Product Description

Laptops For Dummies, 3rd Edition shows you how to use your laptop to its fullest potential, from how to purchase a laptop and what to do when you first open the box to how to keep your laptop safe and running smoothly.

You will discover how to choose and purchase the right laptop for you, how to set up and maintain your laptop, customize user accounts, adding your laptop to networks, printing, and connecting to the Internet. In this updated and revised edition, find information about synchronizing with the desktop, coordinating email pickup between two machines, remote access to the desktop, networking, power management, storage, and especially laptop security. You’ll find out how to:

• Navigate all your laptop’s components
• Use keyboard shortcuts and a mouse
• Organize and manage files and accounts
• Print files and add your laptop to a network
• Properly equip your laptop carrying case with tools and resources
• Manage the power supply
• Add software tools to synchronize and update files between a laptop, a PDA, and a desktop or office server

In addition to the basics, find lists of ten battery tips and tricks, ten handy laptop accessories, and ten things you should keep in your laptop carrying case in Laptops for Dummies, 3^rd Edition, a convenient and handy guide!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5081 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
"A great boon for the laptop buyer." (Good Book Guide, January 2007)

“Using plenty of insight laced with humour, Gookin explains the benefits of laptops and shows how to solve problems" (Good Book Guide, May 2007)

From the Back Cover
Mobile is magnificent!

Here′s how to choose, use, and love your laptop

Life is out there waiting — who wants to be stuck behind a desk? Laptops offer freedom, and if you′ve been wary of them, fear no more. Here′s what you do and don′t need in a laptop and how to set it up, use all its features, deal with its oddities, protect it, and more, in the plain English you expect from For Dummies and Dan Gookin.

• Starting at Start — decide what you need in a laptop, understand the parts, and set it up for action

• Windows view — learn how Windows Vista® and SP1 work with your laptop

• More power — monitor and recharge your battery and learn to manage your laptop′s power

• Get connected — safely add your laptop to an existing network or configure a wireless connection

• Ah, memory — store your stuff securely on PC cards, Secure Digital cards, and other devices

• Pain–free Tablets — explore an entire chapter devoted to the often–overlooked Tablet PC

• Hit the road — travel safely with your laptop, protect your data, and outwit laptop thieves

• Shoot down trouble — follow this simple and reassuring advice when something goes wrong

Open the book and find:

• What′s different about the laptop keyboard, and why

• Safe ways to collect your e–mail on the road

• Why saving Web pages is smart

• What to do with a cranky battery

• How (and when) to run System Restore

• How to make your laptop hard to steal

• Things you can add to make laptops more fun

• How to sync your laptop with your desktop

About the Author
Dan Gookin ignited a phenomenon with the first For Dummies book, DOS For Dummies, in 1991. With over 11 million copies in print, his books have been translated into 32 languages.

Customer Reviews

OK, but patronising beyond belief
I would imagine that there are equally informative books that don't confuse the readers' computer illiteracy with his or her being generally thick, as this book seems to. However, there is a wealth of knowledge, tips and fixes that are very useful - but I find I have to grit my teeth to open the pages. You may want to see some reviews on similar books before opting for this one. The only reason I gave it three stars is because of the tips - I'd been struggling to set up a wireless network at home and cracked it in a few minutes with the help of this book. I hate to admit it - but it is helpful.

Laptops for dummies
If you think this book is for dummies then think again!
I got this book out my local library and i thought i would know most of the information in the book but when i got it home and sat down to read it i was wrong because even though i own a laptop of my own which i work on all day i learnt a whole varaity of new things and it was a really good book to read with the odd jock in it or two.

You'll learn stuff you didn't know
Highly recommended. I know a lot of people don't like the folksy style of the Dummies books but they are undoubtedly friendly and unintimidating. This one contains an interesting history of the laptop and many of its suggestions are tip top. It forced me to sit down and look at my laptop properly for the first time, really overhaul the junk that I had on it, sort out its battery life and give it some extra memory. Fantastic! Like having a new machine.