CLASS 4
If we have time, the follow is today's lession.
1. Review
2. Administration/Computer Manager
3. Administration/Service
4. Mail
- Multi Sent
- CC & BCC
- Export Contact
If we have time, the follow is today's lession.
1. Review
2. Administration/Computer Manager
3. Administration/Service
4. Mail
Because so much IP numbers have to remember, someone invented a techology to get them easily: DNS.
DNS is "Domain Name System" or "Domain Name Service".
Just like human society, everyone have a unique ID number. You can take it as IP number. And everyone maybe have English Name, Chinese Name, Nickname, or something be called. You can take it as Domain Name. DNS is invented for remembering easily.
For Example: www.ibm.com
What is IP?
IP is Internet Protocol. It is defined for INTERNET. In the internet, every computer connected to internet has uniqui ID number. We call it IP. It was seperated by dot ( . ) and combined by 4 numbers. Each number's value is between 0 and 255. Like the follow:
168.95.1.1 correct
66.94.230.34 correct
61.270.20.17 wrong
continue....
This site is a nice place to know what I should to do and what resources we could use.
I download Spybot to search, and found many spywares. It suggest something about protecting your PC.
Take a look!
The Spyware Warrior List of Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites
the other I think cool:
HOME PC Firewall Guide
I found it from internet. Take it as references...
From: The Computer Guy
Windows XP Service Pack 2
Microsoft has released service pack 2 for Windows XP and it is available for download using Windows Update. Service Pack 2 provides Windows XP with a “Windows Security Center”, and other key tools, to help protect the user’s system from unsafe attachments and downloads. This type of protection helps to prevent viruses and Trojans from slipping onto a user’s system and wreaking the type of havoc that has become an increasing problem in recent years.
Firewall
A software based firewall is included with Service Pack 2, intended to protect the system from access by unauthorized individuals on the internet or local network. The firewall is activated automatically by Windows, but users have the option to disable it.
New Version of Internet Explorer
With Service Pack 2, Internet Explorer now features an integrated pop up blocker to help reduce, if not fully eliminate, the presence of ads. Configurable from Internet Explorer’s “Tools” tab, users can customize their preferences and even turn the pop up blocker off. Considering most pop up blockers require a special toolbar or other application be installed, this one is extremely convenient and easy to use.
Wireless Networking
The way a user connects their system to a wireless network has been greatly simplified via enhancements found in SP2. The “Wireless Network Setup Wizard” will lead a user of any expertise through the installation process, and the “Microsoft Broadband Network Utility” will help them monitor and maintain the network just as easily. Application of security settings is obviously a main component of these improvements, insuring that the user’s system is protected
Conclusion
The release of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP brought about many more changes to the operating system than listed above, all of which have to be seen as welcome improvements. With a focus on security and protecting the end user’s computer system, I think there are enough good reasons to take the plunge and let Windows Update install SP2.
Enable XP SP2's "Show Updates" Option One change made by SP2 is the new feature that lets you see the updates that have been installed for your application programs. This is handy for keeping up with the patch status of your programs, but you need to enable it. Here's how:
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To remove updates, do the following:
Depending on how you set it up, XP may have reserved a substantial amount of your CPU horsepower for things like animating various desktop elements, placing shadows under menus and cursors, and rounding the upper corners of open windows. In the aggregate, these visual effects can slow down screen-drawing operations significantly. Also, XP may have selected a "color depth" for your video system in excess of what you really need; this, too, can slow down screen operations.
To adjust the color depth, right click anywhere on an empty portion of your desktop and select Properties/Settings. For most normal business users, the Color Quality setting should be set to Medium (16 bit). Higher settings do matter in photo/video editing and similar applications, but for mundane things like Web browsing, E-mail, and word processing, the Medium setting is fully adequate, and it's faster.
You can easily change the folder view to something more restrained, space-efficient, and useful.
Open My Documents. In the View menu, select Status Bar, List, and Arrange Icons by Name. Next, right click on an empty spot in the My Documents toolbar and select Customize. Choose any of the Available Toolbar Buttons you wish and click Add. Exit the dialog.
Right click on an empty spot in the Task Bar (the bar next to the Start button). Uncheck Lock the Taskbar. This lets you resize various portions of the taskbar the way you want them. Now, explore the other Taskbar settings to see if any will work for you.
One I always select is Toolbars/Desktop. I place the new Desktop toolbar far to the right on the Taskbar, over by the clock area. Whenever I want access to something on the Desktop that's covered with open windows, I can use this new Desktop toolbar as a shortcut to get to the item on the Desktop without having to close or move any open window.
By default, XP wants to contact the Microsoft servers to auto-search for patches, downloads, and updates. It also wants to send Microsoft information about any crashes you experience. The former can be an annoyance if the auto-update cycle kicks in at an inopportune time. The latter is a potential security hole, because the crash-reporting information includes a mini-dump of XP's memory contents; it can include snippets of open documents, passwords you've recently typed, and so on.
You can turn off both behaviors by right clicking on My Computer, selecting Properties, and first choosing the Automatic Updates tab. Select either Turn Off or, Notify me.
Now select the “Advanced” tab and click on “Error Reporting”. Check "Disable error reporting," but leave "notify me when critical errors occur" checked
By default, both the Recycle Bin and Internet Explorer's Cache want to consume ridiculous amounts of your hard drive space. Right click on the Recycle Bin, select Properties, and on the Global tab, decide how much space you want the Recycle Bin to consume, either for all drives in your system, or on a per-drive basis. (It's a percentage of the total space. I adjust the slider way to the left, so I'm using "only" a few hundred megs of space for trash.)
Similarly, open Internet Explorer, and select Tools/Internet Options. Under Temporary Internet Files, click the Settings button and select a reasonable size for this cache area. Generally speaking, if you have a fast connection, 5 Mbytes to 10 Mbytes is adequate; 25 Mbytes or so is usually enough with a slower dial-up connection.
Windows XP remembers your recently opened documents and puts those files in the My Recent Documents menu in the Start menu. This is a useful feature because it allows you to get to stuff you recently opened. Odds are that if you opened a file recently, you're going to open it again! Visiting the My Recent Documents menu speeds up accessing those files you open the most. The problem is other people can see what you've been looking at recently, too! Maybe you opened something recently you don't want anyone to know you've opened. Here's how you clear the list:
Now when you go to the start menu, you'll see your My Recent Documents folder is gone! Don't worry. It will come back when you start opening documents.
The Windows page file is a portion of the hard disk used for virtual memory - that is, swapping information in and out of physical memory (RAM) so the applications have more usable memory than is actually installed. The information in the page file is not needed when you shut down, since information in RAo so in Windows XP Pro by performing the following stM is lost when the computer is turned off. The page file can be quite large, so if you want to be sure it's cleared at shutdown to save disk space, you can deps:
When you install Windows XP, assigns your drives the lowest letters available (D thru Z) so if you install new drives, the letter of your existing drives won't change. If you already have Windows installed and software installed, here's how to reassign the drive letters.
You cannot change a drive letter to a drive letter that already exists, and you cannot change your boot drive.
Don't want other users to be able to access the User Accounts applet in Control Panel and make changes to user account settings? On your XP Pro computer, you can prevent this by editing the local group policy. Here's how:
Some programs written for Windows 9x may not run properly on XP, but you still might be able to run them if you use compatibility mode.
Make XP open previously-opened windows when you log on! Do you want XP to "remember" the folder windows that you had open when you logged off, and open them up again automatically when you log back on? By default, XP doesn't do this, but you can change that easily:
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Disable the "There are Newly Installed Programs" Balloon When you install a new program in XP, the operating system helpfully tells you about it and highlights the new program(s) on the Start menu. If you don't like this behavior, there's something you can do about it:
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Built-in Backup
If you're using Windows XP Professional an easy backup solution is just a few clicks away. The built-in Backup utility lets you make copies of files, settings, or everything on your computer. To use the Backup utility:
• Click Start
• Point to All Programs
• Point to Accessories
• Point to System Tools
• Point to Backup
If you use Windows XP Home Edition, you'll have to manually add the Backup utility. To add the utility to Windows XP Home Edition:
1. Insert your Windows XP CD into the drive and, if necessary, double-click the CD icon in My Computer.
2. On the Welcome to Microsoft Windows XP screen, click Perform Additional Tasks.
3. Click Browse this CD.
4. In Windows Explorer, double-click the ValueAdd folder, then Msft, and then Ntbackup.
5. Double-click Ntbackup.msi to install the Backup utility.
Are you the command line sort? Would you prefer to type program names into the Run box instead of clicking through menus? Hey, it takes all kinds. Here are the commands to open some of XP's commonly used utilities from the command line: