Laptops For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

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You will discover how to choose and purchase the right laptop for you, how to set up and maintain your laptop, customize user accounts, adding your laptop to networks, printing, and connecting to the Internet. In this updated and revised edition, find information about synchronizing with the desktop, coordinating email pickup between two machines, remote access to the desktop, networking, power management, storage, and especially laptop security. Youll find out how to:

• Navigate all your laptops components
• Use keyboard shortcuts and a mouse
• Organize and manage files and accounts
• Print files and add your laptop to a network
• Properly equip your laptop carrying case with tools and resources
• Manage the power supply
• Add software tools to synchronize and update files between a laptop, a PDA, and a desktop or office server

In addition to the basics, find lists of ten battery tips and tricks, ten handy laptop accessories, and ten things you should keep in your laptop carrying case in Laptops for Dummies, 3^rd Edition, a convenient and handy guide!

Product Reviews

(3 stars) - VISTA VS XP
More for Vista users, I'm XP. Gave to my 11 yr old grandaughter as she was gifted with a Vista product. She is a happier camper!

(5 stars) - Great introduction to laptops!
* Excellent introduction to laptops
* Helps you decide what kind of laptop is best for you
* Great section on making the most of your laptop
* Teaches you how to optimize the laptop for usage on the road
* Nice section on extending your laptop's battery life

(5 stars) - big help
great assist - just bought my first lap top and while it was on order, read most of the background chapters on laptops-
now that we on are on line-its helpful -
are there regualarly scheduled updates to this series ?

(4 stars) - Laptops for Dummies
This is a good basic way to learn about laptop computers. I received it quickly, and Amazon and the sender were both very helpful.

(4 stars) - Laptops for Dummies - A critical eye.
A comprehensive volume which goes far to fill in the many gaps left by
the inadequate, sketchy, and obscure "instructions" issued with the
laptop. Obviously, there is never going to an all-embracing book for
computers in general, and all of my books on PCs make only passing
references to laptops -- almost as if laptops were beneath their
notice. This is an excellent book and far less frightening than
"Prostate Cancer for Dummies".

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