Introduction
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About the E-book The CD-ROM in the back of this book contains the entire text of the book as a set of several hundred interlinked Web pages that you can display with Internet Explorer or any other Web browser. Our goal is for the e-book edition on the CD-ROM to be your reference and tutorial companion as you use your Windows system.
For instance, as you read in Chapter 33 about disk management and you want to know more about how to recover from faults and crashes, you can click a link on the e-book Chapter 33 to jump to that material. The e-book makes it easy to follow links from topic to topic until you get the information you need--without flipping to the back of the book to consult the index.
Wherever the book says "See Chapter so-and-so," the e-book has a link that you can follow with a single click. In the printed book, we refer you to related information by saying "see Chapter 18" or referring to other sections in the current chapter. The e-book has been coded--using Web-style hyperlinks--to provide references to related topics. When you read the e-book, you can click links to jump directly to the section of the book that contains the related information.
We've also added other useful links both within the book and to external resources on the World Wide Web. For example, if Microsoft's Web site has more information about a topic, we provide you with a clickable link to the page you want. We also provide Internet addresses for companies that provide Windows-compatible products and information. The book also has its own Web site (at http://net.gurus.com/winxptcr) where you'll find the latest Windows XP information we think you'll find useful.
The key to the e-book is the electronic Glossary page that you'll find one click away from the CD's opening screen. This Glossary provides an alphabetical list of Windows-related and Internet-related terms, each linking to the section of the book that introduces that concept. To learn about a topic, find the term in the glossary and follow the link into the text.