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Windows XP Personal Trainer

By CustomGuide Inc
First Edition  November 2004 
Pages: 470
ISBN 10: 0-596-00862-7 | ISBN 13: 9780596008628

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Do you find the multitude of features and functionality in Windows XP a little baffling? This fully illustrated book focuses on the key Windows XP muscle groups to help you learn basics like working with programs, managing files and folders, customizing windows, optimizing and maintaining your computer and networking with Windows XP. It's written in a non-technical and engaging style that you will find fun, easy, clear and informative. Includes an interactive CD.
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The most widely used operating system in the world, XP is certainly the most reliable and best-looking version of Windows. But it comes with a baffling multitude of features and functionality that you'll struggle to understand--despite all of the hours you've logged with Windows 2000, Windows Me, 98 or 95. And if you're a beginner, where do you start? Windows XP Personal Trainer enables beginners and experts alike to become black belts, quickly and easily. This fully illustrated book takes a modular approach to learning, allowing you to start with the fundamentals and work your way to advance topics through dozens of task-oriented lessons--at your own pace. The companion CD tutorial guides you through each lesson interactively. With plenty of detailed diagrams, Windows XP Personal Trainer includes sections on:
  • Working with Windows
  • Using the programs included with Windows XP (such as Media Player)
  • Organizing files and folders
  • Modifying the taskbar and desktop
  • Customizing Windows XP
  • Optimizing and maintaining the operating system
  • Exploring the Internet
  • Networking with Windows XP
If you already have experience with Windows XP, you can dive right into those topics (and only those topics) that you need or want to learn. Unlike many consumer software tutorials that dumb down the material or present it in a confusing fashion, Windows XP Personal Trainer is written in a non-technical and engaging style that you will find fun, easy, and most of all, clear and informative. You can become proficient without wading through tons of jargon and technical information. Part of our new Personal Trainer Series, this book is based on content from CustomGuide (www.customguide.com), a leading provider of computer training materials. Founded by instructors who grew dissatisfied with the industry's dry course materials, CustomGuide offers courseware (for instructors and students), quick references, to software bulletins and e-learning courses that are fun, flexible, and easy to use.

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"This title is larger than usual for the series, and does not waste resources on unnecessary colour. The text is supported by very good screen shots and other illustrations. The writing is clear and does not leave terms undefined or concepts unexplained--but does not repeat the dose every time a term or concept is mentioned. There are plenty of useful boxed notes and concise reminders of what has been learned. A good training manual for self-teaching or more formal courses. Don't be fooled by the comic-book cover design; this is serious stuff."
-- Major Keary, PC Update

"This is a book that won’t intimidate a novice or bore computer jocks who are switching to XP or using any of the other Personal Trainer-addressed programs for the first time. I recently repented my Luddite ways and installed XP-Pro. This book held my hand and walked me through the changes. What I especially enjoyed was the fact that I could either read it chapter by chapter or jump around to specific new features that I did not understand--including how to get rid of that darned doggie in the Search program."
--Babette Bloch, GGCS Newsletter, July 2005

"Do you want to learn the ins and outs of Windows XP? Then this Personal Trainer book is for you... All of the instructions are very clear and those contained in the Quick Reference boxes are short, to the point and are related to one specific topic. Each chapter has a lesson summary, short quiz and a few homework problems. The Personal Training books are great for teachers as well as for someone learning the program at home on their own...Windows XP Personal Trainer is an excellent book with interactive training for beginners. Intermediate Windows users will also learn a trick or two."
--Judy Taylour, Santa Clarita Valley PC Group, May 2005

"The book is very methodical, never assuming you know about something that is just introduced. A picture always accompanies the text when a new subject is introduced..This book would be very useful to the new computer user, especially one who has just purchased a new computer. The book should make understandable the jargon that we all use in talking about computers."
--George Harding, Journal of the Tucson Computer Society, February 2005

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"A good training manual for self-teaching or more formal courses. Don't be fooled by the comic-book cover design; this is serious stuff."
--Major Keary, PC Update