Windows XP for Dummies

About the Author

Andy Rathbone started geeking around with computers in 1985 when

he bought a boxy CP/M Kaypro 2X with lime-green letters. Like other budding nerds, he soon began playing with null-modem adapters, dial- ing up computer bulletin boards, and working part-time at Radio Shack. In between playing computer games, he served as editor of the Daily

Aztec newspaper at San Diego State University. After graduating with a

comparative literature degree, he went to work for a bizarre under- ground coffee-table magazine that sort of disappeared. Andy began combining his two main interests, words and computers, by selling articles to a local computer magazine. During the next few years, he started ghostwriting computer books for more-famous com- puter authors, as well as writing several hundred articles about com- puters for technoid publications like Supercomputing Review,

CompuServe Magazine, ID Systems, DataPro, and Shareware.

In 1992, Andy and DOS For Dummies author/legend Dan Gookin teamed up to write PCs For Dummies. Andy subsequently wrote the award-win- ning Windows For Dummies series, Upgrading & Fixing PCs For Dum-

mies,MP3 For Dummies, and many other For Dummies books.

Today, he has more than 15 million copies of his books in print, which have been translated into more than 30 languages. Andy lives with his most-excellent wife, Tina, and their cat in Southern California. He wants a new LCD panel monitor for his main computer, but then the cat wouldn’t have anyplace to sleep. Feel free to drop by his Web site at

www.andyrathbone.com

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