Microsoft Windows Vista Visual Quick Tips [Paperback]

Paul McFedries (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 26, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0470045787 | ISBN-13: 978-0470045787 | Edition: 1

• Value priced at only $12.99, this book helps visual learners get more done in less time with smart tips, tricks, and techniques
• With full-color screenshots and numbered instructions, users will find straightforward, quick, and easy answers to their Windows Vista questions
• This handy pocket guide presents a step-by-step, task-oriented approach that helps readers save time and become more efficient

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From the Back Cover

Would you like to harness the power of the new Vista operating system, set it up the way you want, and get the very best performance out of it that you can? Then this Visual Quick Tips book is for you. This book will increase your productivity by providing you with shortcuts, tricks, and tips to help you work smarter and faster.

• Straightforward task descriptions
• Succinct explanations
• Full-color screen shots
• Numbered steps

Learn How To:

• Open folders with a single click
• Do cool things with photos and music
• Enhance Internet and computer security

About the Author

Paul McFedries is the president of Logophilia Limited, a technical writing company. While now primarily a writer, Paul has worked as a programmer, consultant, and Web site developer. Paul has written nearly 50 books that have sold more than three million copies worldwide. These books include the Wiley titles Windows XP: Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks, 2nd Edition, and Teach Yourself VISUALLY Computers, 4th Edition. Paul also runs Word Spy, a Web site dedicated to tracking new words and phrases (see www.wordspy.com).

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Visual; 1 edition (December 26, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470045787
• ISBN-13: 978-0470045787
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,611,120 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Paul McFedries runs Logophilia Limited, a technical writing company, and has been writing computer books for more than 17 years. He is the author or coauthor of more than 60 books that have sold more than 3 million copies worldwide. Paul is also the proprietor of Wordspy.com, a website that tracks new words and phrases as they enter the language.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Small but mighty, February 8, 2007

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John D. Mandes (Hershey, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Windows XP Visual Quick Tips (Paperback)

"Windows XP Visual Quick Tips" is an excellent reference guide for someone who needs to have facts and their finger tips as they use Windows XP, especially if it it is not their primary operating system. I suspect with the introduction of Apple's new line of computers which run both Mac OS as well as Windows XP, side by side, their will be many personal computer users who fall into this category: Users who are practically experts in Mac OS but neophytes when it comes to Windows XP (or any other version of Windows for that matter). In "Windows XP Visual Quick Tips, " author Paul McFedries has done an excellent job of selecting the most important aspects of Windows XP to share with the new Windows user thereby ending up with a handy, small book to keep at the user's side rather than a behemoth that resembles a bible. Designer Kathie S. Rickard and Illustrator Ronda David-Burroughs deserve special mention for their keen ability in complementing McFedries' text thereby greatly enhancing the book's design -- in full color with excellent screen shots that effectively complement the narrative text. Although I already knew a fair amount of the information contained in this guide, I read every page because of its layout and design. I highly recommend "Windows XP Visual Quick Tips." it will get used extensively as you familiarize yourself with, what for many Mac users, is a strange new world.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It is Visual and Quick But..., April 10, 2008

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Spudman (Pasadena, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Windows Vista Visual Quick Tips (Paperback)

I also found this book of limited usefulness. This is not an introduction to Vista but a tip sheet for those familiar with the program. The format and the graphics are too small for these old eyes.
Some of the tips, especially the ones for the internet are also applicable to Windows XP.
The view is not expansive here. It's a limited vista.

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Micro Soft Visual for Vista, November 28, 2007

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Heller (jacksonville fl) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Microsoft Windows Vista Visual Quick Tips (Paperback)

The book is too small, and the visuals have to be looked at thru a magnifying glass. I did not find this book helpful at all.