When customizing desktop icons, you have wording to include "Internet Explorer"
as a desktop icon. This is no longer valid in Windows Vista, without creating a
shortcut to iexplorer.exe. Unfortunately the only place IE is shown is in the quick
launch toolbar and the Start Menu.

Where is there the reference to Figure 1-2?

Its content explains essential features of the new Deskop rather than AERO. So, its context
is obsucre immediately after the stress of new features of AERO.

"Just type the first few letters of a program's a folder's name"

May want to add an "or" to the sentence.

Also, you would type the first letter not the first few letters.

Figure 1-5 doesn't explain hierarchical structure in the All Program menu, but it illustrates
how to use Startup, as 5th line of page 30 desginates.

Web page www.sysinfo.org/startupinfo.htlm concerning list of startup software and instructions for turning it off in the startup folder does not exist. I tried 07/23/09

The tip at the end of the section on how to lock your computer says how to lock your computer using the keyboard only by pressing this sequence: Logo key, right arrow key (twice), Enter key. The easier keystroke (to remember and type) is simply: Logo key, letter L.

If a user is only one and administrator at once, Personal Folder doesn't appear.

The bottom of Figure 1-8 may confuse readers, because some commands are effective but
others are useless or ineffective.
They are 'ipconfig', 'ipconfig / all', 'ipconfig / all | more'.
These commands are a part of "cmd", so "cmd" must be executed at first.
Also the 'c' isn't appropriate, as long as it's a normal folder's name.
As 'c' is a root folder usually, typing 'c:\' is interpreted correctly.
Other examples functions well as long as a folder with same name may not exist in other partitions.

Path doesn't use 'slash', but 'backslash' shown as the example while URL address uses 'slash'.
It can confuse beginners easily.

You can't pin a folder 'above the line' in Start Menu by right-clicking the Start Menu in Explore -- it creates a folder, but in All Programs, which is not really the visibility you are looking for.

You can achieve this by creating a shortcut to the folder and then dragging it to the Start Menu and placing it where you want.

The section of the Navigation Pane section that talks about how to remove an icon from the Navigation Pane. The last line reads "you've just unhitched its |alias| from the Navigation pane." It should read "unhitched its |shortcut| from the Navigation pane", since Windows PCs call them shortcuts and Macs call them aliases.

In Windows Vista For Starters, p. 68 refers to a "Cool slo-mo trick" in Appendix B. I could not
find an Appendix B, only the Appendix as such (with no letter following) and the slo-mo trick is
not in the index. I checked several times.

The last paragraph says that "The checkboxes below the calendar offer one-click access to photos taken earlier this week, earlier this year, and before the beginning of this year (a long time ago.)" The picture shows different categories, though: Unspecified, Sometime in the future, Today, and A long time ago. Either the picture or the wording should be modified.

To open a property box, the menu command is prepared: Organize->Properties.

When dragging a mouse diagonally, the created rectangle is not dotted-line, but normal blue line filled
with transparent light blue.

These two panes enable copy and move of folders and files mutually. The expamle explaned is from left pane
to right, while move or copy from right pane to left is possible.
It might be handier from left to right because dragging on a little icon is not so easy. If hesitating for
a mement, another inner folder within the target folder could be an undesirable destination folder because
Windows interpretes dragging on a folder of the right pane for a second as opening this hierarchical
folder.

The keystroke of shortcuts is a fantastic feature, but works well only if they are on the desktop.
Even when opening the Start Menu and putting them into it, shortcut keystroke does not launch it.
In this case the Start Menu is opened by right-clicking the Start icon.
Therefore, the full exploitation of this feature might make the Desktop a mess.

Text suggests that a user turn off Tablet PC Optional components if computer doesn't have a touch screen.
User should note that turning off this component also disables the Snipping Tool!

Double-clicking a date number makes a new schedule.

Dragging every point of an appointment sticker can move it. So, Month View enables an appointment to move
to another day without the colored ?grip?.

Besides local and network printers, shared printers are often used on home networks. The wizard for network printers will not find a shared printer.

To connect to a shared printer
go to Start -> Network and open the PC that has the printer.
Right click on the printer and select Connect
Log on, if requested.
Go to Control Panel -> Printers and see that the shared printer is now listed.
Right click on the shared printer and select properties. Print a test page.
Right click on the shared printer and make it the default printer.

Remeber to turn on the PC that is wired to the printer before trying to print.

I believe that this is correct. It worked for me.

Peter Liddell

States to right-click the icon of the network connection. Should be select adapter
properties.

Not all registry files are marked as invisible: ntuser.dat is, not the files in
C:WindowsSystem32config. In addition to backups, writes are done using atomic transactions.