Windows 8 Starter Guide Pcworld Superguides

From the Editors of PCWorld, this Starter Guide will explain how Windows 8 works and show you the new features you can look forward to in Microsoft's latest operating system. Let us guide you through the installation or upgrade process and show you the navigation tools you'll need to familiarize yourself with. Learn about the Modern UI, tiles, and accessing the traditional desktop, as well as keyboard shortcuts. This Starter Guide will explain how Windows 8 works and show you the new features you can look forward to in Microsoft's latest operating system. Let us guide you through the installation or upgrade process and show you the navigation tools you'll need to familiarize yourself with. Learn about the Modern UI, tiles, and accessing the traditional desktop, as well as keyboard shortcuts.

From the Editors of PCWorld, learn to Master Windows 7 with our curated list of tips, tricks, and secret utilities. Learn how to save time closing your apps, stream media to other PCs, download more themes, take control of Windows Update, and many more useful tasks. The 50 essential tips you’ll find in this Superguide will help you work faster and eliminate little daily annoyances. Frustrated by Windows tendency to resize Windows without asking? The guide tells you how to disable that arrangement. Having trouble with your Internet connection? Find out about little-known utilities that keep tabs on your connection. PCWorlds Superguide will also tell you how to add fly-out menus to the Start Menu, remove shovelware, stream media to other PCs, or whip up a system repair disc.

Microsoft’s new operating system may look like a radical departure from Windows 7, but it works, it makes sense, and it’s the future. Numerous small improvements to the desktop user interface make many computing tasks easier to perform. In this book, we help you decide whether to upgrade to Windows 8, the best way to go about doing so, and the biggest changes between this version and previous versions of the operating system.

Windows 8 is rife with features and behaviors that conspire to perplex even the most experienced PC user. Not all of them are bad, but few are immediately intuitive. Making matters worse, Microsoft designed the OS primarily for touch control, and as a result many mouse and keyboard commands feel like tacked-on afterthoughts. But help is on the way. We’ve assembled a list of our favorite Windows 8 shortcuts, tricks, and workarounds. Many focus on making the most of the OS on a traditional desktop PC, but we also have a special chapter devoted to Windows 8 touch gestures.

Windows 8 isn’t just an upgrade…it’s an overhaul. Even if you’ve used Windows for years, it looks new, acts new, and takes some getting used to. Let Gadchick show you how to get the most out of it. This guide is designed to walk you through the most important parts of the operating system, from the basics to learning how to navigate through the OS, to more advance features.

Are you the owner of a new Windows 8 computer and want to learn how to use it? Are you coming from a previous version of Windows and you aren't quite sure where to find things now? Or maybe, you are looking to do a specific task like check email, or view your photos, and you just want simple step by step directions to show you how? Well, you've come to the right place for all of that and more. In this book, Windows 8 User Guide Reloaded : The Complete Beginners' Guide + 50 Bonus Tips to be a Power User Now you will learn the basics of getting around the new Windows 8 environment. In this beginners book you will find instructions on how to do things like:o Getting to know your way around the new Start Screen and Tiles o Learn how to work with Apps o Learn how to setup an internet connection on our computero How to setup and check Emailo How to get on the online Windows Store to download games, Apps, and bookso How to listen to your music and download new music from the online Windows Storeo How to watch your videos and download TV shows and Movies from the Online Windows Storeo Learn how to access your photos from your computer, Facebook, Flickr, and SkyDrive . Plus 50 Bonus tips on how to be a power Windows 8 users today