More Easy Windows 98 [Paperback]

Joe Kraynak (Author), Keith Powell (Author)

Book Description

Series: Easy ... | Publication Date: August 26, 1998

More Easy Windows 98 gives you full color, step-by-step solutions to your Windows questions. This book is tightly focused around the needs of new and casual users who enjoy the four color format but want to learn far more about Windows than just the basics. This book is a tremendous resource for users who need to understand and troubleshoot computers more effectively, but prefer to learn visually instead of wading through line after line of exposition. Optimize your system and your software, master the new Active Desktop, and effectively access the World Wide Web, Email, and Newsgroups. Also included is coverage of Win 98 tips, tricks, and shortcuts, as well as how to use Windows 98 on a notebook pc and on a network.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Some people learn by observing, and those people are sure to like More Easy Windows 98. Based on the premise that a graphical operating system (one with icons and pointers, rather than typed commands) is best learned visually, this book goes heavy on high-quality illustrations, walking you through key procedures with sequential illustrations not unlike comic strips.

The reader is assumed to have rudimentary knowledge of how to get around in Windows 98 (or Windows 95, which is largely the same thing), so there's no explanation of how the mouse works or anything like that. Rather, Joe Kraynak shows how to customize your computer's appearance and behavior, how to install and use Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, and how to troubleshoot problems. Perhaps best of all, there's good coverage of how to connect several Windows 98 computers in a small network so users can share files, printers, and other resources.

Readers may have a few gripes--quite a few of the illustrations are too small, for one thing. More seriously, More Easy Windows 98 assumes you have Active Desktop configured for one-click launching of files and applications, but not everyone's computer is set up this way and new users may be confused by having to double-click when the book says to single-click. But overall, this is a fine visual guide to some of the more subtle capabilities of Windows 98. --David Wall

From the Back Cover

More Easy Windows 98 gives you full color, step-by-step solutions to your Windows questions. This book is tightly focused around the needs of new and casual users who enjoy the four color format but want to learn far more about Windows than just the basics. This book is a tremendous resource for users who need to understand and troubleshoot computers more effectively, but prefer to learn visually instead of wading through line after line of exposition. Optimize your system and your software, master the new Active Desktop, and effectively access the World Wide Web, Email, and Newsgroups. Also included is coverage of Win 98 tips, tricks, and shortcuts, as well as how to use Windows 98 on a notebook pc and on a network.

Product Details

• Paperback: 252 pages
• Publisher: Que; 1st edition (August 26, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789717409
• ISBN-13: 978-0789717405
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,624,522 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joe Kraynak has authored and coauthored numerous informative and easy-to-use books, including Take the Mic, Stage a Poetry Slam, Flipping Houses For Dummies, Foreclosure Self-Defense For Dummies, Financing Real Estate Investments For Dummies, 52 Weeks of Sales Success, Foreclosure Investing For Dummies, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Computer Basics, and Google Simplified: Top 100 Tips & Tricks.

He specializes in teaming up with prominent specialists in various fields to present their knowledge, experience, and insight to consumers in an easily accessible format. Over the course of his career, he has collaborated with experts in real estate (Ralph R. Roberts), psychiatry (Candida Fink, MD), food allergies (Robert A. Wood, MD), slam poetry (Marc Kelly Smith), mortgage lending (Chip Cummings), and mortgage fraud (Rachel Dollar).

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Windows 98 Educational Resource!, October 3, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: More Easy Windows 98 (Paperback)

     The Windows 98 operating system offers much in the way of special features not found in previous releases of the Windows operating system. Make no mistake about it, Windows 98 is changing the way computers operate. It is therefore essential for students, hobbyists, and employees alike to keep up on the latest advances being made in this computer software technology.

     Following on the successful coattails of Que's Easy Windows 98, Joe Kraynak has written More Easy Windows 98 to offer a more-detailed instruction guide on the operation and use of Windows 98. The book offers noticeable in-depth coverage of the more advanced Windows features that make it an excellent companion volume to Easy Windows 98.

     The book picks up by showing readers how to optimize their computer systems and configure Windows to meet their own individual requirements. As the result of reading this book readers will learn how to speed up the operation and use of their computers, reclaim disk space, adjust virtual memory settings, adjust printer performance, manage fonts, and much more. The book offers many helpful timesaving tips, shortcuts, and helpful troubleshooting solutions. A glossary of basic terms is provided at the back of book.

     While this book does not offer the detailed coverage provided in other books discussing the Windows 98 operating system it does make an important contribution to the computing community. Its major strengths are the format, quality illustrations, and ease of reading that contribute to making this book an effective educational resource for use at home, the office, and classroom. It is serious but non-threatening reading for anyone who wants to dig deeper and get ahead!