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ALL-IN-ONE DESK REFERENCE

FOR

DUMmIES

‰

2 ND EDITION

by Mark L. Chambers

PCs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies ® 2nd Edition

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About the Author

Mark L. Chambers has been an author, com-

puter consultant, BBS sysop, programmer, and

hardware technician for more than 20 years.

(In other words, he’s been pushing computers

and their uses far beyond “normal” perform-

ance limits for decades now.) His first love

affair with a computer peripheral blossomed

in 1984 when he bought his lightning-fast

300 Bps modem for his Atari 400 — and now

he spends entirely too much time on the Internet and drinks far too much

caffeine-laden soda.

His favorite pastimes include collecting gargoyles, following St. Louis

Cardinals baseball, playing his three pinball machines and the latest com-

puter games, supercharging computers, and rendering 3-D flights of fancy

with TrueSpace — and during all that, he listens to just about every type of

music imaginable. (For those of his readers who are keeping track, he’s up

to 1,200+ audio CDs in his collection.)

With a degree in journalism and creative writing from Louisiana State

University, Mark took the logical career choice and started programming

computers. However, after five years as a COBOL programmer for a hospital

system, he decided that there must be a better way to earn a living, and he

became the Documentation Manager for Datastorm Technologies, a well-

known communications software developer. Somewhere in between organiz-

ing and writing software manuals, Mark began writing computer books; his

first book, Running a Perfect BBS , was published in 1994.

Along with writing several books a year and editing whatever his publishers

throw at him, Mark has recently branched out into Web-based education,

designing and teaching a number of online classes — called WebClinics — for

Hewlett-Packard.

Mark’s rapidly expanding list of books includes Building a PC For Dummies,

Scanners For Dummies, CD and DVD Recording For Dummies, Mac OS X All-in-

One Desk Reference For Dummies, Microsoft Office v. X Power User’s Guide,

BURN IT! Creating Your Own Great DVDs and CDs, The Hewlett-Packard Official

Printer Handbook, The Hewlett-Packard Official Recordable CD Handbook, The

Hewlett-Packard Official Digital Photography Handbook, Computer Gamer’s

Bible, Recordable CD Bible, Teach Yourself the iMac Visually, Running a Perfect

BBS, Official Netscape Guide to Web Animation, and the Windows 98

Troubleshooting and Optimizing Little Black Book.

His books have been translated into 12 different languages so far — his

favorites are German, Polish, Dutch, and French. Although he can’t read

them, he enjoys the pictures a great deal.

Mark welcomes all comments and questions about his books — you can

reach him at mark@mlcbooks.com or visit him at MLC Books Online (his Web

site) at www.mlcbooks.com .

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my daughter in-between, Chelsea Chambers —

fashion designer, mathematician, and audiophile — with all my love.

Author’s Acknowledgments

Books don’t produce themselves — and no book that I’ve written is complete

without a round of sincere thanks (and applause) that’s due to everyone

involved!

First, my appreciation to my technical editor, Vinay Veeramachaneni, who

spent weeks checking every fact and verifying every menu choice in this

book. I do a lot of technical editing myself, and I can tell you that it’s no

simple task to wade through this many chapters . . . it takes a combination of

long nights and lots of soda.

This is my second All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies volume, and again,

the Wiley Composition Services team has outdone itself in designing and

preparing the material. All the beautiful formatting in this book (including

every single figure and screen shot, all the step-by-step procedures, and the

regular appearances of Mark’s Maxims) is a testament to this team’s hard

work.

As with all my books, I’d like to thank my wife, Anne, and my children, Erin,

Chelsea, and Rose, for their support and love — and for letting me follow my

dream!

And I won’t forget the support, the patience, and the guidance of Tiffany

Franklin, my Acquisitions Editor, and Linda Morris, my Project Editor. Tiffany,

I hope I kept any headaches to a minimum, even with a tome this size. And

Linda, you deserve a parade for helping me deliver two monster books in a

row! My heartfelt thanks to you both.

What can I tell you about the best copy editor on the planet? Teresa Artman

scrutinized the entire manuscript with the perfect combination of tenacity

and precision . . . and as a result, you can actually understand what I was

trying to communicate. Her humor and invaluable editing skills are reflected

in every paragraph of this book, and she should run for President!

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