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Not Responding? Task Manager to the Rescue ..........................................................................925
Closing frozen programs ................................................................................................925
Switching and starting tasks............................................................................................926
Restarting a hung computer ............................................................................................927
Peeking at Resource Usage ........................................................................................................927
Managing Processes with Task Manager ....................................................................................929
Hidden processes............................................................................................................930
Common processes ........................................................................................................930
Choosing columns in processes ......................................................................................931
Monitoring Performance with Task Manager ............................................................................932
Networking and Users Tabs ......................................................................................................933
Wrap Up ..................................................................................................................................934
Chapter 46: Troubleshooting Software Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935
Troubleshooting Installation......................................................................................................935
Troubleshooting Programs ........................................................................................................935
Researching Application Errors..................................................................................................936
Editing the Registry ..................................................................................................................937
How registry data is organized ........................................................................................937
Standard root keys and subkeys............................................................................937
Key values ............................................................................................................939
Numbering Systems ..................................................................................................................941
Backing up the registry ..................................................................................................944
Making the registry change ............................................................................................944
Help with Troubleshooting Software..........................................................................................946
Part IX: Hardware and Performance Tuning 947
Chapter 47: Installing and Removing Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949
Before You Install Anything ......................................................................................................949
Using Hot-Pluggable Devices ....................................................................................................950
Connecting USB devices ................................................................................................950
Connecting IEEE 1394 devices ......................................................................................952
PC Cards and Cardbus....................................................................................................953
Using memory cards ......................................................................................................954
Memory cards and USB mass storage ..............................................................................954
Disconnecting hot-pluggable devices ..............................................................................954
Not-so-Hot-Pluggable Devices ..................................................................................................956
Installing expansion cards ..............................................................................................957
Installing more memory (RAM) ......................................................................................959
Installing a second hard drive ........................................................................................960
Primary and extended partitions ....................................................................................961
Partitioning and formatting the disk................................................................................961
Other hard drive operations............................................................................................964
Converting a FAT disk to NTFS ............................................................................964
Shrinking and extending partitions ......................................................................965
Changing a volume label ......................................................................................966
Changing a drive letter ........................................................................................966
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