The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Computer Basics 4th
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Time for an upgrade.
This new edition of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Computer Basics places you in charge of the computer, rather than the other way around, and focuses on software troubleshooting rather than on hardware technobabble.
–Features coverage of newsgroups, message boards, and mailing lists
–Goes over the basics of personal finance programs
–Includes a chapter on networking
–Focuses on software, which means it focuses on topics that most affect novice users more info
This is it!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This is the book that will take you from 0 MPH to 60 MPH in the computer world. If you know nothing or very little and are afraid to use your machine you need this book it will talk you through everything you need to know. No crazy jargon or assumptions- this is step by step computer basics. A +
Should be titled Complete Idiots Guide to Windows Basics
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
The first sentance of Chapter 3 says it all: “When you start a PC-compatible computer it automatically runs some version of windows.” Hello? I can go to Dell or Wal-Mart right now and bring home a “PC-compatible” computer, turn it on and not see Windows at all. I get Ubuntu Linux. Basically, any book claiming to be about computer basics should at least lead off with a few pages explaining the different choices a computer buyer has these days. The reader needs to be helped to understand that the first choice they have to make is a basic platform choice. They can go Windows, they can go Mac, or they can go Linux and have it run right “out of the box.”
This book is not about computers, it is about Windows. Computers and Windows are not synonymomous.
Idiot guide not helpful
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
If you have Windows Vista,then this is not the book for you. Also it is just what it says… an idiot’s guide. If you truly are computer illiterate in every sense of the word and have Windows XP then you may benefit from this book. Perhaps it would be a good idea to buy it before purchasing a computer. It would be very helpful to a consumer buying a computer for the first time without access to the Internet or someone who is unsure about it all.