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this makes good reading.
Windows 7 Step by Step Book/CD Package: Amazon.co.uk: Joan Lambert, Joyce Cox: Books
however i have learned more here on 7f than i have from a book.
this makes good reading.
Windows 7 Step by Step Book/CD Package: Amazon.co.uk: Joan Lambert, Joyce Cox: Books
however i have learned more here on 7f than i have from a book.
I could not disagree more. I think bumbling along not knowing what you are doing is a very inefficient way to learn anything,but you do what you want.
MY question was about good books on Windows 7,as that's how I like to learn. I've already read 'Windows 7 For Dummies' and found it OK,but limited.
I look forward to expanding my knowledge base.
It seems everyone has their own methods of learning and whilst many will just start using a device without hardly perusing the manual/operating instructions many will have a good look anyway so as not to be surprised. The latter approach when setting up a TV for example could see you not supplying all the information apparently required and thus you lose all the advertising that they have kindly supplied on the Guide menu.
I tend to take the latter approach and have read many books on operating systems over the years but perhaps I am a control freak?
I'm the same way - a control freak. I need to examine everything that's new to me and figure out how it works before I go about setting it up, installing it, configuring it to my tastes, what have you.
So I usually get hung up on a singular issue and start Googling the hell out of it, until I become a self-proclaimed expert on that one issue. My latest foray, for example, was how to clone my system from HD to SSD *and* get it aligned in the process without any third-party tools. Now I could write a tutorial on this.
But back to my point...I'm largely self-taught and just rely on Google and forums like this one.
why now when Windows 8 is just around the corner?
I read Windows 7 secrets by Paul Thurrott and Rafael Rivera. Probably won't help advanced users though.
The best seem to have "undocumented" in the title. At least from a programmer's point of view. There isn't one for Seven yet as far as I know.
Who needs books when we've got Windows Seven Forums? :)