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Overview
The most widely used operating system in the world, XP is certainly the most reliable and best-looking version of Windows. But it comes with a baffling multitude of features and functionality that you'll struggle to understand—despite all of the hours you've logged with Windows 2000, Windows Me, 98 or 95. And if you're a beginner, where do you start?
Windows XP Personal Trainer enables beginners and experts alike to become black belts, quickly and easily. This fully illustrated book takes a modular approach to learning, allowing you to start with the fundamentals and work your way to advance topics through dozens of task-oriented lessons—at your own pace. The companion CD tutorial guides you through each lesson interactively.
With plenty of detailed diagrams, Windows XP Personal Trainer includes sections on:
- Working with Windows
- Using the programs included with Windows XP (such as Media Player)
- Organizing files and folders
- Modifying the taskbar and desktop
- Customizing Windows XP
- Optimizing and maintaining the operating system
- Exploring the Internet
- Networking with Windows XP
Part of our new Personal Trainer Series, this book is based on content from CustomGuide (www.customguide.com), a leading provider of computer training materials. Founded by instructors who grew dissatisfied with the industry's dry course materials, CustomGuide offers courseware (for instructors and students), quick references, to software bulletins and e-learning courses that are fun, flexible, and easy to use.
This fully illustrated book takes a modular approach to learning, allowing readers to start with the fundamentals and work their way to advanced topics. The companion CD tutorial guides them through each lesson interactively.
Synopsis
This fully illustrated book takes a modular approach to learning, allowing readers to start with the fundamentals and work their way to advanced topics. The companion CD tutorial guides them through each lesson interactively.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewGymnasts develop “muscle memory” for their routines. This book’s hands-on workouts help you develop muscle memory for Windows XP, so even complicated tasks become second nature. Don’t worry about fouling up your system, either. You’re working with a simulator: your personal Windows sandbox, where it’s impossible to mess up settings or lose data.
These workouts cover pretty much everything typical Windows XP users need to know. There’s beginner’s stuff like logons and navigating programs (making this a great gift for Grandma, along with her new PC). But there’s just as much stuff for experienced users. Listening to Internet radio stations. Freeing space on crowded hard drives. Controlling security on shared folders. Scheduling automated tasks. You’d want to do quite a few of these things, if only you knew how. Now you will. Bill Camarda, from the January 2005 Read Only