The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
| Version |
Location |
Description |
Submitted By |
Date Submitted |
Date Corrected |
| Printed |
Page x
removed the "uunet!" line, removed both instances of "(via the |
Internet)" and changed both remaining instances of "ora.com" to
"oreilly.com"; in the Acknowledgements (which continue onto p. xi):
changed "1.6 million visitors" to "2.2 million visitors", changed
"Avrach" to "Avruch", and moved everything from "Thanks also to
everyone who worked on production..." to "as well as everyone else who
worked on this book" to be before the sentence that starts "Finally,
this book would never have..."
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 14
made the para. under "Solution 2" bulleted |
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 24
3rd para. under "Notes and other issues", line 2: put "My |
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 29
line of code amongst bullets: removed space between "System," |
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 56-57
removed the icons after "Chapter 4", "Chapter 6", and |
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 68
changed "Empty Recycle Bin" to "Recycle Bin" |
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 75-76
indented the code that spans these pages (put it in |
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 107
in the 1st and last paras, took "Start Menu" out of boldface |
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 109
1st bullet: took "Start Menu" out of boldface |
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 113
moved footnote into parens after the last heading, so that now |
there aren't any footnotes on the page and the heading reads:
Solution 2: For Windows 95 (Use with caution, and only if Solution 1
doesn't work)
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 115
last bullet item: put "Not Selected" in bold |
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 116
next to "Using the Third Mouse Button", removed the |
square dingbat that indicated NT
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Anonymous |
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Oct 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 116
next to "Using the Third Mouse Button", removed the |
square dingbat that indicated NT
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Anonymous |
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Nov 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 126
moved footnote into parens after the second heading, so that |
now there aren't any footnotes on the page and the heading reads:
Part 3: Virtual cache (Only if you have 16 megabytes of RAM or more)
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 128
made the 1st and second text paras bulleted |
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 144
indented the bulleted items under "Speed up system bootup" |
also, in the 1st line under "Remove DriveSpace..." heading, changed
"DrivSpace" to "DriveSpace"
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 176
2nd para. under "Modems", line 3: put "AT" in constant width |
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 178
removed square icon after last heading |
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 179
removed "Windows 95 only" heading |
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 209
indented the bulleted items |
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 210
indented these bulleted items, too |
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 217
made the first text para. bulleted |
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 218
bullet item -3: put "01,00,00,00" in constant width font |
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 233
indented code lines 5, 7, and 9 so they start under the "of" in |
"Microsoft" (to make it clear that they are really continuations of
the previous code lines)
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 287
new About the Author as follows |
David A. Karp, a graduate from the University of California at
Berkeley in Mechanical Engineering, is a specialist in user-interface
design and computer-based training. He currently consults on internet
technology, web site production, and software engineering. He has
written for a number of magazines, most recently for Windows Sources.
He created the Windows95 Annoyances web site, the catalyst for this
book. David initiated the web site as an early beta tester of
Windows95, and by the time the product was released, the site was
widely cited as one of the best technical resources on the web. Noted
recognition includes PC Computing magazine, Yahoo! Computing, Windows
Magazine, and the San Francisco Examiner.
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Anonymous |
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Sep 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 287
changed "The use these" to "They use these" |
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Anonymous |
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Oct 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 287
changed "The use these" to "They use these" |
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Anonymous |
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Nov 01, 1997 |