Windows XP

Microsoft Windows XP Plain & Simple

Name: Microsoft Windows XP Plain & Simple
Author: Jerry Joyce
ISBN: 9780735637009

by Jerry Joyce, Marianne Moon

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Overview

Easy numbered steps in FULL COLOR

Here’s WHAT you’ll learn:

Record music, make movies, play games
Send e-mail, browse the Web, have a voice-and-video chat
Set up your printer and a simple network
Organize, print, and share digital photos
Perform easy tune-ups and fixes
Use the new security features in Windows XP Service Pack 2, ready to download at microsoft.com/windows

Here’s HOW you’ll learn it:

Jump in wherever you need answers—for the simplest ways to get the job done
Easy NUMBERED STEPS show exactly what to do
Handy TIPS teach new techniques and shortcuts
Quick TRY THIS! exercises help you apply what you learn right away

Fully updated—new topics, new content!
Covers Windows XP Service Pack 2

About the Author, Jerry Joyce

Jerry Joyce has had a long-standing relationship with Microsoft: He has been the technical editor on numerous books published by Microsoft Press® and has written manuals, help files, and specifications for various Microsoft products. As a programmer, he has tried for many years to make using a computer as simple as using a toaster but has yet to succeed.

Marianne Moon has worked in the publishing world for many years as proofreader, editor, and writer - sometimes all three at once. She has been editing and proofreading Microsoft Press® books since 1984 and has written and edited documentation for Microsoft products including Microsoft Works, Flight Simulator, Space Simulator, Golf, Publisher, the Microsoft Mouse, and Greetings Workshop.

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The Barnes & Noble Review
This Windows XP guide makes a bold promise: "No computerese!" How do they do? Pretty darned well.

The full-color format is perfect both for beginners and for any experienced WinXP user who's looking for an easier way to find answers but has no interest in becoming a computer expert. And in just a couple hundred pages, it manages to cover the tasks typical users ask about most often, from setting up email addresses in Outlook Express to connecting a wireless network.

This Second Edition has just been thoroughly updated for Windows XP Service Pack 2's urgent security improvements. It also covers most everything else that's new with Windows XP since it was first launched a couple of years ago, including new media features you can download free from Microsoft or get with Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition.

You'll find all the coverage you'd hope for in a Windows XP guide for committed non-techies: how to manage and search for files; run DVDs and music CDs with Windows Media Player; set a new home page with Internet Explorer; manage your email and contacts with Outlook Express; keep your files private; set up a new printer; and so forth. But there's some content here you might not expect: how to run older programs that need to be tricked into working with Windows XP; how to create video slide shows; control pop-up windows; label your CD-ROMs; create a multimedia screen saver...

Between the colorful numbered steps and the friendly, informal writing, Windows XP Plain & Simple will make WinXP more useful and more fun for a whole lot of people. Bill Camarda

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2003 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.