| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 386 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
1. Understanding your PC hardware -- 2. Setting up your new computer system -- 3. Understanding Microsoft Windows XP -- 4. Taking Windows for a spin -- 5. Personalizing Windows -- 6. Working with files and folders -- 7. Adding new hardware and devices to your system -- 8. Setting up a home network -- 9. Performing routine maintenance -- 10. Dealing with common problems -- 11. Installing new software -- 12. Working with Microsoft works -- 13. Working with words -- 14. Working with numbers -- 15. Working with a database -- 16. Working with presentations -- 17. Managing your finances -- 18. Playing games -- 19. Connecting to the Internet -- 20. Surfing the Web -- 21. Finding stuff online -- 22. Shopping online -- 23. Buying and selling in eBay auctions -- 24. Sending and receiving Email -- 25. Using instant massaging and chat -- 26. Using newsgroups, message boards, and blogs -- 27. Downloading files -- 28. Creating your own Web page -- 29. Protecting your PC from viruses, spam, and other nuisances -- 30. Playing CDs and DVDs -- 31. Ripping and burning CDs -- 32. Downloading and playing digital music -- 33. Using your PC with a portable music player -- 34. Editing your own home movies -- 35. Burning and copying DVDs -- 36. Connecting a digital camera or scanner -- 37. Managing your digital photos -- 38. Creating digital scrapbooks and other photo projects. |
| Summary |
Pt. I. Getting started -- 1. Understanding your PC hardware -- What your computer can, and can't, do -- Getting to know your personal computer system -- Computer hardware basics -- 2. Setting up your new computer system -- Before you get started -- Connecting the cables -- Turning it on and setting it up -- pt. II. Using Windows -- 3. Understanding Microsoft Windows XP -- What Windows is, and what it does -- Different versions of Windows -- Working your way around the desktop -- Important Windows operations -- Using the start menu -- Understanding files and folders -- All the other things in Windows -- Getting help in Windows -- 4. Taking Windows for a spin -- Playing a game -- Launching a program, and printing and saving a document -- Viewing your documents -- Examining your hard disk -- Shutting down your system -- 5. Personalizing Windows -- Changing the look of your desktop -- Organizing desktop icons -- Changing the way the start menu works -- Activating special effects -- Changing your click -- Using a screensaver -- Resetting the time and date -- Setting up additional users -- 6. Working with files and folders -- Viewing folders and files -- Navigating folders -- Creating new folders -- Renaming files and folders -- Copying files -- Moving files -- Deleting files -- Working with compressed folders -- pt. III. Upgrading and maintaining your system -- 7. Adding new hardware and devices to your system -- Most popular peripherals -- Understanding ports -- Adding new external hardware -- Adding new internal hardware -- Using the add hardware wizard -- Connecting portable devices to your PC -- 8. Setting up a home network -- How networks work -- Setting up a wired or wireless network -- Running the network setup wizard -- Setting up wireless security -- Sharing files and folders across the network -- 9. Performing routine maintenance -- Free up disk space by deleting unnecessary files -- Make you hard disk run better by defragmenting -- Perform a hard disk checkup with ScanDisk -- Keep your hardware in. |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Computers.
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Electronic digital computers.
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Ordinateurs. |
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computers. |
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Electronic digital computers |
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Computers |
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Engineering & Applied Sciences. |
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Computer Science. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Miller, Michael, 1958- Absolute beginner's guide to computer basics. 3rd ed. Indianapolis, Ind. : Que, ©2005 (DLC) 2005924995 |
| ISBN |
0789734303 (pbk.) |
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9780789734303 (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
9780789734303 |
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0789734303 |
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