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Windows 7 For Dummies, Pocket Edition [Kindle Edition]

Andy Rathbone (Author)
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Get more done and have more fun with Windows 7

Windows 7 is loaded with features, tools, and shortcuts designed to make life easier for all users. This handy guide is sure to make Windows as clear as can be. It helps you get started, use folders and files, find handy gadgets, and search on your PC or online.

Open the book and find:

  • Ways to find photos, music, and video on your PC
  • Advice on jazzing up the Windows 7 interface
  • Reasons for making the switch to Windows 7
  • Tools for staying organized
  • Steps for setting up your user accounts and passwords

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Learn to:

  • Personalize your Windows 7 desktop with your own photos

  • Speed up Windows with built–in shortcuts

  • Customize Windows warnings to only give the notices you want

  • Move your files from your old PC to a Windows 7 computer

Windows 7 is loaded with features, tools, and shortcuts designed to make life easier for all users. To learn how they all work, you need this latest version of the book that′s been making Windows clear for years! It starts at Square One, helping you set up Windows 7, use folders and files, get online, play with media, and keep Windows happy.

  • New to Windows? — Part I is full of stuff everybody thinks you already know, like how to use the Start menu, taskbars, and files

  • What′s new in Windows 7 — control the number of prompts and warnings, enjoy plentiful shortcuts, and explore interactive previews

  • Lost and found — use the Search function to locate anything: missing windows, programs, e–mails, songs, photos, files, even other computers on your network

  • Cruisin′ with the new Internet Explorer — set up and customize Internet Explorer, understand plug–ins, and navigate the Web

  • Move your stuff — transfer your files from an old PC to your Windows 7 system

  • Where the fun starts — play music and movies with Media Player, organize photos, and create slideshows you can put on DVD

  • Keep your files safe — make backups and create a system repair disk

Open the book and find:

  • Shortcuts for finding photos, music, and video on your PC

  • Steps to setting up separate user accounts for a whole family

  • Tips for laptop users

  • How to get photos from your digital camera to your computer

  • Advice on managing e–mail with Windows 7

  • Common Windows 7 headaches and how to avoid them

  • How to create a simple home network

  • Windows 7′s tools for safe computing

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Product details

  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 2349 KB
  • Print Length: 432 pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies (21 Dec 2010)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.ą r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004HD69DS
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #8,477 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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69 of 69 people found the following review helpful
Windows 7 for Dummies 12 April 2010
Format:Paperback
Recently, my Grandson, a computer buff, persuaded me to update from Windows XP to Windows 7.
Once installed, I found I had teething problems. Windows 7 is a completely new and novel approach to home computing. Although I was competent in Windows XP, many of the advances included in Windows 7 were beyond my reach. So I bought a copy of "Windows 7 for Dummies". With its help, many of the advantages of Windows 7 began to make sense.
"Windows 7 for Dummies" is a book packed with good advice, hints & tips. Written in non-technical language it will prove invaluable to elderly computer users like myself.
The language used is simple to understand and most of the book is written in a humorous style.
The bottom line - Get a copy as soon as possible. You won't regret it !
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93 of 95 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've always been a fan of the 'for Dummies' books - they are easy to read and allow you to get to the basic information quickly and if you are new to Windows then this book will do that for you. However if you are already comfortable with the basic windows techniques and are looking for something that is specific to Windows 7 - its new features and and how to get the most out of it, I don't recommend this book. About 90% of this book would apply to any Windows OS - XP or Vista. So if you understand Windows but want to know more about Windows 7 then this is not the book for you.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Being resonably new to computers and having purchased a lap top with windows 7, I needed help, but not an encyclopedia. Windows 7 for Dummies is excellent because you just look up what you want to know at the time and it is explained in plain language not computer speak.
Properly using it as a reference book is the best idea and both my wife and I find it most easy to use. Bearing in mind we are both over 60 years of age it does what it says in the title. Thank you Windows for Dummies.
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Just what I needed but didn't really want to have to face up to it!
I didn't really want to move to Windows 7 as I was quite happy with the simpler and older XP, but I kept getting stuff in Windows 7 which I couldn't open properly and so have had... Read more
Published 12 days ago by Peter
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This has made life so much easier. Easy to find the information I want from the index. It is easy to follow.
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This .is the second book i've tried, but don't seem to be able to grasp it. Will keep trying. I will get into the 21st century.
Published 5 months ago by Mrs. Elizabeth Scott
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I recently upgraded from XP to Windows 7. I was able to use Windows 7 fairly competently, but felt that I should be getting more out of it. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Cleo
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This book is still a little bit complicated mainly because it does not really attack the problems....The Easy Steps books are better (and cheaper)in this respect
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Yet another really useful book in the "Dummies" series. Used as a reference I find it invaluable. I would however urge Andy Rathbone to tone down his "Folksy" style a bit because... Read more
Published 5 months ago by B. Hudson
Money well spent
It's usually difficult to find the help or information when you need it.Having having had the previous'Dummy's' I've always found them to be a source of answers and 'How to' when... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Eastendboy
Excellent Book
First class book and full of information to make windows 7 easier to understand and use for the beginner and the uninitiated.
Published 7 months ago by Gordon Mckenzie
I'm not a dummy
Does what it says. I couldn't have converted from Windows XP without it. Just one complaint - it says nothing about "sticky notes".
Published 7 months ago by K. W. Herdman
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