The Senior's Guide to Easy Computing: PC Basics, Internet, and E-Mail,9780965167239

The Senior's Guide to Easy Computing: PC Basics, Internet, and E-Mail

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ISBN13: 9780965167239
ISBN10: 0965167232
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-01-01
Publisher(s): Alliance Book Co
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Why Own A Computer?
15(1)
Why Should You Use This Book?
16(1)
Objectives And Limitations
17(1)
I Want To Hear From You
18(1)
Understanding PC Basics
What Is A Personal Computer?
19(1)
Why Should I Have A PC?
20(1)
Is A Mac (Apple Macintosh) A PC?
21(1)
Types Of PCs
22(1)
What Is Hardware?
23(1)
What Is A ``Propeller Head''?
24(1)
What Is Software?
25(1)
What Are Applications?
26(1)
What Is An Operating System?
27(1)
What Is The Central Processing Unit (CPU)?
28(1)
What Is CPU Speed?
29(1)
What Is Random Access Memory (RAM)?
30(1)
What Is A Megabyte?
31(1)
Ram Vs. Hard Drive Storage
32(1)
What Are Disk Drives?
33(1)
How Do Drives Differ?
34(1)
What Is A Floppy Drive?
35(1)
What Is The Hard Drive?
36(1)
What Is A CD-Rom Drive?
37(2)
What Is A Monitor?
39(1)
What Is A Qwerty Keyboard?
40(1)
What Is A Mouse?
41(1)
What Are Expansion Slots?
42(1)
What Is Multimedia?
43(1)
What Is A Printer?
44(1)
What Is DPI?
45(1)
What Is A Modem?
46(1)
What Is Baud Rate?
47(1)
Is Modem Speed Important?
48(1)
Getting Set-Up
How Do I Get Started?
49(1)
Picking The Best Workspace
50(1)
Connections
51(1)
Turning On The PC
52(2)
Understanding Windows
What Is The Windows Operating System?
54(1)
What Is The Desktop?
55(1)
What Is The Taskbar?
56(1)
What Is An Icon?
57(1)
What Is A Pointer?
58(1)
What Is The Difference Between The (A:), (C:), and (D:) Drives?
59(1)
What Is A File?
60(1)
What Is An Extension?
61(1)
What Is A Folder?
62(1)
Start-up/Shut-down
Booting Up
63(2)
What Should I See On The Screen After The Start-Up?
65(1)
What Is A Window?
66(1)
Recognizing The Parts Of A Window
67(1)
What Are The Mouse Functions?
68(2)
What Is The Taskbar?
70(1)
What Is The Start Button?
71(2)
How Do I Shut Down The PC?
73(1)
How Do I Re-Start The PC?
74(1)
Basic Skills
Basic Skills
75(2)
Opening A Window
77(1)
Resizing A Window
78(1)
Moving A Window
79(1)
Too Many Open Windows?
80(1)
What Is A Scrollbar?
81(1)
What Is A Menu?
82(1)
What Is A Menu Bar?
83(1)
Using Menus And Sub-Menus
84(1)
What Is A Shortcut Menu?
85(1)
What Are The Key Functions?
86(2)
How Do I Close A Program?
88(1)
Windows Tasks
What Is A Dialog Box?
89(1)
How Do I Find Files And Folders?
90(1)
How Do I Open A File or Folder?
91(1)
How Do I Rename A File Or Folder?
92(1)
Copying And Moving Files And Folders
93(2)
How Do I Create A Folder?
95(1)
Deleting Files and Folders
96(1)
How Do I Customize The Desktop?
97(1)
How Do I Play A CD?
98(1)
Playing Sounds
99(1)
Sound Recorder Toolbar
100(1)
Playing Media Clips And Movies
101(1)
What Is A Screen Saver?
102(1)
How Do I Get A Screen Saver?
103(1)
Programs
What Is A Program?
104(1)
Windows Programs
105(1)
New Programs
106(2)
How Do I Add A New Program?
108(2)
How Do I Remove A Program?
110(1)
How Do I Start A Program?
111(1)
How Do I Quit A Program?
112(1)
Word Processing Overview
113(1)
Spreadsheet Overview
114(1)
Games
115(1)
What Is Multitasking?
116(1)
Using My Computer
117(1)
Using Windows Explorer
118(1)
Working With My Documents
119(1)
File Management
File Management
120(1)
Backing Up
121(1)
Hard Disk Maintenance
122(2)
Internet
What Is The Internet?
124(1)
Where Did The Internet Originate?
125(1)
What Is the World Wide Web?
126(1)
What Can I Do On The Internet?
127(1)
Who Owns And Runs The Internet?
128(1)
How Many People Are On The Internet?
129(1)
Is There Bad Stuff On The Internet?
130(1)
Security On The Internet
131(1)
What Is Needed To Get Online?
132(1)
How Do I Get Connected?
133(1)
What Is An ISP?
134(1)
Which Online Service Is The Best?
135(1)
Can I Switch Online Services?
136(1)
Where Do I Get The Software To Access The Internet?
137(1)
What Is A Web Browser?
138(1)
How To Choose A Browser
139(1)
What Is A Domain Name?
140(1)
How Do I Log On To The Internet?
141(1)
What Is A Web Page/Web Site?
142(1)
What Is A Home Page?
143(1)
What Is Hypertext Linking?
144(1)
What Is A URL?
145(1)
What Is The Meaning Of http?
146(1)
How To Surf The Web
147(1)
Internet Explorer Toolbar Buttons
148(2)
How Do I Search For A Topic?
150(1)
Cannot Open A Web Page?
151(1)
Web Address Error Codes
152(1)
What Is An FTP Program?
153(1)
How Do I Download A File From The Web?
154(1)
What Is Uploading?
155(1)
Is There An Easy Way To Return To My Favorite Sites?
156(1)
What Is A Newsgroup?
157(1)
What Are Chat Rooms?
158(1)
What Is A Plug-In?
159(1)
What Is A Cookie?
160(1)
What Is A Virus?
161(1)
Logging Off The Internet
162(1)
E-Mail
What Is E-Mail?
163(1)
How Does E-Mail Work?
164(1)
What Do I Need To Get Started?
165(1)
What Is An E-Mail Address?
166(1)
How Do I Send E-Mail?
167(1)
How Can I Be Sure That The Message Was Sent?
168(1)
How Do I Receive E-Mail?
169(1)
How Do I Use The Address Book?
170(1)
Addressing E-Mail Shortcut
171(1)
How Do I Reply To E-Mail?
172(1)
How Do I Forward E-Mail?
173(1)
Sending Carbon Copies And Blind Carbon Copies
174(1)
How Do I Attach A File To My E-Mail Message?
175(1)
How Do I Receive Attachments?
176(1)
Is E-Mail Private?
177(1)
Reading And Composing E-Mail Offline
178(1)
Emoticons
179(1)
E-Mail Etiquette
180(1)
Acronyms
181(1)
101 Hot Tips 182(16)
101 Great Web Sites 198(7)
Index 205

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