Windows Vista: The Missing Manual | 
 enlarge | Author: David Pogue
Publisher: Pogue Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 2868
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 848
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7 x 1.5
ISBN: 0596528272
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.446
EAN: 9780596528270
ASIN: 0596528272
Publication Date: December 27, 2006
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Condition: Paperback. Perfect condition. Never used. Great book.
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Product Description
Windows Vista is Microsoft's most important software release in more than a decade. It offers users an abundance of new and upgraded features that were more than five years in the making: a gorgeous, glass-like visual overhaul; superior searching and organization tools; a multimedia and collaboration suite; and above all, a massive, top-to-bottom security-shield overhaul. There's scarcely a single feature of the older versions of Windows that hasn't been tweaked, overhauled, or replaced entirely. But when users first encounter this beautiful new operating system, there's gonna be a whole lotta head-scratchin', starting with trying to figure out which of the five versions of Vista is installed on the PC (Home, Premium, Business, Enterprise, Ultimate). Thankfully, Windows Vista: The Missing Manual offers coverage of all five versions. Like its predecessors, this book from New York Times columnist, bestselling author, and Missing Manuals creator David Pogue illuminates its subject with technical insight, plenty of wit, and hardnosed objectivity for beginners, veteran standalone PC users, and those who know their way around a network. Readers will learn how to: Navigate Vista's elegant new desktop Locate anything on your hard drive quickly with the fast, powerful, and fully integrated search function Use the Media Center to record TV and radio, present photos, play music, and record any of the above to DVD Chat, videoconference, and surf the Web with the vastly improved Internet Explorer 7 tabbed browser Build a network for file sharing, set up workgroups, and connect from the road Protect your PC and network with Vista's beefed up security And much more. This jargon-freeguide explains Vista's features clearly and thoroughly, revealing which work well and which don't. It's the book that should have been in the box!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 35 more reviews...
 helping beyond what you would expect May 20, 2008
Richard A. Gellasch (OLDTOWN, FL USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
My review is simply a 5 star rating. It more than did the job. thanks Richard A G.
 A much needed manual April 5, 2008
Bob Iannone
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased this book for a friend and he told me that it was very helpful
Here's the missing Manual April 5, 2008
kayde (florida)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great reference book. They're right, it should have been in the box. A must have to save time figuring out the little quirks Vista has. Very easy read.
Information you need March 9, 2008
E. Hetfield (North Carolina)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book gives you all of the answers you need for all levels of computer users. Excellent inforamtion and easy to read. Also amusing and light, now like a test book.
 Not as helpful as I would have thought March 8, 2008
Marvin J. Godner (Santa Fe, NM United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
As a big fan of David Pogue in the NY Times, I was greatly disappointed with this very lengthy book. What I, and most people trying to learn Vista, need to know, is how to accomplish the tasks we used in previous operating systems in Vista...this book did not help at all.
Comparing the "old" methods, with hints for how to do it in the "new" system would have been a good first chapter...particularly how to transfer data files without the use of a hired computer Guru.
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