Paul McFedries

“Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious ottar of roses out of the otter.” —⁠Mark Twain

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Windows XP

Front cover of the book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Windows XP

Book Info

  • Publisher: Alpha Books
  • Pages: 454
  • Price: US$19.95
  • Pub. date: October 1, 2001
  • Category: operating systems
  • Tags: beginner, Windows, Windows XP

Years of using various incarnations of Windows have made me certifiably paranoid. I've simply come to expect that Windows will do something weird or toss me some semi-comprehensible message that will have me scratching my head for hours. So even though it has been well over ten years since Windows 3.0 was foisted upon an unsuspecting world, Windows remains both devilishly difficult and fiendishly fickle. Windows can, in other words, make any of us feel, temporarily, like a complete idiot. That, in the end, is why I wrote The Complete Idiot's Guide to Windows XP. My goal here is to help you and Windows XP get along. If you aren't a computer wizard (and don't even want to be one), this book is for you; if you have a job to do[md]a job that includes working with Windows XP[md]and you just want to get it done as quickly and painlessly as possible, this book is for you; if you don't want to learn about Windows XP using absurdly serious, put-a-crease-in-your-brow-and-we'll-begin tutorials, this book is for you. Array

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