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| Windows Vista For Dummies | 
 enlarge | Author: Andy Rathbone
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
List Price: $21.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 261473
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 1.2
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.446
ASIN: B0015DCQ3A
Publication Date: December 13, 2006
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Condition: Ships immediately! Perfect and New! 1st Edition. 2006 Paperback.
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 If you can turn on a computer and click a mouse, you don't need this book. January 17, 2007
89 out of 102 found this review helpful
Windows Vista for Dummies is light on details and missing so much important information you'd be better off skipping this book entirely. I simply cannot believe anyone who has used Windows before would find much of value in this book. It is a basic book for beginners who have never seen a computer before. If you can turn on a computer and click a mouse, you don't need this book.
I got this book because Chapter 1 discusses some of the features in Windows Vista and I thought it would then go into more detail. NOT!! Chapters 2 to 7 are about clicking the mouse, pointing to get to menus, starting progrmas, searching and printing. If you can click Start and then click a program to run (which even my 6 year old can do) you can skip these chapters entirely. If you can click Print in a program you can skip these chapters entirely. Oh and if you can click Start, type a search and then click, you can skip these chapters too.
Things go downhill from there as the next two chapters (chapter 8 and 9) are rehashes of web browsing and sending email!! By this time it was clear the author can write cute little anecdotes but doesn't have a thimbles worth of knowhow when it comes to computers.
Many features are left out entirely or mentioned in passing since it seems you're supposed to buy a different dummies book if you actually want to be able to do something. The only actual programs covered are in Chapter 15: Playing and Copying Music in Media Player and Chapter 16: Fiddling with Photos and Movies. These chapters are so skimpy they might not as well even be in the book. That's it for multimedia, there's nothing else!! Only these 2 lousy chapters!! If you can click Start and then click one of these programs you can learn more on your own in 5 minutes. The goal seems to be to make sure you buy the dummies multimedia book.
Read All About Vista January 8, 2007
24 out of 33 found this review helpful
This past year. computers have had a numerous makeover. There have been numerous games that have defined many P.C.s and video game systems like the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. Although video game systems have been high and low, the windows have also recieved a change. While so many more computer are geared to Windows XP operating systems today, they are also geared to being compatable to the next edition of the Windows operating system, Vista. With many computer heads wanting to bump up and update the functions and the potential of their computer with the next Windows, they just don't know how it will be on the computers. This will take you to the next level.
Windows Vista For Dummies is a comprehensive step-by-step guide that takes you through the motions of knowing how to operate your way through the new operating system. The book is very detailed and basic for those who don't have a computer yet, or if you have Windows XP and just want to upgrade. There are many different details here on this version including how to operate Windows Media Player 11, and the compatabilty of new download services like Urge, and the new Internet Explorer 7 that now scans for phishing and possible identity theft, which may protect you from losing money and credit card information. The graphs and diagrams are detailed nicely, and handle perfectionally for basic Vista owners, and people who really don't know how to even operate a computer.
All in all, Windows Vista For Dummies is a real must buy for anyone who has the need to get the newest Windows Operating system. However, if you're satisfied with the way Windows XP works, there is no entity to upgrade. I really recommend this book from the Dummies people because it really teaches anyone the simpliest tricks of the trade, and that will help you to the Vista light.
Details: B+
Price: B 1/2-
Graphs: B 1/2+
Overall: B
 Great Way to get Up and Running Quickly December 11, 2006
81 out of 86 found this review helpful
Having been around Windows as long as Windows has been around, I know that I need two books on Windows Vista.
First I want something quick and easy. Something that will give me the overview that tells me simple things like, 'what version do I want.' Vista comes in five main versions: Basic, Premium, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate. A quick glance on pages 18 & 19 tell me I need the Business version.
Microsoft always throws in a bunch of new things just when you aren't expecting it. Vista, for instance, comes on a DVD, not a CD. I don't watch movies on my PC's, and they were constructed for business, not entertainment. So to use Vista, I've got to buy at least one DVD drive -- RATS. And this AeroGlass things seems to require high end graphics. How do I turn that off to work with low end graphics cards -- see page 376. Parental control, no kids here. Anyway you get the idea.
This Dummies book is exactly what I need to get through these kinds of problems. It is easy to read, easy to find what you need, quickly tells you how to do simple things like turn off parental controls.
The second book I'll need is something more complex, when you have a question like, 'how many open web sessions can Vista/Bussiness have' don't expect to find it in this book. Most likely I'll get Windows Vista Inside Out. It will cost at least double, have three times as many pages, and be much harder to find things.
Start with this one. With it you can get started quickly and begin to find where your real problems are.
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