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We also cover how to best work with the increasingly popular plethora of digital imaging tools and formats encountered with digital photography and nonlinear video editing in your PC. Part III, “Windows XP and the Internet,” introduces you to Windows XP networking, Internet style. We start with Internet connection options and then move on to the supplied Internet tools. We provide in-depth coverage of Outlook Express for mail and newsgroups, Internet Explorer for Web surfing, and Windows Messenger for audio and videoconferencing.
Newer notebook computers can restart from Standby, which shuts down power to peripherals but maintains power flowing to your RAM, in as little as two seconds. Hibernation, which stores the state of your system (open files and programs) on the hard disk before powering down, is also faster. Newer systems can emerge from Hibernation in as little as 20 to 30 seconds. After you’ve booted your system, the Windows XP Professional Start menu makes it easier to use the most popular programs. It shows you the major new features, and a link called All Programs displays the rest of the programs ready for your use.
Fault tolerance features—The capability to handle power outages and disk crashes. ■ Capability to start and stop network services without rebooting. ) instructions. ■ Support for multiple file systems, including the old FAT16 file system used by MSDOS and Windows 9x and the NTFS file system developed for Windows NT, which supports advanced security features, long filenames, and automatic error correction. 1 user interface used by earlier Windows NT versions), and provided crash protection superior to that of Windows 95.