Windows 7: The Missing Manual

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc.", Mar 19, 2010 - Computers - 908 pages

In 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.

Windows 7 fixes many of Vista's most painful shortcomings. It's speedier, has fewer intrusive and nagging screens, and is more compatible with peripherals. Plus, Windows 7 introduces a slew of new features, including better organization tools, easier WiFi connections and home networking setup, and even touchscreen computing for those lucky enough to own the latest hardware.

With this book, you'll learn how to:

  • Navigate the desktop, including the fast and powerful search function
  • Take advantage of Window's apps and gadgets, and tap into 40 free programs
  • Breeze the Web with Internet Explorer 8, and learn the email, chat, and videoconferencing programs
  • Record TV and radio, display photos, play music, and record any of these to DVD using the Media Center
  • Use your printer, fax, laptop, tablet PC, or smartphone with Windows 7
  • Beef up your system and back up your files
  • Collaborate and share documents and other files by setting up a workgroup network

From inside the book

 
Page x
... Disk Cleanup .................................................................................................. ... Disk Defragmenter ..................................................................................................
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... disk icon labeled Local Disk (C:); double-click it to open it. Inside that window is yet another icon called Windows. Double-click to open it, too.” Similarly, this kind of arrow shorthand helps to simplify the 8 windows 7: the missing ...
Page 12
... disk and folder windows. (They may still appearin your individual software programs.) If you miss them, you can make them reappear by pressing the Alt key, Tab key, or an arrow key whenever the menu bar is visible. (When you're ...
Page 34
... Disk (C:)→Users→[Your Name] folder. If you study that path carefully, it should become clear that what's in Documents when you login (page 737) isn't the samething other people will see when they login. That is, each account holder ...
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... disk in the CD drive, you see its name, not just its drive letter.) When you select a disk icon, the Details pane (if visible) shows its capacity and amount of free space (bottom). Start→Devices and Printers Yes, kids, it's a ...

Where's the rest of this book?

Selected pages

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
Copyright

Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2010)

David Pogue is an American technology writer and TV science presenter. He was born in 1963 and grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Pogue graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1985, with distinction in music. After graduation, Pogue wrote manuals for music software, worked on Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, and wrote for Macworld Magazine. He wrote Macs for Dummies, which became the best-selling Mac title, as well as other books in the Dummies series. He launched his own series of humorous computer books entitled the Missing Manual series, which includes 120 titles. He spent 13 years as the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times, before leaving to found Yahoo Tech. In addition to how-to manuals, he wrote Pogue's Basics: Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You) for Simplifying the Technology in Your Life, collaborated on The World According to Twitter, and co-authored The Weird Wide Web.

Bibliographic information

TitleWindows 7: The Missing Manual
Missing manual
AuthorDavid Pogue
Editionrevised
Publisher"O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 2010
ISBN1449388876, 9781449388874
Length908 pages
Subjects ›  ›  › 

Computers / Design, Graphics & Media / Graphics Tools
Computers / General
Computers / Hardware / General
Computers / Hardware / Personal Computers / General
Computers / Hardware / Personal Computers / PCs
Computers / Networking / General
Computers / Operating Systems / General
Computers / System Administration / General
  
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