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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 "Corrected".

The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.


Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question



Version Location Description Submitted By 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..."

Anonymous  Sep 1997
Printed Page 14
made the para. under "Solution 2" bulleted

Anonymous  Sep 1997
Printed Page 24
3rd para. under "Notes and other issues", line 2: put "My

Computer" in bold

Anonymous  Sep 1997
Printed Page 29
line of code amongst bullets: removed space between "System,"

and "1"

Anonymous  Sep 1997
Printed Page 56-57
removed the icons after "Chapter 4", "Chapter 6", and

"Chapter 7"

Anonymous  Sep 1997
Printed Page 68
changed "Empty Recycle Bin" to "Recycle Bin"

Anonymous  Sep 1997
Printed Page 75-76
indented the code that spans these pages (put it in

CodeIndent format)

Anonymous  Sep 1997
Printed Page 107
in the 1st and last paras, took "Start Menu" out of boldface

Anonymous  Sep 1997
Printed Page 109
1st bullet: took "Start Menu" out of boldface

Anonymous  Sep 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)

Anonymous  Sep 1997
Printed Page 115
last bullet item: put "Not Selected" in bold

Anonymous  Sep 1997
Printed Page 116
next to "Using the Third Mouse Button", removed the

square dingbat that indicated NT

Anonymous  Oct 1997
Printed Page 116
next to "Using the Third Mouse Button", removed the

square dingbat that indicated NT

Anonymous  Nov 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)

Anonymous  Sep 1997
Printed Page 128
made the 1st and second text paras bulleted

Anonymous  Sep 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"

Anonymous  Sep 1997
Printed Page 176
2nd para. under "Modems", line 3: put "AT" in constant width

font

Anonymous  Sep 1997
Printed Page 178
removed square icon after last heading

Anonymous  Sep 1997
Printed Page 179
removed "Windows 95 only" heading

Anonymous  Sep 1997
Printed Page 209
indented the bulleted items

Anonymous  Sep 1997
Printed Page 210
indented these bulleted items, too

Anonymous  Sep 1997
Printed Page 217
made the first text para. bulleted

Anonymous  Sep 1997
Printed Page 218
bullet item -3: put "01,00,00,00" in constant width font

Anonymous  Sep 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)

Anonymous  Sep 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.

Anonymous  Sep 1997
Printed Page 287
changed "The use these" to "They use these"

Anonymous  Oct 1997
Printed Page 287
changed "The use these" to "They use these"

Anonymous  Nov 1997