The Internet For Microsoft^® Windows^® Me For Dummies^® , Millenium Edition

by John R. Levine; Margaret Levine Young; Jordan M. Young

• ISBN13: 9780764507397
• ISBN10: 0764507397
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: For Dummies

Summary

This book shows Windows ME users how to get online--the fun and easy way. Step-by-step tips on using the Millennium Edition2s newest features, such as simplified connection sharing, connection wizards, and updated Microsoft Outlook and Internet Explorer, provide users with the ultimate Internet first aid kit. The book also covers pointers for chatting online, using e-mail, and searching the Web.

Author Biography

Unlike her peers in that 40-something bracket, Margaret Levine Young was exposed to computers at an early age. In high school, she got into a computer club known as the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S., a group of kids who spent Saturdays in a barn fooling around with three antiquated computers. She stayed in the field through college against her better judgment and despite her brother John's presence as a graduate student in the computer science department. Margy graduated from Yale and went on to become one of the first microcomputer managers in the early 1980s at Columbia Pictures, where she rode the elevator with big stars whose names she wouldn't dream of dropping here.Since then, Margy has coauthored more than 20 computer books about the topics of the Internet, UNIX, WordPerfect, Microsoft Access, and (stab from the past) PC-File and Javelin, including The Internet For Dummies, 6th Edition, and WordPerfect 7 For Windows 95 For Dummies (all from IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.). She loves her husband, Jordan; her kids, Meg and Zac; gardening; chickens; reading; and anything to do with eating. Margy and her husband also run Great Tapes for Kids from their home in the middle of a cornfield near Middlebury, Vermont.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
Part I: Getting on the Net with Windows Me	7	(98)
What Is the Net? What Is the Web?	9	(16)
How May I Connect to Thee? Let Me Count the Ways	25	(24)
Setting Up Your Internet Account	49	(32)
Dialing In and Out	81	(24)
Part II: Mail and Gossip	105	(68)
All about E-Mail	107	(26)
Advanced E-Mail Stuff	133	(20)
The World According to E-Mail: Electronic Mailing Lists	153	(20)
Part III: Windows Me Web-Whacking	173	(82)
Windows Me Meets the World Wide Web	175	(22)
Working Web Wonders	197	(16)
Finding Stuff on the Net	213	(22)
Unlikely Ways to Use and See the Web	235	(20)
Part IV: Other Stuff You Can Do on the Internet	255	(92)
More Shopping, Less Dropping	257	(18)
Downloading, Uploading, and Other File-Flinging Fun	275	(24)
Online Chatting: How to Make Friends and Influence People	299	(28)
Getting Together with NetMeeting	327	(20)
Part V: The Part of Tens	347	(34)
Ten Problems and Solutions	349	(6)
Ten Frequently Asked Questions	355	(10)
Ten Cool Places on the Internet	365	(4)
Ten Stupid Internet Moves to Avoid	369	(12)
Glossary	381	(12)
Index	393