patching (A Panacea for Those Woes) 255
Applying patches from Windows Update 256
MS-DEFCON 258

Getting what you need from a Security Bulletin 259
Chapter 5: Virus Protection and the Big Defender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .263
Understanding Antivirus Software 263
The challenges for antivirus software 265
What’s a false positive? 266
Live OneCare and the Safety Center 267
Caring for Your Antivirus Program 270
Downloading and Installing AVG Free 272
Making Windows Acknowledge Your AV Program 274
Dealing with Spyware 276
Book IV: Customizing Vista 281
Chapter 1: Personalizing Your Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .283
Recognizing Desktop Levels 283
Setting Colors in Vista 286
Picking a Background 288
Energizing the Sidebar 289
Changing Sidebar settings 290
Playing with the gadgets 291
Controlling Icons 292
Changing Mouse Pointers 294
Selecting Screen Savers 295
Changing the screen saver 296
Setting up a Super Boss Key 297
Using Desktop Themes 301
Chapter 2: Organizing Your Vista Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .303
Customizing the Start Menu 303
Genesis of the Start menu 304
Pinning to the Start menu 305
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Reclaiming most recently used programs 309
Changing the All Programs menu 311
Showing recent items 314
Making minor tweaks to the Start menu 315
Using the Quick Launch Toolbar 317
Performing a Custom Startup 318
Chapter 3: Searching on Your Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .321
A Brief History of Finds 321
Scanning versus indexing 322
Desktop search 322
Wither, er, whither WinFS 323
Searching Basics 324
Saving and Reusing Searches 330
Chapter 4: Beating and Cheating Vista’s Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .333
Solitaire 334
Standard scoring 335
Vegas scoring 336
FreeCell 337
Spider Solitaire 339
Minesweeper 340
The Other Games 343
Book V: Vista on the Internet 345
Chapter 1: Getting the Most from the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .347
What Is the Internet? 348
Getting Inside the Internet 349
What Is the World Wide Web? 350
Who Pays for All This Stuff? 351
Connecting through Dialup or Broadband Services 353
The last mile 354

Uses and excuses for broadband 355
Setting Up an Internet Connection 357
Finding Internet Reference Tools 359
DSLReports 359
DNSStuff 359
The Wayback Machine 360
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Chapter 2: Finding Your Way around Internet Explorer
(And Firefox) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .363
Exploring Internet Explorer Alternatives 363
Ready, Set, Browse! 365
Changing the default home page 366
Switching the default search service 367
Taking a Walk around the IE Window 367
Surfing with Style 370
Pick a Tab, Any Tab 371
Thwarting Phishers 372
The consequences of anti-phishing 375
Using the Internet Explorer filter 375
Fighting phishing with Firefox 378
Doing Stuff with Web Pages 379
Saving Web pages 379
Printing Web pages 381
Playing Favorites 382
Adding Favorites of your own 383
Organizing your favorites 384
Chapter 3: Making Internet Explorer Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .387
Getting the Most from Internet Explorer (And Firefox) 387

Making IE Run Faster 389
Using Links 391
Dealing with Cookies 393
Blogging with Internet Explorer 393
Working with RSS Feeds 395
Chapter 4: Windows Mail and the Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .399
Choosing an E-Mail Program 399
Getting Started with Windows Mail 402
Conversing with E-Mail 404
Setting up mail accounts 404
Retrieving messages and attachments 405
Creating a message 409
Sending a message 412
Chapter 5: Working Together — IM OK, You’re OK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .413
Exploring the Alternatives 413
Making Windows Live Messenger Work 416
Tweaking Settings in Windows Live Messenger 421
Sharing Folders 422
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Chapter 6: Searching on the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .425
Choosing a Search Engine 425
Changing Search Engines — the Advanced Course 430
Googling Tricks 433
Book VI: Adding Cool Hardware 437
Chapter 1: Finding and Installing the Hardware You Want . . . . . . . .439
Understanding Hardware Types 439
Juggling internal and external devices 440
Choosing an interface 440

Internal interfaces 440
External interfaces 442
Upgrading the Basic Stuff 443
Choosing a new monitor 444
Picking a video adapter 450
Upgrading keyboards 451
Choosing a mouse — or alternatives 452
Key Drives, SuperFetch, and ReadyBoost 454
USB Hubs 457
Installing New Hardware 458
Have the store do it 458
Do it yourself 459
Installing USB hardware 463
Chapter 2: iPimping iPods and iTunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .465
What You Can’t Do 466
iPod the Apple Way 467
Bringing everything up to date 467
Getting iTunes ready to feed your iPod 470
Moving music to your iPod 476
Synching 479
Copying Songs to Your PC 481
The iPod Ecosystem 483
Chapter 3: Adding a Second (Or Third) Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .485
Choosing a Second Hard Drive 485
Interfaces for Disk Drives 486
Installing a New SATA Drive 488
Chapter 4: Picking Printers and Printer/Scanner/Faxers . . . . . . . . . .493
Evaluating Printers 493
Printing photos 494
Considering multifunction devices 494

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Exploring exotic features 495
Making a final decision 496
Installing a Printer 496
Attaching a local printer 497
Connecting a network printer 501
Using the Print Queue 503
Displaying a print queue 504
Pausing and resuming a print queue 505
Pausing, restarting, and resuming a document 506
Canceling a document 506
Troubleshooting 507
Book VII: Joining the Multimedia Mix 511
Chapter 1: Jammin’ with Windows Media Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .513
What You Need to Know about C.R.A.P. 514
Adjusting WMP Privacy Settings 515
Setting options when you install WMP 516
Tweaking options after installation 519
Playing with Now Playing 521
Playback buttons 522
Playing a CD 522
Copying from a CD (Also Known as Ripping) 524
Organizing Your Library 527
Where the Library comes from 527
Leafing through the WMP Library 530
Finding the tracks you want 531
Playing tracks in the Library 534
Nailing Track 6, Unknown Artist, Unknown Album 535

Managing playlists 536
Deleting tracks from the Library 539
Burning CDs 540
Burning an audio CD 541
Burning data CDs and DVDs with Media Player 544
Syncing with a Portable Player 545
Moving tracks to the player 545
Moving tracks from the player to your PC 547
Deleting tracks from your player 548
Choosing a Skin 549
Switching skin modes 549
More skins! 550
Customizing WMP 551
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Chapter 2: Podcasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .553
Understanding Podcasting 553
Finding and Playing Podcasts 555
Publishing Your Own Podcasts 559
Chapter 3: Discovering Digital Cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .563
Choosing a Camera 564
Understanding digital cameras 566
Using conventional cameras 570
Plugging webcams 570
Panning camcorders 571
How to Buy a Camera/Camcorder 572
Moving Images to Your Computer 574
Sharing Your Pictures on the Web 578
Chapter 4: Mugging in the Photo Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .581

Leafing through the Gallery 582
Adding Photos to the Photo Gallery 583
Using Vista’s Picture and Video Import program 584
Copying to the Pictures folder 584
Adding photos from a different folder 585
Finding Pictures 586
Looking by location 586
Skipping through tags 587
Touching Up Pictures 590
Chapter 5: Lights! Action! Windows Movie Maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . .595
Introducing Windows Movie Maker 596
Gathering Clips 598
Assembling a Movie 599
Creating a project 599
Playing a clip or a movie 601
Viewing the storyboard and timeline 602
Trimming a clip 603
Making transitions and adding effects 604
Splitting and combining clips 605
Typing titles 606
Using sound clips 608
Importing clips from other sources 610
Publishing the Movie 611
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