Windows 7: The Missing ManualIn early reviews, geeks raved about Windows 7. But if you're an ordinary mortal, learning what this new system is all about will be challenging. Fear not: David Pogue's Windows 7: The Missing Manual comes to the rescue. Like its predecessors, this book illuminates its subject with reader-friendly insight, plenty of wit, and hardnosed objectivity for beginners as well as veteran PC users.
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... scroll), and so on. Other new-and-improved items lurk around every corner; among other improvements, somebody with a degree in English has swept through every corner and rewritten buttons, links, and dialog boxes for better clarity ...
... scroll bars, the taskbar, the Recycle Bin, shortcuts, the Start menu, shortcut menus, and so on. It also covers the system-wide, instantaneous Search feature. • Part 2, Windows 7 Software, is dedicated to the proposition that an ...
... scroll bar where you want the thumb to be. The scroll bar rapidly scrolls to the desired location and then stops. Scrolling is such a frequently needed skill, though, that all kinds of other scrolling gadgets have cropped up. Your mouse ...
... scrolling list, you'll find checkboxes and buttons that hide or show all kinds of things that can appear in the right column of the Start menu: Computer, Connect To, Control Panel, Default Programs, Documents, Favorites, Games, Help ...
... scrolling list are on/off switches for things that appear on the right side of the Start menu: Games, Music, Computer, Control Panel, your Personal folder, Pictures, and so on. If you never use some of these things, then for heaven's ...
Contents
Interior Decorating Windows | 173 |
Getting Help | 199 |
Windows 7 Software | 211 |
Programs Documents Gadgets | 213 |
Windows 7 Online | 341 |
Hooking Up to the Internet | 343 |
Windows Live Mail | 427 |
Windows Live Services | 467 |
Pictures Music TV | 479 |
Windows Live Photo Gallery | 481 |
Laptops Tablets Touchscreens | 619 |
Network Domains | 761 |
Sharing Files on the Network | 773 |
Windows by Remote Control | 797 |