Microsoft Windows 8 for users - The manual

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“Windows 8 for users - the manual” describes the new Windows 8 user interface, apps, cloud services and much more using practical examples and easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions, thus allowing the user to get to know the new system from the ground up.

 

 

Microsoft Windows 8 for users - The manual

Hardcover: 623 pages
1 CD-ROM PC
Publisher: Microsoft Press Deutschland; Edition: 1., A. (November 13, 2012)
Language: German
ISBN-10: 3866451539
ISBN-13: 978-3866451537

A total of 4 authors set out to write this book, Roland Kloss-Pierro, Dominik Berger, Ralf Ulrich and Daniel Melanchthon.

Step-by-step instructions give a very clear insight into the new Windows 8. All topics are very rich and illustrated in color so that it is easy to understand what the authors are describing. There is hardly a page in the book that does not contain several screenshots. That sounds like confusion, but it is not at all.
Get to know the new user interface or set up a network, no topic is left out.

The book was published Microsoft Windows 8 for users - The manual as hardcover by Microsoft-Press and has a length of 623 pages.
The highlight is the supplied CD, which contains the entire book as an e-book, so that you can rummage through the book on the go.

Text on the back:

Microsoft Windows 8 for users - The manual
Insider knowledge - practical and competent

Comprehensive know-how for daily use of Windows 8 - competent and completely in color. Read in this manual how you can use Windows 8 faster, easier and safer - and have more fun doing it. Using practical examples and easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions, you will get to know the new Windows 8 interface, apps, cloud services and much more from the ground up.

You can find all instructions quickly and easily using the practice index. Benefit from the many years of Windows experience of the team of authors. Extensive insider knowledge at its best: Microsoft Windows 8 for users - the manual.

The content:

Work effectively with Windows

  • The new surface
  • windows touch
  • the new Explorer
  • Windows 8 programs
  • Internet Explorer 10 as an app and classic


Set up and manage Windows

  • Install
  • Set up LAN and WLAN
  • Print
  • Maintain and optimize Windows
  • Manage data carriers optimally


Multimedia and online services

  • Music and video app
  • Edit pictures and videos
  • Cloud and online services (SkyDrive, Mail, Contacts and more)
  • Games


Security and problem solving

  • Virus protection with Windows Defender
  • Windows Firewall
  • Windows Update
  • Family Safety
  • troubleshooting


Appendix

  • Helpful keyboard shortcuts
  • Overview of Windows touch gestures
  • Practice index

 

Links:

The complete table of contents
Preface
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