Windows XP: 101 Hot Tips

by Kelleigh Johnson and Ruth Maran

Produced by the award-winning maranGraphics Group, Maran Illustrated Guide to Windows XP - 101 is a valuable resource for all readers, especially those who are looking to further enhance their XP... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592008828
• ISBN13: 9781592008827
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

How to do Things I Never Thought About Before

I like 'hot tip' books. Every time I pick up one, I find something that I find useful that I never knew about before. When I first picked up this book and started thumbing through it I found Hot Tip #49. It is named "Quickly shut down Windows with a souble-click." How come I didn't know this before? It is certainly something that I can use. I find clicking Start (Ignoring that Start shouldn't mean Stop), then clicking on Turn Off Computer, and then having to confirm that yes, this is really what I want to do to be a drag. This tip, like all the others in the book uses the famous Maran full-color illustrated approach to tell how to do it. I did it on my computer, and everything looked exactly like their illustrations, it took about a minute, and now there's a shortcut named ShutDown on my desktop. There are a hundred and one such hot tips in this book. Many, like "Customize the Mouse for Left-Handed Users," don't interest me. All in all, I set up a handful of things following their directions, and there is another handful that I'm thinking about. What more can you expect out of a little, inexpensive book like this one?