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Windows XP in a Nutshell - Errata in the Book
The following is a list of errors and corrections in the first printing of Windows XP in a Nutshell:
- Page 6
- The first row in Table 1-1, the one that begins with "User Accounts," should be removed.
- Page 6
- Table 1-1: the text in the second row, third column, should read:
Single and dual-processor systems are supported.
- Page 7
- Table 1-1: the text in the first row (third overall), second column, should read:
Build-in support for peer-to-peer networking for up to five computers.
- Page 9
- Callout #2 in Figure 2-1 should read "My Network Places lets you browse the local area network."
- Page 14
- Second paragrah - the location of the Startup folder should read \Documents and Settings\{username}\Start Menu\Startup
- Page 15
- Some of the callouts in Figure 2-4 are wrong. The arrows in the picture for items #6, #7, and #8 should be changed as follows:
- should point to the gray area between the scrollbar thumb (current #6) and the down arrow (#5)
- should point to the scrollbar thumb (current #6)
- should point to the up arrow (current #7)
- Page 16
- Third paragraph - change the second sentence so that it reads "The window with the focus is usually (but not always) the one on top of all the other windows, and is usually distinguished by a different border and title color."
- Page 17
- Fifth paragraph - remove the text "as shown in Figure 2-3."
- Page 17
- In the second tip on this page, first line, "Windows XP" should read "Windows."
- Page 21
- The last sentence in the (5) Grayed-out (inactive) controls paragraph should read: "In the dialog box shown in Figure 2-5, the currently selected screensaver doesn't have any applicable settings, so the Settings button is disabled."
- Page 24
- In the fifth paragraph, the sentence that begins with "Additional dots" should read as follows:
Use of additional dots (such as "...") used in some previous versions of Windows are not supported in Windows XP.
- Page 24
- In the last paragraph, the UNC path should should have a double-backslash prefix ("\\shoebox\o..." instead of "\shoebox\o...").
- Page 28
- In the last paragraph, "Like Current Folder" should read "Apply to All Folders"
- Page 38
- In the fifth paragraph, "Password protected" should read "Single-click to open an item"
- Page 39
- First paragraph - "receive input from keyboard" should read "receive input from the keyboard"
- Page 39
- First paragraph - "its inner parameter" should read "its inner parameter (classic style only)"
- Page 43
- Second paragraph - the reference to Figure 3-7 should be to Figure 3-6.
- Page 44
- First bullet item - the text here is correct, but the hockey reference is not. It is indeed possible for more than one person per team to occupy an ice hockey penalty box, each for separate lengths of time.
- Page 44
- Third bullet item; "test in the Address" should read "text in the Address"
- Page 44-45
- The last bullet item under "Clipboard" is redundant and should be removed.
- Page 45
- Figure 3-8 is wrong. The icon and context menu should be of a Recycle Bin.
- Page 51
- Last line - change "masked with asterisks" to "masked with asterisks or dots"
- Page 54
- The "Shortcuts" paragraph should be set apart as a tip.
- Page 75
- Third paragraph in "Tabbed Dialogs" section - change "taps" to "tabs."
- Page 105
- Last sentence under "interactive" - change "since won't be able" to "since you won't be able"
- Page 115
- Table 4-2, second row, last column - change "Clearthe" to "Clear the"
- Page 121
- Fourth buletted item, "secure errors" should be "obscure errors."
- Page 124
- Reference to Appendix C should be to Chapter 6.
- Page 129
- Sixth paragraph - change "it's important understand" to "it's important to understand"
- Page 130
- First paragraph - change "treflistvhe" to "the"
- Page 130
- Fourth paragraph - change "control.exe" to "control"
- Page 132
- Example following first bullet item - change "\stuff\printers and faxes.lnk" to "\stuff\Taskbar and Start Menu.lnk"
- Page 132
- Last bullet - change the colon to a period at the end of the paragraph.
- Page 138
- Second paragraph - change "uninstall device" to "uninstalled device"
- Page 141
- Step 2 - change "Version of the" to "Version on the"
- Page 160
- The last note for File Compare (comp.exe) should read as follows:
- "Regardless of the outcome of the comparison, comp.exe will ask if you want to perform another comparison.
Although there's no way to disable this prompt, you can use the following workaround to bypass it:
echo n | comp file1 file2
- See Chapter 6 for more information on the Echo command."
- Page 161
- At the end of the first paragraph, "Comp.exe" should be "fc.exe."
- Page 182
- Under "put" - change "Transfers local_file from the server to the local machine." to "Transfers local_file from the local machine to the server."
- Page 183
- The prompt is wrong in the example following the sixth bullet - it should read "ftp>lcd a:/"
- Page 190
- Third paragraph - change "distributed on a CD a floppy" or "distributed on a CD or floppy"
- Page 193
- Second paragraph - remove the parenthetical statement "(using your favorite search engine)"
- Page 193
- Last paragraph - change "the pages that addressed in IE" to "the page at that address."
- Page 194
- Fourth paragraph - change "window.However" to "window. However"
- Page 195
- The "Internet Reversi" entry should appear after the "Internet Options" section.
- Page 202
- The URL at the end of the "Java Command-Line Loader" section should be http://www.microsoft.com/java/
- Page 203
- Usage for "Label" - the "label" parameter should appear in italics.
- Page 204
- Second paragraph: "enter current session" should read "end the current session."
- Page 207
- The word "Several" shouldn't be capitalized.
- Page 211
- 1st paragraph, 1st sentence: "then" should be "than"
- Page 212
- Last line under "Shared Folders" - change "access your computer" to "access to your computer"
- Page 222
- The path to open Narrator should end with "Narrator," not "Magnifier."
- Page 223
- First paragraph - change "Announced" to "Announce"
- Page 228
- In the "Connect to the Internet" section, the phrase "Most users want" should read "Most users will want"
- Page 237
- In the second bulletted item on this page, the following note should be added for clarification:
"You can re-import a .pfx file (generated by the /r option) by double-clicking it in Explorer."
- Page 249
- The text "new values" should not be set apart in a mono-spaced font
- Page 265
- Second paragraph, last sentence: "Valuename can also specify the remote" should read "Keyname can also include the name of a remote"
- Page 290
- The "System Properties" section is out of order (alphabetically).
- Page 307
- The first and third occurrences of "Taskkill" in the Description paragraph should read "Tasklist."
- Page 311
- The information discussed in the second and third paragraphs under "User Accounts" applies to both Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional.
- Page 325
- "Windows Messenge" should be "Windows Messenger"
- Page 396
- The fourth example (referring to "...") should removed entirely.
- Page 396
- In the sixth example, the "\d" parameter should read "/d" (use a forward slash instead of a backslash).
- Page 404
- In the "Exit" section, "dir accepts" should be "exit accepts"
- Page 406
- In the examples for the "md" command, "rolling tones" should read "rolling stones"
- Page 407
- The /+n parameter should be +n.
- Page 408
- The last example should be executed from drive D:\>, not drive C:\>, like this:
- D:\>move d:\files myfiles
- Page 418
- The description for the "filename" should read "The name (and optionally, full path) of the file to sort."
- Page 442
- Under "Ports:" the port for newsgroups should be 119.
- Page 457
- Third paragraph, "not using the NTFS file" should read "not using the NTFS file system"
- Page 459
- Third paragraph, "as the shares can be accessed" should read "as the shares cannot be accessed"
- Page 463
- Step 9, first sentence, the text "is not physically attached to the computer" should be removed.
- Page 466
- Last paragraph - the second IP address mentioned here should read 192.168.0.2
- Page 472
- Fourth paragraph, first line: "it's" should be "its"
- Page 484
- Fourth paragraph - "New Value #1" should read "wins"
- Page 486
- First paragraph - remove the text, "as shown in Figure 8-5"
- Page 487
- Third paragraph - change "As shown in Figure 8-1, the top level" to "The top level"
- Page 491
- Fifth paragraph - The sentence, "ShellNew can also contain one or more of the following values:" should be removed.
- Page 505
- In tip #7, "Try something new with My Computer," there's a step missing.
In order for this tip to work, you'll also need to navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ CLSID\ {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\ shell and change the (default) value to open.
- Page 512
- The second prefix in Table 9-2 should read "dat," not "date"
- Page 517
- The showhello code example should read as follows:
Sub showhello(strMessage, strMessage2)
Wscript.Echo strMessage & " " & strMessage2
End Sub
showhello "Hello", "World"
- Page 524
- The registry path immediately after Table 9-8 should read HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\CurrentVersion.
- Page 527
- The code example near the top of the page should read as follows:
'display a popup with yes/no buttons and question mark icon
Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
intValue = objShell.Popup("Do you wish to continue?",,,36)
'test if the Yes button was selected
If intValue = 6
'do something
End If
- Page 533
- The fifth line of the example at the top of the page should read:
If objDrive.IsReady() Then
- Page 539
- The code example is missing a line. The loop should look like this:
Do While Not objRst.EOF
Wscript.Echo objRst("CompanyName")
objRst.MoveNext
Loop
- Page 540
- The registry key in the example should read: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\DefaultProfile.
- Page 552
- 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 555
- The first paragraph on this page discusses the missing My Computer icon on the desktop, but the tip immediately following is wrong. Instead, it should read as follows:
"By default, the My Computer icon is not shown on the Windows XP desktop, but it’s there if you need it. Go to Control Panel -> Display -> Desktop tab -> Customize Desktop, and turn on the My Computer option."
- Page 565
- The second Microsoft Power Toy mentioned here, the Super-Fast User Switcher, has been removed from Microsoft's website, and is no longer available.
Don't worry; it wasn't really that great.
- Page 582
- Although the alphabetical listing of filename extensions is not intended to include every extension in existence, the following extensions should've been included here:
- .pot PowerPoint Template
- .pps PowerPoint Presentation that opens into slide show
- .ppt PowerPoint Presentation (document)
- .pst Outlook personal folder file
- Page 604, Index
- The last item under the letter I in the index, "!IXGEN_DONT_EDIT_THIS," should not appear here.
- Page 609, Index
- The last sub-entry under "programs (applications), "Win 3.1, compatible with Win95" should be removed.
- Page 614, Index
- Page 458 should also be listed under UNC.
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