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Windows XP Annoyances - Errata in the Book
The following is a list of errors and corrections in the first printing of Windows XP Annoyances:
- Page 12
- Last paragraph - remove both references to Figure 2-1. (The figure shows the View tab, discussed on the next page).
- Page 16
- Second paragraph - change "Explorere.exe" to "Explorer.exe."
- Page 23
- First paragraph (under "/select") - the word "subobject" should appear italicized (replaceable style).
- Page 24
- The caption for Figure 2-2 should read: "Right-click the Start button for quick access to the current user’s Start Menu folder."
- Page 38
- The filename in step 3, "filename.ext," should appear italicized (replaceable style).
- Page 42
- Second paragraph - "See Part 4" should read "See Part 3"
- Page 43
- The heading "Part 4: Search tips" should read "Part 3: Search tips"
- Page 45
- Third paragraph, last line - "foldres" should read "folders"
- Page 46
- Figure 2-5: "fincances" should read "finances"
- Page 47
- Second-to-last paragraph - "recepticle" should read "receptacle"
- Page 47
- Second-to-last line - "foldres" should read "folders"
- Page 48
- First paragraph - "cutsy" should read "cutesy"
- Page 50
- Second paragraph - "along the" should read "alongside the"
- Page 52
- Step 4 - change "created with the" to "created without the"
- Page 53
- Third paragraph - "PowerSchemes" should read "Power Schemes" and "tab" should not be bold.
- Page 54
- Second-to-last paragraph - change "titlbar" to "titlebar"
- Page 61
- Second paragraph - change "Mantenance" to "Maintenance"
- Page 64
- Last paragraph - change "Figure 2-8 shows" to "Figures 2-8 and 2-10 show"
- Page 69
- Third paragraph - change "there's on a single" to "there's a single"
- Page 70
- First heading - "versus." should read "vs."
- Page 90
- Second-to-last paragraph - there should be no spaces in the filename "e:\big_program"
- Page 94
- The text in the tip that follows step 3 should read:
You can also save Registry patches for use in earlier versions of Windows right in the Registry Editor. Go to File -> Export, and then choose Win9x/NT 4 Registration Files from the Save as type list.
- Page 96
- The font used for the text, "Chapter 4," in the footnote is too large.
- Page 140
- The caption under Figure 4-12 mentions the "default View option." This text should read, "default Preview option."
- Page 156
- There's a necessary step missing. After step 7, type the following to activate the folder shortcut:
cd ..
attrib +s "dingus"
where dingus is the name of the folder (include the quotes).
- Page 174
- First paragraph header - change "Clean our" to "Clean out"
- Page 185
- The last sentence of the NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate section should read:
You can stop Windows from updating the "last accessed" date for folders every time they're opened by changing this value to 1 (the default is zero), which should improve drive performance.
This setting has no effect on files.
- Page 192
- The LargeSystemCache listvariable should be in constant-width font.
- Page 201
- Fifth line of the "A Word About Native Resolution" sidebar - there's an errant comma here. The text should read, "to display other, lower resolutions, either"
- Page 242
- Second paragraph - change "responded" to "respond."
- Page 277
- The last sentence (only) of the second paragraph under "Keyboards" (which refers Appendix B) should read as follows:
This can be done by setting the appropriate option in your BIOS (see Appendix B), but you may also have to set the InitialKeyboardIndicators Registry value, found in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard, to 0 for off or 2 for on.
- Page 282
- First paragraph - change "306GB" to "30GB"
- Page 284
- Last paragraph - "euphamism" should read "euphemism"
- Page 356
- The Local Users and Groups utility is only included with Windows XP Professional.
Users of Windows XP Home will have to make do with the first two tools discussed in this section.
- Page 375
- Add the following to Step 3 under "Hide the last-typed username:"
If the value exists, it may be a DWORD value. Either value type is supported here.
- Page 397
- The RunProgram subroutine (the last four lines in Example 9-1) is wrong. It should read the same as the RunProgram subroutine on the top of page 400.
- Page 466
- Second paragraph - change "you won't be able to access your from from" to "you won't be able to access your hard disk from"
- Page 467
- In the first paragraph in the "Activating Windows XP" section, the word "wasn't" should be "weren't."
- Page 474
- When typing any of the SET commands on this page, there should be spaces before and after each of the equals signs; otherwise, you'll receive a "syntax error" message.
- Page 474
- Add the following note to the end of the page:
You may encounter an error to the effect that the Set command is currently disabled; unfortunately, this can only be fixed by returning to Windows and following this procedure:
- Start the Local Security Settings editor (secpol.msc).
- Navigate to \Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options in the tree.
- Double-click the Recovery Console: Allow floppy copy and access to all drives and all folders entry.
- Click Enabled and then click Ok.
- Close the Local Security Settings editor when you're done.
- Return to the Recovery Console and try again.
- Page 513
- "IDE Controller" entry - remove extra period at end of paragraph.
- Page 518
- "right-click a a file" should be "right-click a file"
- Page 520
- The errant "stet" entry should be removed entirely. In it's place, the following should appear:
set [variable=[string]]
When used without any arguments, displays a list of active environment variables (described in See "Variables and the Environment," later in this appendix). The set command is also used to assign data to environment variables.
- Index
- There are a few errant entries in the index that will be removed in the next printing.
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