Laptops All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

• Builds on the huge success of Laptops For Dummies, now in its
  second edition

• Eight minibooks comprising nearly 850 pages give laptop owners
  the detailed information and advice they need to make the most of
  their computers

• Offers focused content for new and intermediate laptop users,
  covering laptop basics and beyond, from synchronizing information
  with a desktop PC and coordinating e-mail between two computers to
  accessing the Internet or a desktop computer remotely

• Minibooks include laptop basics, software for laptops,
  accessories to go, traveling with a laptop, security, networking a
  laptop, sources of power, and upgrading a laptop

• Sales of laptops continue to outpace sales of desktop PCs, with
  retail laptop sales up 24 percent in the 2006 holiday season

Autorentext
Corey Sandler was the first executive editor of PC Magazine. He has written more than 160 books, including Upgrading & Fixing Laptops For Dummies and Laptops For Dummies Quick Reference.

Zusammenfassung

• Builds on the huge success of Laptops For Dummies, now in its second edition
• Eight minibooks comprising nearly 850 pages give laptop owners the detailed information and advice they need to make the most of their computers
• Offers focused content for new and intermediate laptop users, covering laptop basics and beyond, from synchronizing information with a desktop PC and coordinating e-mail between two computers to accessing the Internet or a desktop computer remotely
• Minibooks include laptop basics, software for laptops, accessories to go, traveling with a laptop, security, networking a laptop, sources of power, and upgrading a laptop
• Sales of laptops continue to outpace sales of desktop PCs, with retail laptop sales up 24 percent in the 2006 holiday season

Inhalt

Introduction.

Book I: Choosing the Best Laptop.

Chapter 1: Knowing What You Want, Getting What You Need.

Chapter 2: Touring a Modern Laptop.

Chapter 3: Microprocessors, Memory, and Operating Systems.

Chapter 4: Doing It Yourself versus Calling in the Cavalry.

Book II: Setting Up Your Laptop.

Chapter 1: Installing or Upgrading an Operating System.

Chapter 2: Painting Flames on the Operating System:
Customizing.

Chapter 3: Transferring Settings, E-mail, and Documents.

Chapter 4: Managing Files, Folders, Extensions.

Book III: Running Basic Windows Operations.

Chapter 1: Opening Windows.

Chapter 2: Using Built-in Windows Applications and Gadgets.

Chapter 3: Windows Maintenance Utilities.

Chapter 4: Honk, Honk! Windows Backup and Restore Utilities.

Book IV: Using Common Applications.

Chapter 1: Writing Documents.

Chapter 2: Crunching Data with Spreadsheets.

Chapter 3: Presenting Yourself with PowerPoint
Professionalism.

Chapter 4: Checking Your Calendar.

Book V: Playing with Multimedia.

Chapter 1: Walking Through Windows Media Playe.

Chapter 2: Feeling the Music, Seeing the Stream.

Chapter 3: Hamming It Up for the Webcam.

Chapter 4: Gaming with a Laptop.

Book VI: Managing Your Power Supply.

Chapter 1: Using Your Power for Good Purposes.

Chapter 2: Replacing or Upgrading Your Power Source.

Chapter 3: Power-Management Utilities.

Book VII: Upgrading Your Laptop.

Chapter 1: Adding RAM.

Chapter 2: Adding or Replacing a Drive: Internal, External, CD,
or DVD.

Chapter 3: Changing Your Input and Output Options.

Chapter 4: Going External with Printer, Network, and Special
Peripherals.

Book VIII: Networking and Linking to the Internet.

Chapter 1: Networking with Other Machines.

Chapter 2: Managing a Windows Network.

Chapter 3: Going Wireless.

Chapter 4: Spinning the Web.

Chapter 5: Exchanging E-mail, IMs, and Newsgroups.

Chapter 6: Communicating with VoIP.

Book IX: Protecting Your Laptop.

Chapter 1: Traveling with a Laptop.

Chapter 2: Guarding Against Intruders.

Book X: Troubleshooting Common Problems.

Chapter 1: Sweating the Hard(ware) Stuff.

Chapter 2: Knowing When Good Software Goes Bad.

Index.