Windows 8 Bible

Stuff You Can Do with a Computer

There’s so much you can do with Windows 8 and your computer, we hardly know where to start. So we’ll just throw some ideas out there and point you to the chapter where that topic is discussed. Of course, you can get much more detailed information about the contents of this book from the Table of Contents up front. And you can look things up in the Index at the back of the book. For the folks who are just getting started and don’t know quite what to do next, here are some quick suggestions:

• Set up parental controls: Chapter 6
• Get help: Chapter 7
• Personalize the new Windows 8 interface: Chapter 12
• Personalize the screen to your own style: Chapter 13
• Chat online: Chapter 17
• Setup social networking apps: Chapter 19
• Organize, fix, and print photos: Chapter 23
• Collect music and make your own CDs: Chapter 24

The terms and skills you’ve learned in this chapter should be enough to get you started on whichever topic looks most interesting. You will need an Internet connection for e-mail and the web. But you should be able to do everything else using just Windows 8. You don’t need to buy extra programs to do those things.