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Windows 7 eLearning Kit For Dummies

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

Dezember 2011

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

304

Maße (L/B/H)

1.6/18.7/23.3 cm

Gewicht

725 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-118-03159-9

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

Dezember 2011

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

304

Maße (L/B/H)

1.6/18.7/23.3 cm

Gewicht

725 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-118-03159-9

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  • Produktbild: Windows 7 eLearning Kit For Dummies
  • Introduction 1

    About This Kit 1

    How This Book Is Organized 2

    How This Book Works with the Electronic Lessons 3

    Conventions Used in This Book 3

    Foolish Assumptions 3

    Icons Used in This Kit 4

    Class Is In 4

    Lesson 1: Getting Started with Windows 7 5

    Logging In and Off Windows 7

    Types of user accounts 8

    Making a good password your key 11

    Making Windows more usable 11

    Logging on to your account 13

    Logging off your computer 14

    Logging off automatically 18

    Managing Accounts 19

    Giving your account a new face 20

    Changing your password 21

    Giving your account a new name 22

    Adding new accounts 23

    Setting Up a Good Work Environment 24

    Say hello to Windows! 24

    Adjusting your monitor(s) so you can see 26

    Adjusting the size of stuff onscreen 27

    Setting the right date and time 29

    Arranging, hiding, and removing icons 31

    Making the boring desktop just a little less so 33

    Fine-Tuning Your Desktop 34

    Turning on ClearType to read more easily 35

    Hooking up two monitors 36

    Adding and removing gadgets 38

    Taking the mouse cursor out of hiding 40

    Getting Control of All Those Windows 41

    Mastering the mouse or mouse replacement 42

    The altered states of windows 43

    Controlling a window's size and position 44

    Scrolling a window's contents 45

    Snapping a window in place 46

    Arranging multiple windows 48

    Getting all windows out of the way 49

    What's the deal with dialog boxes? 50

    What you find in application windows 52

    Summing Up 52

    Know This Tech Talk 53

    Lesson 2: Playing with Programs, Folders, and Files 55

    Launching Programs 57

    Launching a program from the Start menu 58

    Pinning and re-arranging programs on the Start menu 58

    Launching programs from and pinning programs to the taskbar 60

    Using jump lists in the taskbar 62

    Switching among open programs 63

    Finding a program to start (or a fi le to open) 64

    Organizing Your Files 67

    Opening Windows Explorer (the file manager) 68

    Figuring out what to do with a file manager 69

    Finding out what's where 70

    Creating a new folder 73

    Searching for files 74

    Deleting files via the Recycle Bin 76

    Managing Libraries 78

    Rearranging a library 79

    Adding a folder to an existing library 80

    Creating a new library 81

    Accessing libraries via the Start menu 82

    Adding links to more libraries 86

    Summing Up 89

    Know This Tech Talk 90

    Lesson 3: Organizing Your Pictures, Movies, and Music 91

    Wrangling Windows Media Player 93

    Understanding Digital Media 94

    Maintaining your privacy 94

    Shopping where you like 96

    Deciphering media file formats 96

    Knowing your usage rights 98

    Setting Up Windows Media Player 98

    Watching and Listening to Files in WMP 103

    Watching DVDs 104

    Playing video files 106

    Playing audio CDs 107

    Assembling playlists 107

    Editing an existing playlist 112

    Burning your own mixes 112

    Ripping tracks from audio CDs 114

    Playing with Your Photos 116

    Adding pictures to the Pictures library 116

    Browsing your photos 118

    Printing a photo 120

    Using a Windows Live Account to Share Photos 122

    Getting a Windows Live account 123

    Establishing your Windows Live profi le 126

    Creating and sharing photo albums 130

    Installing Windows Live Essentials 132

    Sharing Photo Gallery Albums with Windows Live 135

    Summing Up 136

    Know This Tech Talk 137

    Lesson 4: Networking Your PCs 139

    Assessing Your Network Connectivity 141

    Setting Up a Home Network 144

    Securing your file sharing fi rst 144

    Introducing your router 148

    Planning for better wireless accessibility 149

    Managing your router from any PC 152

    Comprehending how routers map addresses 154

    Setting up your router 157

    Managing Your Windows Connections 163

    Setting the network connection profile 163

    Manually establishing a Wi-Fi connection 165

    Manually setting Windows' IP address 169

    Verifying the connection status 173

    Restarting the network from Windows 174

    Building a Homegroup 175

    Getting the homegroup started 177

    Sharing files and printers with a homegroup 179

    Summing Up 184

    Know This Tech Talk 185

    Lesson 5: Playing on the Internet 187

    Navigating the Web with Internet Explorer 9 189

    Making sense of the address bar 190

    Back and Forward 193

    Setting your starting point 195

    Managing your browsing history 195

    Marking, recalling, and managing Favorites 198

    Working with multiple tabs 201

    E-Mailing Friends, Relatives, and Everyone on the Planet 203

    Adding one or more accounts 204

    Reading messages 206

    Replying to and sending messages 208

    Sending and receiving messages with attachments 210

    Wading through junk (and not junk) e-mail 212

    Sort messages into folders 214

    Summing Up 215

    Know This Tech Talk 215

    Lesson 6: Staying Safe and Secure 217

    What Is User Account Control? 219

    How UAC works and why 219

    Setting up an administrator account 222

    Taking Care of Everyday Maintenance 224

    Getting familiar with Task Manager 225

    Removing a wayward application or process from memory 227

    Seizing control of Windows Update 229

    Applying updates judiciously 232

    Uninstalling faulty updates 236

    Backing up data 237

    Setting Up Security and IE9's Protections 241

    Using Windows Firewall 242

    Installing Security Essentials 245

    Using a virus scan to quarantine and remove a suspect file 247

    Keep out what you don't want in 249

    Managing How Your Kids Use the PC 252

    Setting strict time limits 253

    Restricting the use of specifi c programs 254

    Restricting games your kids play 256

    Setting up Family Safety 257

    Blocking and allowing sites 261

    Examining an activity report 264

    When Disaster Strikes 265

    Running your PC in Safe Mode 265

    Repairing Windows 7 Startup 268

    Summing Up 271

    Know This Tech Talk 272

    Appendix: About the CD 275

    System Requirements 275

    Launch Instructions 275

    Operation 276

    Troubleshooting 277

    Index 279