Part 1: The Big Windows 98 Picture

1 What's New in Windows 98 A quick look at all the new baubles and bangles that adorn the Windows 98 package.

2 Windows 98: The 50c Tour A bird's-eye view of the Windows 98 landscape.

Part 2: Basic Windows 98 Survival Skills

3 Making Something Happen: Launching and Switching Programs Working with applications: everything you need to know, from go to whoa.

4 Working with Windows 98's Windows Oodles of useful techniques for dealing with the windows that give Windows 98 its name.

5 Your Click Is My Command: Using Menus, Toolbars, and Dialog Boxes Complete coverage of a few oh-so-handy tools that let you put the whip to Windows 98.

6 A Few Workaday Document Chores A compendium of commonplace, nose-to-the-grindstone Windows 98 tasks and chores.

7 Getting Hard Copy: Windows 98 Printing A peck of pickled printing pointers.

8 Calling Up the Windows 98 HelpDesk How to get help fast before panic sets in.

Part 3: Customizing Windows 98 to Suit Your Style

9 Webtop Windows: Web Integration and the Active Desktop Learning to love the new "Webified" Windows 98 desktop.

10 Customizing the Desktop and Taskbar Desktop, taskbar, and Start menu tweaks for the rugged individualist in you.

11 Installing and Removing Software and Hardware A treasure trove of techniques for adding stuff to your computer (and getting rid of stuff, too).

Part 4: Windows 98 "F" Words: Files, Folders, and Floppy Disks

12 Navigating Your Computer with My Computer and Windows Explorer Using My Computer and Windows Explorer to get from here to there in your hard disk.

13 Routine File Maintenance Moving, copying, renaming, deleting, and other mundane (but vital) file chores.

14 Storage Solutions: Working with Folders and Floppy Disks Creating folders, formatting disks, and other folder and floppy disk foolishness.

Part 5: It's a Small World: Communications and the Internet

15 How to Get Connected to the Internet Need to keep up with the wired Joneses? This chapter shows you how to get on the Internet.

16 Can We Talk? Email, Newsgroups, and Internet Phone Calls How to get in your two cents' worth via email, Usenet newsgroups, and Internet phone calls.

17 Wandering the Web with Internet Explorer Using the Internet Explorer browser to traverse the Web's highways, byways, nooks, and crannies.

18 Becoming a Webmaster with FrontPage Express and Other Page Publishing Tools Getting your words online for surfers to see using FrontPage Express and the Web Publishing Wizard.

Part 6: Putting Windows 98 to Work

19 The Write Stuff: Windows 98's Writing Tools Using Notepad and Wordpad to compose digital notes, missives, epistles, letters, tirades, polemics, screeds, and so on.

20 Image Is Everything: Windows 98's Graphics Tools How to relive your youth using the Paint program, digital scanners, and digital cameras.

21 Bells and Whistles: Multimedia and Windows 98 Windows 98 multimedia madness: CD-ROMs, sounds, audio CDs, animation, and even how to watch TV on your computer!

22 Windows 98's Notebook Knickknacks A few notebook niceties, including Briefcase, Direct Cable Connection, power management, PC Cards, docking stations, and more.

Part 7: Do-It-Yourself Windows 98: System Maintenance and Troubleshooting

23 Tools for Keeping Your System in Tiptop Shape How to keep your computer in the pink of health using the Maintenance Wizard, Task Scheduler, ScanDisk, and DriveSpace.

24 Keeping Your Data Safe and Sound with Backup Real-world backup techniques and strategies designed to help you sleep better at night.

25 Troubleshooting Windows' Woes A veritable cornucopia of computer complaints (and their solutions).

Part 8: "No Tears" Windows 98 Networking

26 Working with Network Connections and Email A painless networking primer that'll have you up-and-emailing your network cohorts in no time.

27 Keeping in Touch: Mobile Computing with Dial-Up Networking On the road again? Here's how to keep in touch using Windows 98's Dial-Up Networking feature.

28 Speak Like a Geek: The Complete Archive A crash course in techno-babble.

Index