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• Navigate the desktop, including the fast, powerful and fully integrated desktop search function
• Use the Media Center to record TV and radio, present photos, play music, and record all of these to a DVD
• Breeze across the Web with the vastly improved Internet Explorer 7 tabbed browser
• Become familiar with Vista's beefed up security, and much more

Windows Vista is a vast improvement over its predecessors, with an appealing, glass-like visual overhaul, superior searching and organization tools, a multimedia and collaboration suite, and a massive, top-to-bottom security-shield reconstruction. Every corner of the traditional Windows operating system has been tweaked, overhauled, or replaced entirely.

Aimed at new and experienced computer users alike, Windows Vista for Starters: The Missing Manual is right there when you need it. This jargon-free book explains Vista's features quickly and clearly -- revealing which work well and which don't.

Table of Content
Chapter 1: Welcome Center, Desktop, and the Start Menu
Chapter 2: Explorer, Windows, and the Taskbar
Chapter 3: Searching and Organizing Your Files
Chapter 4: Interior Decorating Vista
Chapter 5: Getting Help
Chapter 6: Programs, Documents, and Gadgets
Chapter 7: The Freebie Software
Chapter 8: The Control Panel
Chapter 9: Hooking Up to the Internet
Chapter 10: Internet Security
Chapter 11: Internet Explorer 7
Chapter 12: Windows Mail
Chapter 13: Windows Photo Gallery
Chapter 14: Windows Media Player
Chapter 15: Movie Maker and DVD Maker
Chapter 16: Media Center
Chapter 17: Fax, Print, and Scan
Chapter 18: Hardware
Chapter 19: Laptops, Tablets, and Palmtops
Chapter 20: Maintenance and Speed Tweaks
Chapter 21: The Disk Chapter
Chapter 22: Backups and Troubleshooting
Chapter 23: Accounts (and Logging On)
Chapter 24: Setting Up a Workgroup Network
Chapter 25: Network Domains
Chapter 26: Network Sharing and Collaboration