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Cleaning Windows XP For Dummies

AUTHOR: Allen Wyatt
ISBN: 076457549X
SHORT DESCRIPTION: This wide-ranging guide helps ordinary users fight back against Windows slowdowns, glitches, and annoyances. Packed with savvy tips for decluttering a system, it shows how to speed up access to programs and data, customize the interface, root out...

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Cleaning Windows XP For Dummies
- Book Review, by Allen Wyatt

Book 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

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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

From the Back Cover
Streamline your system and safeguard your computer Eliminate unused programs, organize data, dump stale cookies, and pick up speed If you can brew a pot of coffee while your programs load, it’s time to clean the Windows! Here's how to clear out stuff you don't need, create an orderly desktop, scrub away Internet gunk, and keep your system clutter-free by setting up a regular cleaning schedule. Through sparkling clean Windows, you’ll see faster, safer computing that’s a lot more fun. The Dummies Way Explanations in plain English "Get in, get out" information Icons and other navigational aids Tear-out cheat sheet Top ten lists A dash of humor and fun Discover how to: Make your programs run faster Archive old data and remove duplicate files Eliminate spyware and adware Manage Internet information safely Shut down unused services Optimize Service Pack 2's security features

About the Author
Allen Wyatt, an internationally recognized expert in small computer systems, is president of Discovery Computing, Inc., a computer and publishing services company located in Mesa, Arizona. He has worked in the computer and publishing industries for almost two decades, writing more than 50 books and numerous magazine articles. Allen’s popular lectures and seminars have reached audiences throughout the United States, as well as throughout Mexico and Costa Rica.
Besides writing books and technical materials, Allen helps further the computer book industry by providing consulting, production, and project management services. He publishes two free weekly newsletters, WordTips and ExcelTips (www.VitalNews.com).
Allen can be reached by e-mail at awyatt@dcomp.com.

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Book Review

Cleaning Windows XP For Dummies
- Book Reviews, by Allen Wyatt

Cleaning Windows XP For Dummies (For Dummies Series)

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The Barnes & Noble Review
Over time, your Windows PC gets cluttered with crud. It slows down. You have more trouble finding stuff. You crash more often. You could even get commandeered into some zombie network sending Spam all over the planet -- hey, it￯﾿ﾽs happening to 30,000 people a day. You gotta clean your PC. This book shows how.

It￯﾿ﾽll help you get at the programs you need more easily. It￯﾿ﾽll help you get rid of the software that￯﾿ﾽs slowing down your computer right now, without your knowledge. You￯﾿ﾽll clean up all those stray emails. You￯﾿ﾽll haul out the garbage web sites keep leaving on your PC. You￯﾿ﾽll even get your data under control -- finally!

Things just feel better when they￯﾿ﾽre neat, clean, fast. Isn￯﾿ﾽt it time your PC felt that way again? Bill Camarda

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2003 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.

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If you can brew a pot of coffee while your programs load, it's time to clean the Windows! Here's how to clear out stuff you don't need, create an orderly desktop, scrub away Internet gunk, and keep your system clutterfree by setting up a regular cleaning schedule. Through sparkling clean Windows, you'll see faster, safer computing that's a lot more fun.

SYNOPSIS

Streamline your system and safeguard your computer

Eliminate unused programs, organize data, dump stale cookies, and pick up speed

If you can brew a pot of coffee while your programs load, it’s time to clean the Windows! Here's how to clear out stuff you don't need, create an orderly desktop, scrub away Internet gunk, and keep your system clutter-free by setting up a regular cleaning schedule. Through sparkling clean Windows, you’ll see faster, safer computing that’s a lot more fun.

The Dummies Way Explanations in plain English "Get in, get out" information Icons and other navigational aids Tear-out cheat sheet Top ten lists A dash of humor and fun

Discover how to: Make your programs run faster Archive old data and remove duplicate files Eliminate spyware and adware Manage Internet information safely Shut down unused services Optimize Service Pack 2's security features

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