... Other Hardware 77 1
Chapter 1: Finding and Installing the Hardware You Need 77 3
Knowing What Windows 7 Wants 77 4
Upgrading the Basic Stuff
77 5
Choosing a new monitor
77 6
Changing resolutions ... Effortlessly 811
Installing a Printer 812
Attaching a local printer
812
Connecting a network printer
814
Using the Print Queue
8 17
Displaying a print queue
818
Pausing an...
... part of Windows 7. Sorta.
Contents
Chapter 4: Managing Pics with
Windows Live Photo Gallery 375
Getting the Gallery Going 376
Leafing through the Gallery 378
Adding Photos to the Photo Gallery ... tie in, reasonably well, with
Windows Live Photo Gallery, which I discuss in detail in Book IV, Chapter 5
and Windows Live Movie Maker, which you can find in Book IV, Chapter 6....
... the Internet? 444
Getting Inside the Internet 445
What Is the World Wide Web? 448
Who Pays for All This Stuff? 450
Connecting with Broadband 4 51
Setting Up an Internet Connection 455
Finding Internet ... 6
Setting Up
Media Center
433
Setting Up Media Center
Setting Up Media Center
With Windows 7 finally cowed into subservience, at last you’re ready to set
up Windows Media Center...
... you’re allowed to uninstall the patch,
Windows 7 does it for you.
Contents
Chapter 3: Maintaining Your
System 13 3
Coping with Start-Up Problems 13 3
Working with Backups 13 8
Maintaining Drives 15 2
Using ... built into
any version of Windows.
Book II
Chapter 4
Getting the Basic
Stuff Done
1 97
Calculating — Free
1 97
Calculating — Free
Windows 7 includes a capable...
... the
underlying
folder
structure.
Chapter 4: Beating and Cheating
Windows 7 Games
In This Chapter
✓Playing the Windows 7 games
✓Beating the Windows 7 games
✓Cheating the Windows 7 games
T
...
that started
in the Start
menu.
Indexing for Fun and Profit
At the heart of the Windows 7 search feature sits the index. Much like the
index in this book, the Win...
... Engine Can Do for You
Figure 5 -1:
Google’s
search for
the longest
river in Asia.
The number -one result points to the Scottish Indoor Bowls Web site —
surely a definitive source of information ...
shown in Figure 6 -14 .
Figure 6 -14 :
Windows
Live Mail
applies its
shrinking
technology
to all
pictures
attached
to the
message.
2. Choose one compression s...
... clue.
Choosing an Update Level
When you install Windows 7, or when you first start a new Windows 7 PC,
Windows greets you with one of the most biased questions in all of com-
puter-dumb, er, -dom. Windows ... clicking Disable
Rule.
Coping with the Windows 7 Outbound Firewall
The Windows 7 outbound firewall doesn’t work, look, or behave anything
like the inbound fire...
... Building Your Network
73 5
Planning Your Network 73 6
Using Internet Connection Sharing 74 0
Installing (or Reinstalling) Your Network 74 2
More Troubleshooting 74 7
Book VII
Chapter 2
Setting Up ... they’re running Windows 7. For example, you can stick
a Windows XP computer’s folders inside a Windows 7 library (and thus, if
you like, a Windows 7 HomeGroup). You can use...