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2.10. Online Help

Most windows have some degree of online
documentation, in the form of a Help menu that you can pull down with
the mouse or by typing Alt-H. In addition, you can press
F1 at almost any time to display help. In
some situations, pressing F1 will only display a tiny yellow message
(known as a

tooltip )
with a brief description of the item with the focus; at other times,
F1 will launch an online index to help topics. Sometimes, F1 will
have no effect whatsoever.

Furthermore, if you hold the pointer over many screen objects (such
as items on the Taskbar or a window's toolbar), a
tooltip may appear. A tooltip may display nothing more than the name
of the object to which you're pointing, but in other
cases, it may provide additional information. For example, placing
the pointer on the system clock pops up the date. You can
turn tooltips off in the Windows interface
by going to Control Panel
Folder Options View and
turning off the option "Show pop-up description for
folder and Desktop items." Note that this
won't necessarily turn off tooltips in other
applicationsonly Explorer.

At the command prompt, you can get help on the available command-line
options by typing:

commandname /?

Finally, Windows XP includes a number of readme files, which typically contain
release notesinformation about special
handling required for specific applications or hardware devices. The
file c:\Windows\readme.txt contains a list of
all the other readme files on the system. Or, you can just look in
the \Windows directory for any file with the
.txt extension. Use Notepad or any other ASCII
text editor or word processor to read them.