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Windows 7 For Seniors For Dummies

Description

Windows® 7 For Seniors for Dummies

Learn to:

• Use the Windows 7 desktop and create your first documents

• Connect to the Internet and browse the Web

• View, edit, and print photos

• Keep in touch by e-mail and play games online

Mark Justice Hinton

Author of Digital Photography For Seniors For Dummies

You can learn to use Windows, get online, and start doing things today!

You don't need a grandchild to teach you Windows 7 — with this friendly guide, you'll be using the mouse, working with folders, hooking up a printer, and cruising the Internet in nothing flat. Learn to use all the gizmos that come with Windows 7, shop online, view a slideshow of your favorite photos, send e-mail to a friend, enjoy music, and more!

• Tour the desktop — learn to use menus, the Start menu button, files, and folders

• Do it — create notes and letters, connect a printer, download photos from your digital camera, and put music on a CD

• Have some fun — discover Solitaire and other built-in games, listen to music, and watch a movie

• Use the accessories — display Gadgets on your desktop, draw with Paint, and use the Calculator

• To keep or not — install additional programs you want and remove those you don't need

• Protect your Windows — learn to use the Action Center, download and install virus protection software, and keep it up to date

• Have it your way — make your screen easier to see, open files with a single click, and even have your computer read to you

• The wide, wide Web — shop and explore online and learn to stay safe

Open the book and find:

• What's on the taskbar

• Directions for creating and saving documents

• Steps for installing a printer and other peripherals

• How to connect to the Internet anywhere

• Backgammon and other games you can play online

• Guidance on protecting your computer from viruses

• How to send e-mail attachments

• Advice on backing up documents and photos

Reviews

Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-07-14
Summary: "Windows 7 for seniors"

Maybe I know more than I thought I did, but this book is so beyond basic that it was NO help for me

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-07-13
Summary: "Windows 7 Dummies book"

I have just started going through the Windows 7 for Seniors for Dummies book, slowly. The "seniors" means big print which I appreciate. I have had a computer for years and was familiar with the XP and find that this version is an improvement on that. It may take me some time to review all the information in the book, however I am finding it very useful.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-07-12
Summary: "Simply A Good Book"

I am so glad I ordered this book. This author knows what a senior adult needs to know about Windows 7, wouldn't be without it;

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-06-28
Summary: "My Father loved this"

This came to me in a timely manner - My father loved it! He has been fighting the computer age but now knows he really does need one. I got him a laptop and this is the easiest way for him to learn (by book) so this seemed perfect and fitting. He is doing great with it and almost ready for the computer age :-)

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-04-18
Summary: "Windows 7 for Seniors"

I purchased this for my daddy's cousin who is 93 years old and received her first computer as a present. She called me and said she had learned more from this book by herself than she had from everyone trying to teach her. She's searching for information and doing email now.