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Offers information about your twenty-first-century PC - from what plugs into what to adjusting your monitor to burning DVDs, and more. This work helps you learn how to: set up your PC; use Vista menus; store your stuff on Memory Cards; record live TV; download digital photos; connect to a wireless network; and, explore the Internet safely.
List of contents
From the contents:
Part I: Introducing the PC.Chapter 1: Computer? PC? What's That?
Chapter 2: The Nerd's-Eye View
Chapter 3: Insert Tab A into Slot B
Chapter 4: Computer On, Computer Off
Chapter 5: Places to Go, Things to See in Windows.7
Part II: Computer Guts
Chapter 6: Inside the Box
Chapter 7: The Basic Ports
Chapter 8: Disk Drives Me Crazy
Chapter 9: Memories . . . Like a PC Full of RAM
Chapter 10: Minding Your Monitors
Chapter 11: The Keyboard and Mouse Chapter
Chapter 12: More than a Mortal Printer
Chapter 13: The Mighty Morphin' Power Modem
Chapter 14: Sounds Like
Chapter 15: Even More Hardware!Part III: Networking Nonsense
Chapter 16: Basic Painless Networking
Chapter 17: Abusing the Network
Chapter 18: Your Network and the Internet
Chapter 19: Look, Ma: No Wires!
Part IV: The Soft Side of Computing
Chapter 20: Files: The Key to Understanding Software
Chapter 21: Organizing Your Compu-Junk
Chapter 22: File Control
Chapter 23: Software, Programs, Applications
Chapter 24: Making Your Own CDs
Chapter 25: Your Basic Internet Introduction
Chapter 26: It's a World Wide Web We Weave
Chapter 27: Basic E-Mail
Chapter 28: Files to Here, Files from There!
Part V: The Part of Tens
Chapter 29: Ten Common Beginner Mistakes
Chapter 30: Ten Things Worth Buying for Your PC
Chapter 31: Ten Tips from a PC Guru
