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Windows Me has a lot to offer someone who wants to use Microsoft Windows in a home or small-office setting. Author Andy Rathbone competently explains its advantages (as well as some of its shortcomings) in Microsoft Windows Me for Dummies, a fine example of software documentation that appeals to novices without shirking its responsibility to include lots of details. To his credit, Rathbone knows that what's interesting to the Microsoft marketing department isn't necessarily important to most users of Windows Me. That's why he's gone to some trouble to include instructions for such unglamorous but important tasks as duplicating floppy disks and copying text from place to place in a document. About half this book deals with absolutely fundamental Windows subjects, such as running programs by choosing them from the Start menu and moving files around. Rathbone deals with this material ably, though with far fewer illustrations than some readers might wish for. More exotic material, such as using two video monitors at once and the essentials of electronic mail and the Web, gets attention as well. However, Rathbone totally neglects what may be the most exciting new feature of Windows Me, the Home Networking Wizard. Instead, he (and, probably more to the point, his publisher) chose to relegate the Home Networking Wizard to More Windows Me for Dummies. It's a cheap ploy to sell more books. If you're new to Windows and are getting your start with Windows Me, though, this book has what you need. --David Wall, Amazon.com Topics covered: The fundamentals of Windows Me, including program launching, file management, hardware essentials, customisation of Windows Me's look and feel, and the little programs that come with the operating system. There's coverage of the Internet--Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, specifically--as well.
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