Computer Basics Absolute Beginner’s Guide, Windows 10 Edition, 9th Edition

INTRODUCTION

Because this book is titled Computer Basics: Absolute Beginner’s Guide, let’s start at the absolute beginning, which is this:

Computers aren’t supposed to be scary. Intimidating? Sometimes. Difficult to use? Perhaps. Inherently unreliable? Most definitely. (Although they’re much better than they used to be.)

But scary? Definitely not.

Computers aren’t scary because there’s nothing they can do to hurt you (unless you drop one on your foot, that is). And there’s not much you can do to hurt them either. It’s kind of a wary coexistence between man and machine, but the relationship has the potential to be beneficial—to you, anyway. ...