Information about Windows XP Home Edition


[Zap!] Windows XP Home Edition: The Complete Reference, our tome about Windows XP Home, includes many links to useful Web sites. Here they all are, along with some new sites that we've found since the book went to press. We've deviced the links into information about XP itself, programs that work with Windows XP, security sites, software libraries, and other links.

Information about Windows XP itself

Information about programs that work with Windows XP

Security information

Libraries of downloadable software

Web directories and search sites

  • Google: The ultimate Web search engine.

  • MSN.com: Microsoft's ISP, the Microsoft Network. (This Web site appears to have been engineered not to work with Netscape.)

  • My Yahoo: The Yahoo directory, customized for you.

  • Microsft's Hotmail: Free Web-based mailboxes.

  • Google Groups: Searchable Usenet newsgroups, including the comp.os.ms-windows.win98 group.

  • Topica: Searchable mailing lists.

Other Web sites referred to in the book

  • MSN Gaming Zone: The Web site for Microsoft's online games.

  • CD-Recordable FAQ: The most complete explanation of CD-Rs and CD-RWs that we know of.

  • Kodak's Ofoto: You can upload and store your digital photos here for free, and send passwords to your friends so that they can view your photo albums. Then you can order prints of any of your photos for 40 cents apiece (price as of October 2001).

  • Real Networks' RealPlayer: The player you'll need for the widest range of streaming audio and video files.

  • Microsoft's WindowsMedia Media Guide: The Windows Media Player links to the Web site automatically when you click the Media Guide button.

  • radioIO: Lots of interesting Internet radio stations.

  • Microsoft.net Speech 2001: Speech recognition technologies.

  • world Wide Web Consortium: The Web's home page -- the organization that started it all and still sets the standard for the Web.

  • DevX NetMeeting Zone: Source for information about NetMeeting and addresses for NetMeeting directory servers.

  • MSN Communities: Find online communities hosted by MSN.

  • Yahoo Geocities: Yahoo's free Web-hosting site.

  • Angelfire: Lycos's free Web-hosting site.

  • Wireless Ethernet: Source of technical information about wireless networking.

  • HomeRF: Information about wireless home LANs.

  • Mailing List Gurus Page: Information about how to participate in and create your own mailing lists.

Updated: Oct 26, 2002


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