[...]... music, and video Using Windows XP, it’s easy to play music CDs, copy music from those CDs, and make your own CDs, using Windows Media Player For more information, see 93 About Windows Media Player It’s a snap to use digital cameras and scanners to import pictures, using the Scanner and Camera wizard, as you’ll see in 105 Import Photos from a Digital Camera, and 106 Scan In Photos And Windows Movie Maker... Information Services (IIS) • Domain membership XP Professional PCs can join a domain on a corporate network and use all of the domain’s resources, as well as take advantage of domain features such as centralized security XP Home Edition PCs can’t join domains, but they can use certain domain resources, such as printers KEY TERM Domain—When used in reference to corporate networks, a domain is a group... account For more information, see 8 Turn On Fast User Switching, 9 About Windows XP Shutdowns, and 10 Use Hibernation and Standby 24 PART I: Making Windows XP Work the Way You Want About Windows XP Startup and Login 1 When multiple people share a computer using XP each has her own , separate login, allowing her to customize the operating system exactly the way she wants This is actually a greatly simplified... if you have the original version of Windows XP, you can upgrade to SP-1 and SP-2 by downloading and installing an upgrade The basic functioning and overall look of XP hasn’t changed since its release Instead, smaller, although helpful, changes have been made, such as adding a pop-up blocker to Internet Explorer, and improvements to Windows Internet security • Better tools for working with graphics,... Windows such as Windows Me and Windows 98/95—and the businessoriented Windows NT/2000 versions XP does more than just offer more stability under the hood It also features a far more visually appealing interface and sports more features and more customizability than any other version of Windows Multimedia and graphics have been built directly into the operating system so that it’s far easier to do things such as... such as printers, folders, and corporate applications When you log into a domain on a corporate network, you are automatically given access to all of the domain’s resources The term has a different meaning when used in reference to the Internet On the Internet, a domain is a top-level location such as www samspublishing.com 9 ✔ Start Here • Offline files XP Professional users can copy network files and... Taskbar Start Button Quick Launch Toolbar Notification Area (System Tray) Here’s XP s desktop—what you see when you boot up and log into XP • Notification Area (also called the System Tray) This area of the Taskbar handles several different tasks If Windows sends you alerts for any reason, they’ll show up here (for example, when Windows tells you that an update is available, or there’s a security patch... disk, adding more memory, and so on, you might have to “reactivate” Windows XP You’ll get a warning from XP that you need to reactivate, and you’ll then be led through the reactivation process This happens only when you change a good deal of your hardware, though If you only add a hard disk and extra memory, and add a scanner and printer, for example, you won’t have to reactivate 6 host of security and... Start Button Taskbar Notification Area or System Tray The same, but different: The Windows XP desktop is organized in the same basic way as previous Windows versions, but has a more graphical, up-to-date look 4 Start Here However, there will be a lot that’s unfamiliar as well Window edges are rounded and almost cartoon-like; the Start menu (which you can access by clicking the Start button in the lower-left... buttons, and brighter, richer-looking icons If you prefer the old “classic” style with square buttons and non-3D windows, however, XP will let you revert to it For details, see 11 Change Your Desktop’s Appearance Classic Windows Appearance More Modern Windows XP Appearance Previous versions of Windows include square-looking, two-dimensional windows Windows XP features a much brighter look, richer icons, and . CDs, using Windows Media Player. For more information, see About Windows Media Player. It’s a snap to use digital cameras and scanners to import pictures, using the Scanner and Camera wizard, as. iv v About the Author Preston Gralla is the best-selling author of nearly 30 books that have been translated into 15 languages, including eBay in a Snap, How the Internet Works, How to Expand and. national newspapers and maga- zines, including USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Dallas Morning News (where he was a technol- ogy columnist), and PC Magazine. He was the founding managing editor