Windows 2000 Administration in a Nutshell

Conventions Used in This Book

The following typographical conventions are used in this book:

Constant width

Indicates command-line examples, code examples, and commands.

Italic

Introduces new terms and indicates URLs, directories, UNC and absolute paths, domain names, file extensions, filenames, and cross-references to other topics in the book.

Constant width italic

Indicates variables or user-defined elements such as username, which would be replaced by the user’s logon name in a command example.

Constant width bold

Indicates user input, or text that the user should type, in a commmand example.

(parentheses)

Indicates the chapter in which a cross-reference can be found; for example, disks refers to the disks article in Chapter 4.

<brackets>

Indicates variables or user-defined elements such as <username>, which would be replaced by the user’s logon name in a pathname, for example.

Gestalt Menus

In various places (particularly in Chapter 4), I use what I call “gestalt menus” to outline the step-by-step procedures needed to perform a specific task. These are quite easy to understand if you are sitting in front of a Windows 2000 computer while reading them (which is the logical place for you to be, since a quick desktop reference like this book should be sitting on your desk in plain view all the time!)

Here’s a simple example of a gestalt menu for sharing a printer:

Start → Settings → Printers → right-click on a printer → Properties → Sharing → Shared As → specify share name

You can see how easy it is to understand these menus when you are sitting at the computer. At each step in the menu, you either click a button, open a property sheet, select a tab, type a value, or perform some other action whose nature is obvious if you are working with the product.