A REALLY good book on Windows 7 ?

[bunyip]

Windows 7 Home Premium came with this machine. So far I love it,but I'm on a learning curve,having used XP Pro for 7 years.


Went out and bought "Windows 7 For Dummies"; it's been of limited help.I want something a bit more advanced/thorough,especially in terms of fixing problems and getting the most out of my machine..

Googling found a book called 'Windows 7: The Definitive Book" by William Stanek. Best price so far is $69.95,from The Book Depository ,in England (free p&h)

I'd be most grateful for opinions and advice about this book,or indeed,a better one.The price is about what I expected.

 

[davehc]

I bought this one, in the early release stages. Darn! Now its free.
My “Windows 7 Power Users Guide” eBook is Now FREE | Mike Halsey's The Long Climb – PC help, support and more…

 

[Phone Man]

Check out the Tutorial section of this forum. Lots of good work done by members of this forum and covers 100's of topics.

Jim

 

[gregrocker]

Yes, the Tutorials ARE the e-Book on Win7. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/

 

[bunyip]

Thanks guys,exactly the kind of thing I was after.

I'll start with the ebook;I recently bought a kindle.

 

[Phone Man]

That free e-book is in PDF format. I use free NitroPDF.

Jim

 

[Tae Song]

The Internet. Books just regurgitate stuff that's already available, and lot of people overlook the intro to Windows material available that comes with Windows.

 

[pincushion]

Can't say I can recommend 'Windows 7 Tweaks' by Steve Sinchak since apart from a few points nothing much to learn that wasn't already known from XP - for me at least.

 

[Corazon]

Experience is the best teacher.

 

[DeaconFrost]

You never need books to learn about Windows. The best way to get used to Windows 7 is to use it, and ask questions as you come across them.

 

[boohbah]

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.

 

[bunyip]

You never need books to learn about Windows. The best way to get used to Windows 7 is to use it, and ask questions as you come across them.

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.

 

[pincushion]

You never need books to learn about Windows. The best way to get used to Windows 7 is to use it, and ask questions as you come across them.

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.

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?

 

[Corazon]

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.

 

[investmenttech]

why now when Windows 8 is just around the corner?

 

[pincushion]

why now when Windows 8 is just around the corner?

If W7 is anything like XP then I can see several more years of usage before updating and I am sure many are not that keen on the first looks of Windows 8 anyway.

 

[bishop101]

I read Windows 7 secrets by Paul Thurrott and Rafael Rivera. Probably won't help advanced users though.

 

[MilesAhead]

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.

 

[bunyip]

why now when Windows 8 is just around the corner?

I was going to wait,but but the HDD on my old PC died. Plus I was bored with it. (had it three years)

 

[seavixen32]

Who needs books when we've got Windows Seven Forums?