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| PC Overview | |
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| What You See: Basic Hardware | |
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| What You See: Console - the Front | |
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| What You See: Console - the Back | |
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| What You See: Console - the I/O Panel | |
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| I/O Symbol Table | |
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| The Basics: What Is a PC? | |
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| Hardware | |
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| Software | |
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| You | |
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| The Basics: Types and Models of PCs | |
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| The Basics: Inside the Console | |
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| The Basics: Adding Hardware | |
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| Internal expansion | |
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| External expansion | |
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| The Basics: Windows | |
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| The Basics: The Internet | |
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| The Basics: Your Stuff | |
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| Knowing about files | |
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| Working with files in Windows | |
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| Organizing files in Windows | |
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| Connectinq Stuff | |
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| About Computer Cables | |
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| Audio | |
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| Digital Camera | |
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| Digital Media Player | |
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| IEEE | |
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| Joystick | |
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| Keyboard | |
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| Microphone | |
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| Modem | |
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| Monitor | |
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| Mouse | |
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| Network | |
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| Optical Audio | |
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| Power | |
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| Printer | |
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| S-Video | |
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| Scanner | |
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| Serial | |
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| Speakers | |
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| USB Port | |
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| Wireless Gizmos | |
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| Installing Hardware and Software | |
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| The Add Hardware Icon | |
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| Adding New Hardware | |
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| Adding an external dialup modem | |
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| Adding a non-USB joystick | |
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| Inserting an Expansion Card | |
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| Installing Memory | |
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| Removing Memory | |
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| Removing USB Storage Devices | |
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| Software Installation | |
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| Installing software from a CD or DVD | |
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| Installing software you downloaded from the Internet | |
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| Uninstalling Software | |
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| The On-Off Thing | |
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| Changing the Power Button's Function | |
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| Changing the Start Menu's Power Button Function | |
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| Forcing the Computer Off | |
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| Hibernation | |
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| Logging On and Off | |
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| Logging in | |
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| Logging off | |
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| Locking the Computer | |
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| Quitting Windows | |
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| Restarting Windows | |
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| Sleep (Stand By) Mode | |
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| Putting your PC to sleep | |
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| Automatically going into sleep mode | |
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| Waking the computer | |
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| Switching Users | |
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| Turning the Computer System Off | |
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| Turning the Computer System On | |
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| The Uninterruptible Power Supply | |
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| Popular Places in Windows | |
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| Account Folder | |
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| All Programs Menu | |
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| Starting a program | |
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| Popular menus on the All Programs menu | |
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| The Startup submenu | |
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| Creating a desktop shortcut to a program | |
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| Putting a program on the Quick Launch bar | |
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| Pinning a program to the Start menu | |
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| Organizing the All Programs menu | |
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| Computer | |
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| Control Panel | |
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| Desktop | |
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| Network | |
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| Notification Area | |
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| Controlling the notification area | |
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| Controlling the visibility of the notification area icons | |
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| Recycle Bin | |
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| Start Menu | |
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| Changing the Start menu's look | |
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| Configuring the Start button's menu | |
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| Taskbar | |
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| Locking and unlocking the taskbar | |
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| Moving the taskbar | |
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| Resizing the taskbar | |
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| Setting taskbar options | |
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| Other toolbars | |
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| Quick Launch bar | |
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| Moving a toolbar | |
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| Removing a toolbar | |
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| Disk Storage | |
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| About Disk Storage | |
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| Long-term and short-term storage | |
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| Disks and media | |
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| Saving and loading | |
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| AutoPlay | |
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| Bits and Bytes | |
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| CD-ROM and DVD Drives | |
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| Types of shiny discs | |
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| Playing a music CD or movie DVD | |
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| Drive Icons | |
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| Drive Letters | |
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| Disk drives A-B-C | |
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| Drive D and beyond | |
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| Drive Z | |
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| Changing drive letters | |
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| Ejecting a Removable Disk | |
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| Ejecting a floppy disk | |
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| Ejecting a CD or DVD | |
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| Ejecting other media | |
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| The Floppy Drive | |
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| Formatting floppies | |
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| Copying a file to Drive A | |
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| Floppy do's and don'ts | |
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| Hard Disks and Drives | |
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| Inserting a Removable Disk | |
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| Inserting a floppy disk | |
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| Inserting a CD or DVD | |
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| Inserting media into a card reader | |
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| Putting a Drive's Shortcut Icon on the Desktop | |
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| Types of Storage | |
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| Working with Removable USB Drives | |
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| The Stuff You Create | |
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| About a File | |
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| Describing a file | |
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| Common file icons | |
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| Viewing file details in Windows Explorer | |
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| A file's Properties dialog box | |
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| Creating Files | |
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| Finding Lost Files | |
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| Searching from the Start menu | |
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| Summoning the Search window | |
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| Finding a file when you know its name | |
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| Finding a file when you just created it recently | |
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| Finding a file when you know what type of file it is | |
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| Finding a file when you know that it contains a specific word | |
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| Managing Files | |
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| Copying files | |
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| Duplicating files | |
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| Moving files | |
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| Making file shortcuts | |
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| Deleting files | |
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| Permanently deleting files | |
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| Undeleting files | |
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| Recovering the previous version of a file | |
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| Naming and Renaming Files | |
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| The filename extension | |
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| Renaming a file | |
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| Filename wildcards | |
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| Opening Files | |
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| Pathnames | |
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| Saving Files | |
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| Saving for the first time | |
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| Saving after the first time | |
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| Closing a document | |
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| Selecting Icons | |
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| Selecting a single icon | |
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| Selecting all icons in a window | |
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| Selecting more than one icon | |
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| Lassoing a group of icons | |
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| Selecting all but a few icons | |
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| Grabbing a range of icons | |
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| Selecting two ranges of icons | |
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| Deselecting an icon from a group | |
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| Organizing Your Stuff | |
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| About Folders | |
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| About Windows Explorer | |
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| Around the Windows Explorer window | |
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| The Address bar | |
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| Managing your favorite folders | |
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| The tree structure | |
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| The toolbar | |
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| Compressed (Zip) Folders | |
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| Making an empty compressed folder | |
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| Adding files to a compressed folder | |
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| Making a compressed folder from one or more files | |
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| Extracting files | |
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| Directories | |
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| Folder Options | |
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| Choosing a folder template | |
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| Adding a picture to a folder's icon | |
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| Changing a folder icon | |
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| Folders for Your Stuff | |
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| Managing Folders | |
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| Making a new folder | |
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| Renaming, copying, moving folders | |
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| The Root Folder | |
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| Subfolders | |
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| Printing | |
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| Adding a Printer | |
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| Finding a home for the printer | |
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| Connecting the printer | |
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| Printer software setup | |
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| On and selected? | |
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| Setting up a USB printer | |
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| Forcing Windows to recognize the printer | |
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| Adding a network printer | |
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| Adding more than one printer to a single PC | |
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| The Default (Favorite) Printer | |
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| Envelopes | |
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| Configuring your document as an envelope | |
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| Printing on an envelope | |
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| Ink and Toner | |
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| Ink cartridges | |
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| Toner | |
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| Ink and toner tips | |
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| Paper | |
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| Buying paper | |
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| Adding paper to the printer | |
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| Paper tips | |
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| The Printer's Control Panel | |
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| Print Preview | |
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| Printing | |
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| The Print command | |
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| Choosing a printer | |
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| Printing multiple copies | |
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| Printing a single page or range of pages | |
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| Printing the Screen | |
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| Printing a Test Page | |
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| Stopping the Printer | |
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| Turning the Printer On and Off | |
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| Types of Printers | |
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| Inkjet printers | |
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| Laser printers | |
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| Uninstalling a Printer | |
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| Networking | |
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| About Networking | |
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| Accessing a Shared Folder | |
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| Accessing a Wireless Network | |
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| Adding a Shared Folder to Your Disk System | |
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| Mapping a folder to a disk drive | |
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| Unmapping a folder | |
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| Checking the Network Connection | |
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| Checking the Network window | |
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| Checking the Network and Sharing Center window | |
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| Using the little networking guys | |
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| Connecting to a Network | |
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| The NIC | |
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| The network cable | |
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| Configuring the network | |
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| The Network and Sharing Center | |
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| The Network Connections Window | |
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| The Network Window | |
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| The PC's IP Address | |
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| The PC's MAC Address | |
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| The PC's Network Name | |
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| The Public Folder | |
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| Sharing the Public folder on the network | |
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| Unsharing the Public folder | |
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| Repairing a Network Connection | |
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| Sharing a Folder | |
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| Making a folder on your PC available to the network | |
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| Unsharing a folder | |
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| Sharing a Printer | |
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| Using a Network Printer | |
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| Which Folders Are You Sharing? | |
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| Workgroups | |
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| Creating Your Own CDs and DVDs | |
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| Checking to See Whether You Have a Recordable Drive | |
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| Creating a Musical CD | |
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| Destroying a Disc | |
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| Disc Formats | |
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| Disc Types | |
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| The CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R | |
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| The CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM | |
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| Erasing an RW Disc | |
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| Writing to a Disc in Windows | |
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| Initializing a recordable or rewritable disc | |
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| Working with a Live File System disc | |
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| Working with a Mastered disc | |
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| The Keyboard | |
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| Accessing Menus with the Keyboard | |
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| The Any Key | |
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| Controlling a Window with the Keyboard | |
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| Dead Keys | |
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| The Help Key | |
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| Keyboard Basics | |
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| Keyboard layout | |
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| Shift keys | |
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| Lock keys | |
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| Keyboard Shortcuts | |
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| Keyboard Types | |
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| Keys for Editing Text | |
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| Names for Funky Keys | |
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| Setting the Repeat Delay and Repeat Rate | |
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| Special Keys | |
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| The Mouse | |
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| Basic Mouse Activities | |
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| Changing the Double-Click Rate | |
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| Connecting a Mouse | |
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| Extra Mouse Buttons | |
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| Increasing the Mouse Pointer Visibility | |
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| Left-Handed Mouse | |
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| The Mouse Pad | |
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| Mouse Pointers | |
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| Making the pointer go faster or slower | |
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| Choosing a new pointer | |
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| Using an animated pointer | |
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| Loading a set of pointers | |
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| Saving your own set of pointers | |
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| Mouse Types | |
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| Air mouse | |
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| Mechanical, or ball, mouse | |
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| Optical mouse | |
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| Trackball mouse | |
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| Wireless mouse | |
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| Glossay: Tech Talk | |
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| Index | |