CIG Windows 95: Table of Contents

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Windows 95

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - The Least You Need to Know: A Top 10 list of the most important Windows tasks.
Chapter 2 - Walking in a Windows Wonderland: A quick look at the Windows forest before we start examining all of its trees.
Chapter 3 - From Floppy Disk to Hard Disk: Installing Windows 95: How to foist Windows 95 upon your computer.

Chapter 4 - The Lay of the Windows 95 Land: Hey, you gotta start somewhere! This chapter takes you on a tour of the screen and gives you some mouse and keyboard basics.
Chapter 5 - Making Things Happen in Windows 95: How to get applications up to speed—and how to keeps things under control once you do.
Chapter 6 - Your Click is My Command: Menu and Toolbar Basics: Those sneaky Windows applications hide most of their features in things like pull-down menus and toolbars. This chapter tells you how to get at 'em.
Chapter 7 - Talk to Me: Dealing with Dialog Boxes: The ins and outs of Windows' chatty little beasts: the dialog boxes.
Chapter 8 - Day-to-Day Document Drudgery: Mundane[md]but vital[md]chores such as opening, saving, editing, and closing documents.
Chapter 9 - Windows 95 Printing Particulars: Printing a hard copy of your documents to show off to your colleagues, family, friends, dog, whomever.
Chapter 10 - The "Windows" in Windows 95: Learn what "windows" are and how to control them (before they start controlling you!).

Chapter 11 - A Tour of Your Computer: Using Windows 95 to explore your machine, and understanding just what the heck are files and folders.
Chapter 12 - Fooling Around with Your Files: Fabulous file fun, including copying, moving, renaming, and deleting the poor things.
Chapter 13 - Fiddling with Folders and Floppy Disks: Folder foofaraw such as creating them, copying and moving them, and blowing away ones you don't need. Plus: everything you never wanted to know about floppy disks.

Chapter 14 - Word Processing with WordPad: How to work with WordPad: the little Windows word processor that could.
Chapter 15 - The Art of Windows 95: The Paint Program: Relive your misspent youth by playing with Paint, the next best thing to finger-painting.
Chapter 16 - Working with a Net: Using Microsoft Backup: Practical strategies and techniques for backing up your precious data.
Chapter 17 - Routine Maintenance: The System Tools: Some helpful tools that'll keep your hard disk humming.
Chapter 18 - Everything But the Kitchen Sink: More Accessories: Windows 95 is stuffed with a treasure trove of neat little programs. This chapter introduces you to five of them: Notepad, Calculator, Date/Time, FreeCell, and Minesweeper.
Chapter 19 - Sharing Info Between Programs: Wanna add a Paint picture to your WordPad document? No sweat. This chapter shows you how it's done.
Chapter 20 - The Sights and Sounds of Multimedia: CD-ROMs, sounds, video and much more multimedia madness.
Chapter 21 - The Typology of Type: Working with Fonts: What fonts are and how you can use them to fool everyone into thinking you're a competent professional.
Chapter 22 - An Introduction to Windows 95 Networking: Some painless network know-how: accessing network goodies, sharing your folders and printers, and more.

Chapter 23 - Makeover Time: Customizing the Desktop: You can have it your way: how to customize the Windows 95 desktop to suit your own, inimitable style.
Chapter 24 - The Made-to-Measure Mouse and Keyboard: Tailoring your mouse and keyboard for a perfect fit.
Chapter 25 - Adding New Stuff to Windows 95: Got a new hardware doodad or software doohickey? Let Windows 95 install it for you.
Chapter 26 - Basic Modem Fun: Getting wired with Windows 95's HyperTerminal program. And, as an added bonus: how to get your modem to dial voice calls!
Chapter 27 - Exchanging Messages with Microsoft Exchange: At last! Now you can do all your e-mailing and faxing from one, convenient locale: Microsoft Exchange.
Chapter 28 - Common Windows Complaints: Bad things can happen to good computers. This chapter shows you how to troubleshoot applications that have gone astray.
Chapter 29 - A Smorgasbord of Windows Woes: A potpourri of headaches, problems, and mishaps that can befall the innocent Windows user.
Windows in Cyberspace: The Microsoft Network: How to surf the latest member of the online world: the Microsoft Network.
Speak Like a Geek: The Complete Archive: A crash course in techno-babble.