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Overview

Windows Vista Made Easy" contains everything you need to know to get up to speed quickly and easily with latest operating system from Microsoft. In a 4-part series of lessons targeted at new Windows Vista users, you'll become comfortable with the basic functions and uses for Windows Vista.

"Windows Vista Made Easy" is presented by Dan Gookin, one of the computer industry's most published authors. Gookin's most notable publication "DOS for Dummies" was the world's fastest selling computer book that set in motion the "Dummies" series for Wiley publishing. This self-paced training DVD-ROM is designed so that both beginners and experts can maximize the capabilities of the new Windows Vista OS. A wide range of topics including Windows Vista personalization, general operation, and file management are covered in 4 hours of training.

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Table of Contents

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Introduction

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00:01:14

Windows Vista Orientation and Review

Hello Windows!

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00:05:58

Quitting Windows

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00:07:33

Running Your Programs Introduction

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00:01:08

Running Your Programs

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00:08:34

Saving Your Stuff Introduction

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00:00:44

Saving Your Stuff

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00:05:58

Opening Documents Introduction

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00:00:36

Opening Documents

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00:05:17

Printing Introduction

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00:00:36

Printing

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00:06:35

Getting Help Introduction

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00:00:19

Getting Help

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00:03:50

Working in Windows

First Stop, The Desktop Introduction

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00:00:32

First Stop, The Desktop

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00:07:48

Other ways to run Programs Introduction

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00:00:19

Other ways to run Programs

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00:06:48

Doing Several things at once Introduction

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00:00:32

Doing Several things at once

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00:07:18

Cut and Paste Introduction

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00:00:42

Cut and Paste

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00:06:55

Out on the Internet Introduction

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00:00:45

Out on the Internet

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00:11:10

Into E-Mail

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Into E-Mail

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00:07:17

Installing Software

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00:00:28

Installing Software

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00:06:34

Disks Folders and Files

Computer Storage Introduction

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00:01:11

Computer Storage

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00:06:56

Windows Explorer Introduction

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00:00:19

Windows Explorer

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00:04:28

Exploring folders Introduction

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00:00:31

Exploring folders

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00:06:23

Working with Folders Part 1 Introduction

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Working with Folders Part 1

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00:09:48

Working with Files Introduction

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00:00:35

Working with Files

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00:20:55

Searching for Files Introduction

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00:00:27

Searching for Files

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00:05:35

Working with folders Part 2 Introduction

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Working with folders Part 2

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00:05:04

Burning a DVD or CD Introduction

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00:01:49

Burning a DVD or CD

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00:07:37

Tweaking and Tuning

The Control Panel Introduction

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00:00:27

The Control Panel

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00:09:31

Security: The user Account Control Introduction

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00:00:35

Security: The user Account Control

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00:05:12

Toolbard and Taskbars Introduction

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Toolbard and Taskbars

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00:10:33

Setting up the Screen Introduction

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00:00:26

Setting up the Screen

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00:11:02

Working with Sidebar Introduction

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Working with Sidebar(PREVIEW)

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00:07:19

Windows Media Player Introduction

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00:00:38

Windows Media Player

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00:09:14

Conclusion

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