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<< STUDY SKILLS << COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY << SOFTWARE Windows XP Personal Trainer step-by-step tutorial in world's most-used operating system Personal Trainers is an idea whereby you are allocated an individual tutor who helps you through a programme of development. This is normally physical fitness or personal lifestyle, but now we have information technology. It's a good metaphor for a book, and this series from O'Reilly gets as close as it's possible to be with the idea. What they do is take one very small step at a time, and make sure you know exactly where you're up to in the learning cycle. This is the most fundamental training manual I have ever come across. It starts from steps as elementary as how to switch on and how to close it down. It really is just about as reassuring as it's possible to be in print. Then throughout, it takes a modular approach to learning, allowing you to start with the fundamentals and work your way to advanced topics through dozens of task-oriented lessons - at your own pace. It includes really fundamental issues such as re-sizing, titling, and cascading windows. These might seem absurdly elementary, but I know from phone calls requesting support that plenty of people think whole programs have disappeared just because they can't see the open window that displays them, because it is hidden behind another open window. O'Reilly have departed from their normally classy presentation to offer this guide in a comic-book style in terms of outer wrapping; but inside it's as rigorous as ever. Every step is illustrated with a screen shot of what you should see as you adjust your settings or tweak your layout It includes how to use the basic programs in XP such as WordPad, understanding files, folders, and storage systems, and how to change the way that information is displayed. I can tell you from personal experience that this is a powerful feature of XP. The next part deals with how to customise XP - desktop, colours, and screensaver, XP also has lots of built-in multimedia software: that's all explained too installing and removing software, defragmenting your hard disk, optimising and maintaining the operating system, exploring the Internet, and networking with Windows XP. Each chapter ends with a summary of the topics covered, a homework task, and a quiz with answers. It's reassuring, thorough, and recommended if you want a print tutorial on XP you can take at your own pace. © Roy Johnson 2005 [more COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY books] CustomGuide, Windows XP Personal Trainer, Sebastopol: CA, O'Reilly, 2005, pp.452 , ISBN 0596008627 Discounts of 40% at Amazon!

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