Title:
Windows for Mac users
Author:
Baron, Cynthia.
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Publication Information:
Berkeley, Calif. : Peachpit Press, [1999]
©1999
Physical Description:
xviii, 421 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:
English
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ISBN:
9780201353969
Format :
Book
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Summary
Summary
If youre a die-hard Mac user who needs to work with Windows, you know that Microsofts operating system is just different enough from your familiar Mac OS to make the transition less than seamless. Dont waste time fumbling around on your own. Windows for Mac Users will make the switch much easier and less painful. In this one-of-a-kind book, Cynthia Baron teams up with best-selling Mac author Robin Williams to give you a clear, witty introduction to the PC interface and hardware. Youll learn how to make your cross-platform commute smoother and more productive with Mac-to-Windows keyboard shortcuts and easy-to follow instructions on how to rename and transfer your Mac files to a PC. Save yourself time and frustration by letting the experts be your guide to the world of Windows.
Author Notes
Cynthia L. Baron is the author of Creating a Digital Portfolio and the coauthor of Web Animation for Dummies. A designer and typographer, Cynthia teaches computer-related design courses at Northeastern University in Boston. As the technical director of computer graphics there, she also manages several networked, mixed-platform computer labs and is one of the founding members of the University's Multimedia Studies program.
Robin Williams is a fourth-generation Californian on both sides, born in Berkeley and raised in the Bay Area. She lived in Sonoma County for 15 years, then in 1993, she packed up her kids, the dog, and two cats and moved to New Mexico.
Table of Contents
| Why two Mac evangelists wrote this book | p. xviii |
| Part 1 Choosing and Using | p. 19 |
| 1. Preparing to do windows | p. 21 |
| Do you really need to "do Windows"? | p. 22 |
| You probably do need Windows if ... | p. 23 |
| Is your Macintosh ready? | p. 24 |
| How should you do Windows? | p. 26 |
| Choosing your Windows hardware | p. 31 |
| 2. What is Windows (really)? | p. 35 |
| The once and future Windows | p. 36 |
| Some Windows basics | p. 37 |
| Windows versions, pros and cons | p. 42 |
| 3. Setting Up Your PC | p. 45 |
| Look at the back of the computer | p. 46 |
| Keyboard and mouse connectors | p. 47 |
| Serial, parallel, SCSI, and USB | p. 48 |
| Serial ports | p. 49 |
| Parallel ports | p. 50 |
| Keeping serial and parallel straight | p. 50 |
| USB ports | p. 51 |
| SCSI connections, if you have them! | p. 52 |
| Expansion card connections | p. 55 |
| Joysticks | p. 56 |
| 4. Starting Up and Using Disks | p. 57 |
| Starting up in Windows | p. 58 |
| The Windows Desktop | p. 61 |
| Inside "My Computer" | p. 62 |
| Disk drive letters | p. 63 |
| Drive icons: what's what? | p. 64 |
| Drive C: and the Windows system folder | p. 65 |
| Where's the disk? | p. 66 |
| Clues in the File menu | p. 69 |
| Initializing and erasing disks | p. 70 |
| Ejecting: it's not a drag | p. 71 |
| Restart, sleep, or shut down | p. 72 |
| 5. The Keyboard | p. 75 |
| Special keys | p. 76 |
| Keyboard shortcuts: in Command or in Control | p. 78 |
| Application keyboard shortcuts | p. 80 |
| Customizing the keyboard | p. 81 |
| PC keyboard emulation on a Mac | p. 82 |
| 6. The Mouse | p. 83 |
| The amazing two-headed mouse | p. 84 |
| Selecting and deselecting | p. 84 |
| The right mouse button | p. 86 |
| Right-clicking and property sheets | p. 87 |
| The IntelliMouse wheel button | p. 88 |
| Customizing the mouse | p. 89 |
| Mouse emulation on a Mac | p. 92 |
| Part 2 Controlling the Desktop | p. 93 |
| 7. Anatomy of a Window | p. 95 |
| Windows in Windows | p. 96 |
| A typical Desktop folder window | p. 97 |
| Minimize button | p. 98 |
| Maximize and Restore buttons | p. 99 |
| Minimizing and maximizing document windows | p. 100 |
| Close button | p. 102 |
| Close vs. Quit | p. 102 |
| The Control menu | p. 103 |
| The Desktop folder window menu bar | p. 103 |
| The status bar | p. 104 |
| Arranging files in a Desktop folder window | p. 105 |
| Options for opening windows | p. 108 |
| Closing many windows | p. 111 |
| Moving a window | p. 112 |
| Locked windows | p. 112 |
| Applying a view to all windows (Windows 98) | p. 113 |
| Keeping the views you choose (Windows 98) | p. 114 |
| The browser interface (Windows 98) | p. 115 |
| The Internet Explorer interface (Windows 98) | p. 115 |
| 8. The Taskbar and Start Menu | p. 121 |
| Arranging windows on the Windows Desktop | p. 122 |
| Taskbar icons: Tray interesting | p. 125 |
| Taskbar Options | p. 127 |
| The Start menu: the Apple menu incognito | p. 131 |
| 9. The Toolbars | p. 135 |
| Displaying Desktop folder window toolbars | p. 136 |
| Application toolbars | p. 140 |
| Dialog box toolbars | p. 140 |
| Make your own toolbars in the Taskbar | p. 141 |
| The Links toolbar | p. 145 |
| 10. Trashing: the Recycle Bin | p. 147 |
| Putting files in the Recycle Bin | p. 148 |
| Deleting automatically | p. 149 |
| Get rid of the warning | p. 149 |
| Emptying the Recycle Bin | p. 150 |
| Restoring files | p. 150 |
| Limiting the size of the Recycle Bin | p. 151 |
| 11. Moving and Copying | p. 153 |
| Selected files stay selected | p. 154 |
| Standard cursor icons and what they mean | p. 154 |
| Moving and copying files on the same disk | p. 155 |
| Copying files from one disk to another disk | p. 156 |
| Moving files from one disk to another disk | p. 156 |
| Using "Send To" | p. 157 |
| My Briefcase | p. 158 |
| Refreshing after moving or copying | p. 161 |
| Spring-loaded folders | p. 162 |
| Running out of disk space while copying | p. 163 |
| Duplicating an entire disk | p. 164 |
| Part 3 Accessories and Control Panels | p. 165 |
| 12. Display Settings | p. 167 |
| Important note | p. 168 |
| Desktop property sheets | p. 168 |
| Changing the background pattern or picture | p. 168 |
| Changing accent color and text settings | p. 174 |
| Changing color depth and resolution | p. 176 |
| Testing your monitor changes | p. 180 |
| Applying the monitor changes | p. 181 |
| About dual monitors | p. 182 |
| 13. Control Panels | p. 183 |
| Control Panels in Windows | p. 184 |
| General Controls | p. 185 |
| Date/Time and Map | p. 186 |
| Regional Settings for foreign styles | p. 186 |
| Modem, PPP, and TCP/IP | p. 188 |
| Monitors | p. 191 |
| ColorSyne System Profile | p. 191 |
| QuickTime Settings | p. 191 |
| Sounds | p. 192 |
| Audio settings, volum | p. 193 |
| ODBC | p. 194 |
| Others | p. 194 |
| 14. Mac Desk Accessories a la Windows | p. 195 |
| Locating Windows accessories | p. 196 |
| Mac: Calculator | p. 197 |
| Mac: Video Player | p. 198 |
| Mac: AppleCD Audio Player | p. 200 |
| Mac: Key Caps | p. 202 |
| Mac: Chooser | p. 204 |
| Mac: Note Pad | p. 204 |
| Mac: SimpleText | p. 205 |
| Mac: Clipboard and Scrapbook | p. 207 |
| Mac: Stickies | p. 210 |
| Mac: About This Computer | p. 211 |
| Mac: System Profiler | p. 211 |
| 15. Customizing the Start Menu | p. 215 |
| Using the keyboard to navigate the Start Menu | p. 216 |
| Putting new things in the Start Menu | p. 217 |
| Rearranging items in the Start Menu (Windows 95/98) | p. 220 |
| Deleting items from the Start Menu | p. 222 |
| Part 4 Applications, Folders, and Files | p. 223 |
| 16. Installing and Using Applications | p. 225 |
| Can you install this application? | p. 226 |
| Installing on application | p. 228 |
| Where the application gets stored | p. 231 |
| Putting an application alias in the Start Menu | p. 232 |
| Memory and applications | p. 233 |
| Launching an application | p. 234 |
| Launching an application in the background | p. 236 |
| Cycling through open applications and windows | p. 236 |
| Quitting an application | p. 236 |
| The Startup folder | p. 237 |
| Uninstalling applications | p. 238 |
| 17. Creating Folders, Files, and Aliases | p. 239 |
| Creating a new folder | p. 240 |
| Creating and saving a new file | p. 241 |
| Creating aliases (shortcuts) | p. 243 |
| 18. File Formats and their Icons | p. 249 |
| Windows file formats | p. 250 |
| Windows file icons | p. 250 |
| Application files and their icons | p. 252 |
| System files and their icons | p. 259 |
| 19. Paths and Long File Names | p. 261 |
| The tree structure | p. 262 |
| Paths | p. 262 |
| Path names and title bars | p. 264 |
| Extensions and long file names | p. 266 |
| Long file names and paths | p. 269 |
| Renaming files and folders | p. 270 |
| Renaming numbered files | p. 271 |
| DOS has a short memory | p. 272 |
| 20. Finding File Information | p. 273 |
| Getting file information | p. 274 |
| Locking and unlocking a file | p. 275 |
| Hiding or showing a file | p. 275 |
| Finding files | p. 276 |
| Multiple searches at the same time | p. 278 |
| Using a found file | p. 278 |
| Sorting the list | p. 278 |
| Open containing folder | p. 278 |
| Saving a search | p. 279 |
| Showing all the files | p. 280 |
| Finding other sorts of items | p. 282 |
| Part 5 Going Back and Forth | p. 283 |
| 21. Mounting PC Media and Reading PC files | p. 285 |
| Mounting removable media | p. 286 |
| Mounting PC CDs on a Mac | p. 288 |
| The Mac's File Exchange control panel | p. 289 |
| Using File Exchange (OS 8.5 and up) to translate files | p. 293 |
| Using Mac OS Easy Open (OS 8.0 and 8.1) to translate files | p. 295 |
| Other file translators | p. 298 |
| 22. Transferring Files | p. 299 |
| Why won't some files open? | p. 300 |
| Generic Windows icons | p. 300 |
| Create and name those Mac files correctly! | p. 301 |
| System-specific file formats | p. 304 |
| What about Windows files on a Mac? | p. 311 |
| Saving EPS files on the PC for the Mac | p. 313 |
| Know your application formats | p. 314 |
| Getting Macintosh files onto a PC | p. 316 |
| Making a DOS-formatted floppy disk | p. 316 |
| Making a DOS-formatted Zip or Jaz disk | p. 317 |
| Checklist for transferring files | p. 318 |
| 23. Sending Email Attachments | p. 319 |
| Preparing files as email attachments | p. 320 |
| Compressing files for sending online | p. 321 |
| Disabling helper applications | p. 324 |
| Understanding attachments and encoding | p. 327 |
| Sending MIME-encoded files | p. 329 |
| 24. Fonts | p. 331 |
| Font technology basics | p. 332 |
| Windows and TrueType fonts | p. 333 |
| Installing or deleting TrueType fonts | p. 334 |
| Windows and PostScript fonts | p. 336 |
| Installing or deleting PostScript fonts | p. 336 |
| Viewing your fonts in Windows | p. 338 |
| Font management in Windows | p. 339 |
| Know the font name equivalents | p. 340 |
| Don't use system fonts if the file will go cross-platform | p. 341 |
| Separate your non-sharable fonts | p. 342 |
| Use Acrobat PDF files when possible | p. 342 |
| Font style linking | p. 344 |
| Converting fonts | p. 346 |
| The rules of using fonts cross-platform | p. 349 |
| 25. Color | p. 351 |
| Macintosh images on PCs | p. 352 |
| Computer "system palettes" | p. 352 |
| Dithered colors | p. 353 |
| The Windows system palette | p. 354 |
| The Mac system palette | p. 355 |
| The Macintosh and Windows palettes compared | p. 356 |
| Macintosh color calibration | p. 357 |
| Gamma | p. 359 |
| Setting a color profile in Windows 98 | p. 361 |
| Advanced color topics | p. 363 |
| 26. Printing | p. 365 |
| Setting up a printer in Windows | p. 366 |
| Printing a file in Windows | p. 369 |
| Printing a folder list--not! | p. 370 |
| General note on all cross-platform printing | p. 370 |
| Windows printers and PostScript | p. 371 |
| Saving EPS files for printing in Windows | p. 373 |
| Printing from a Mac to a Windows printer | p. 374 |
| Sharing a Windows printer | p. 374 |
| Printing Windows files on a Mac printer | p. 375 |
| "Print to file" | p. 376 |
| Summary of printing files | p. 378 |
| Part 6 Extras | p. 379 |
| 27. Multiple Users on one PC | p. 381 |
| User profiles maintain your Desktop settings | p. 382 |
| Create Desktop profiles (Windows 95/98) | p. 383 |
| Logging on as a different user | p. 388 |
| Deleting user profiles | p. 389 |
| 28. Preventing Problems | p. 391 |
| Read this before you crash | p. 392 |
| Emergency disks | p. 392 |
| Backup Windows 98 system files | p. 394 |
| NT repair disk | p. 395 |
| Back up your files | p. 396 |
| Fragmentation and disk errors | p. 398 |
| Keeping the disk trim | p. 403 |
| Viruses | p. 404 |
| Part 7 The Stuff at the End | p. 407 |
| Index | p. 408 |
| About the authors | p. 422 |
| Colophon | p. 422 |