The XP Files: Windows' Hidden Tools for Secure Sharing, Communication, and Collaboration - Softcover

Hart-Davis, Guy

9780072224016: The XP Files: Windows' Hidden Tools for Secure Sharing, Communication, and Collaboration

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072224010 ISBN 13: 9780072224016

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2002

Microsoft has installed free, but mostly hidden, Internet communication programs on every Windows computer. This book shows how to use Microsoft's Internet tools: NetMeeting, Windows Messenger, Outlook Express with Hotmail, HyperTerminal, and Phone Dialer. Step-by-step instructions illustrated with b&w screenshots explain how to chat with anyone in public or private, make free worldwide voice and video conference calls, use unrestricted file sharing, and build free online communities. The author has written 20 computer books. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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From the Back Cover:

XP's Best-Kept Secrets--Revealed!

During the past decade, Microsoft has created the some of the best Internet communication programs in the world and has installed them on every Windows computer--free, but mostly hidden. Until now, only a few knowledgeable computer users knew how to exploit the potential of these programs--and understood the threats posed by the programs that Microsoft encouraged people to use. Now you're about to become one of the power users who knows how to harness the power of Microsoft's powerful Internet tools: NetMeeting, Windows Messenger, Outlook Express with Hotmail, HyperTerminal, and Phone Dialer. By reading this book, you'll learn to:

Chat with dozens of people at a time--securely--without any possibility of eavesdroppers
Share any photo, document, or program with friends or family anywhere
Save hundreds of dollars a month on phone bills! Talk with voice and video to as many as 6 people at once--anywhere in the world
Send live video feeds from your computer to your friends and family
Exchange MP3 files, or any file, with any other Internet user--securely
Protect your computer and Internet connection from human predators, viruses, and worms
Set up and manage as many personal e-mail accounts as you need--and protect each against spam and undesirable e-mailers
Create whiteboard drawings that scores of other users can see, change, and comment on--simultaneously
Choose the best Internet connection for your needs, and share it with your household
Understand the threat that Microsoft's .NET Passport and associated technologies pose to your privacy and security--and defeat it

About the Author:

Guy Hart-Davis (Richmond, UK), the former associate publisher in charge of Sybex's certification group, is now a freelance author living in his native England. Guy is the author or co-author of 20 computer books, as well as a contributor to numerous others.

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