Microsoft Windows XP Professional Resource Kit, Second Edition | Microsoft Windows XP Professional Resource Kit 2003

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Microsoft Windows XP Professional Resource Kit / Microsoft Windows Team.--2nd ed.
p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-7356-1974-3 1. Microsoft Windows (Computer File) 2. Operating systems (Computers). I. Microsoft Windows Team.

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Thank you to those who contributed to this book:

Microsoft Windows XP Professional Resource Kit, Second Edition

Book Writing Lead: Paulette McKay
Resource Kit Tools Program Managers: Majdi Badarin and Clark Gilder
Resource Kit Tools Software Development and Test Team: Sameer Garde, Sunil Gummalla, Venu Somineni, Kendra Yourtee, Scott Smith, and John Turner
Technical Writing Leads: Cheryl Jenkins, Randy McLaughlin, and Andrea Weiss
Writers: Ben Aguiluz, Fred Ahrends, Jim Bevan, Ross Carter, Martin DelRe, Kumud Dwivedi, Suzanne Girardot, Douglas Goodwin, Clifton Hall, Merrilee McDonald, Chris McKitterick, Jerry Santos, Ben Smith, Mark Wilkinson, Roland Winkler, Roger Yap, Larry Yurdin, and Jill Zoeller
Book Editing Leads: Julie Miller, Scott Turnbull, and Paula Younkin
Editing Leads: Sandra Faucett, Anika Nelson, and Scott Somohano
Editors: Sandra Faucett, Laura Graham, Justin Hall, Joan Kleps, Rebecca McKay, Sandi Resnick, Susan F. Sarrafan, Fredrika Sprengle, Dee Teodoro, and Thelma Warren
Glossary Coordinator: Scott Somohano
Production Leads: Dave Eggleston, Patty Gardner, and Jason Hershey
Production Specialists: Barbara Arend, Heather Klauber, Elizabeth Hansford, Tess McMillan, Barbara Norfleet, and William Teel
Documentation Tools Software Developers: Jason Hershey and Cornel Moiceanu
Indexing Leads: David Pearlstein and Krista Wall
Indexers: Lee Ross and Tony Ross
Lead Graphic Designer: Gabriel Varela
Designers: Chris Blanton and Rochelle Parry
Art Production: Jon Billow, Joel Panchot, Amy Shear, and Gabriel Varela
Test Managers: Eric Camplin and Jonathan Fricke
Test Lead: Richard Min
Testers: Keith Horton, Michael Howe, Tim Kim, Gino Sega, and Matt Winberry
Windows Lab Administrators: Dave Meyer and Robert Thingwold
Lab Partners: Cisco Systems, Inc. and Compaq, Inc.
Department Managers: Martin DelRe and Ken Western
Documentation Manager: Pilar Ackerman
Editing Manager: Kate O Leary
Release Managers: Daretha Hodges, Neil Orint, and Karla van der Hoeven

A special recognition to the following technical experts for their exceptional contributions: Ben Christenbury, Bob Fruth, Jeff Nemecek, and George Vordenbaum

A special thanks to the following technical experts who contributed to and supported this effort: Randy Abrams, Maximillian Aigner, Brian Andrew, Gabriel Aul, Brian Aust, Kai Axford, Arun Ayyagari, Ed Baisa, David Bakin, Smaranda Balasiu, Dan Baldo, David Baldridge, Terry Barcroft, Karl Barrus, Brad Benefield, Fred Bhesania, Susan Boher, Richard Bond, Trudy Brassell, John Brezak, Ryan Burkhardt, Franc Camara, Robert Cameron, Greg Campbell, Craig Carlston, Karen Carncross, Mira Chahine, Daniel Chan, Frank Chidsey, Jason Clark, Curtis Clay III, Jason Cobb, Shy Cohen, Joseph Conway, David Cross, Brennan Crowe, Nat Crum, Bill Curtis, Joseph Dadzie, Paul Darcy, Joseph Davies, Scott Deans, Craig Delthony, Pasquale DeMaio, Clint Denham, Michael Dennis, Dominique Domet-DeMont, Tony Donno, Bo Downey, Simon Earnshaw, Tarak Elabbady, Lisa Epstein, Levon Esibov, Brian Esposito, Glenn Evans, David Everett, Gregory Finch, Eric Fitzgerald, Zeb Fitzsimmons, Dennis Flanagan, Bob Fruth, Jason Fulenchek, Lee Fuquay, Mark Galioto, Randall Galloway, Praerit Garg, Vincent Geglia, Clark Gilder, Sunni Goeller, David Golds, Darrell Gorter, Timothy Green, Robert Griswold, Jim Groves, Bill Gruber, Robert Gu, Brian Guarraci, Keith Hageman, Jeff Hamblin, Mu Han, Bobbie Harder, Dennis Harding, William Harding, Matthew Hendel, Scott Hetzel, Emily Hill, Mike Hillberg, Mary Hillman, Greg Hinkel, Anne Hopkins, Vic Horne, Terence Hosken, Jin Huang, Ben Hutz, LaDeana Huyler, Robert Ingman, Shaun Ivory, Michael Jacquet, Raj Jhanwar, Tom Jolly, Deborah Jones, Nate Keyes, Carsten Kinder, Kristin King, Richard Knowles, Igor Kostic, Vishwa Kumbalimutt, Norbert Kusters, Justin Kwak, Michael Lai, John Lamb, John Lambert, David Lee, Thomas Lee, Benjamin Leis, Raymond Leury, Bjorn Levidow, Matt Lichtenberg, Steve Light, Yung-Shin Lin, Huisheng Liu, Daniel Lovinger, Don Lundman, Pankaj Lunia, Erik Lustig, Craig Marl, Allen Marshall, Craig Marshall, Aaron Massey, Michael Maston, Mark Maszak, Marcus Matthias, Phillippe Maurent, Greg McConel, Michael McConnell, Everett McKay, Charleta McKoy, Lonny McMichael, Joy Miller, Wes Miller, Daniel Millet, Joseph Minckler, Derek Moore, David Morehouse, Alan Morris, Jennifer Moser, Gary Moulton, David Mowers, Elliot Munger, Anand Namasivayam, Debbie Newman, Thomas Nielsen, Steve Olsson, Robert Osborne, Darwin Ou-Yang, Emanuel Paleologu, Bharti Pardasani, Cooper Partin, Annie Pearson, Daryl Pecelj, Nathan Pettigrew, Worapon Pitayaphongpat, Glenn Pittaway, Steven Poling, Jason Popp, Houman Pournasseh, Steve Powers, Jose Luis Montero Real, Cyra Richardson, Andrew Ritz, Cynda Rochester, Carmen Myriam Rodero-Scardelis, Russell Dee Rolfe, Robert Ross, Vic Rozumny, Vlad Sadovsky, Mohammed Samji, Clark Satter, John Schwartz, Joseph Seifert, Heide Shriver-Thatcher, Andy Simonds, Scott Sipe, Guy Smith, Jonathan V. Smith, Robert Smith, Bob Snead, Kirk Soluk, Sundar Srinivasan, David Stern, Christina Storm, Hakon Strande, Guhan Suriyanarayanan, Heather Swayne, Scott Tembreull, Cristian Teodorescu, Vishal Thakkar, Jim Thatcher, Mandy Tidwell, Albert Ting, Eric Torgeson, Mike Tricker, Jim Travis, Jim Truher, Mike Truitt, Gabriel Usmani, Eugene Valley, Cliff Van Dyke, Catharine van Ingen, Tonu Vanatalu, Don Velliquette, Son Voba, Stephen Walli, Charles West, BJ Whalen, Ethan Wilansky, Robert Wilhelm, Roy Williams, Jon Wojan, A-Zu Wu, Wei Wu, Edward Ye, Shuling Yu, Jason Zions, and Ethan Zoller.

System Requirements

To use the Microsoft Windows XP Profession Resource Kit, Second Edition, companion CD-ROM, you ll need to have a computer equipped with the following configuration:

Pentium II with 266 MHz or higher processor
Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, or Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later
Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader

To install the Windows Resource Kit Tools contained on the companion CD- ROM, you ll need 30 MB of free disk space. See the Windows Resource Kit Tools Help file that is installed with the tools for each tool s system requirements.