Offers instructions for performing basic computing tasks, including working with Windows, installing software and peripherials, managing files, creating and printing documents, and connecting to and navigating the Internet.

How to Do Everything with Your PC

Computers & Technology

Cowart, Robert

Web Development & Design

McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media

Microsoft Windows Vista in Depth

Operating Systems

Introduces Windows NT, provides advice for system administrators, details the features of the program, and discusses possible future developments

Windows Nt 3.5 Unleashed

Sams.

Taking users beyond the basics, Windows NT 3.x Unleashed reveals the unique features of one of the world's most powerful operating systems. The authors provide in-depth advice on installing, configuring, and managing Windows NT systems, and also offer advice for setting up and administering an NT Server network. The CD-ROM includes utilities, demos, and more.

Windows Nt 3.51 Unleashed

Explains how to set up the operating system, manage the registry, establish and maintin a Web site, integrate an NT network with existing networks, and troubleshoot

Robert Cowart's Windows Nt 4 Unleashed: Professional Reference Edition

Parker, Tim

Office 97 secrets® The Office partner you can depend on With five of the world's leading applications, a treasure trove of supplementary components, and a complete programming language, Office 97 will meet nearly every one of your computing challenges—if you can find the critical tools and techniques hidden inside the powerful software suite. Team up with Office 97 secrets®. More than a guide to the fundamental features and functions of Office 97, this thorough hands-on tutorial/reference will show you hundreds of undocumented shortcuts and advanced tips that will help you make the most of Office 97. You had questions — now you have … secrets®! Uncover all the Office secrets 
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<li>Take complete control of Office 97's advanced customizing techniques</li> <li>Optimize your productivity with the Office Shortcut Bar</li> <li>Master Office 97's hidden file management and data exchange features</li> <li>Build powerful VBA macros to automate tasks</li> <li>Learn expert editing and formatting techniques in Word</li> <li>Explore advanced Excel data analysis features</li> <li>Publish Access databases on the Internet</li> <li>Manage your schedules, contacts, and e-mail with Outlook</li> <li>Create spectacular Web pages with Office 97</li> </ul> CD-ROM Inside! Try out an outstanding selection of over 30 Office 97 freeware &amp; shareware programs including: Program Enhancements <ul>
<li>Office Toys — a Word toolbar with a slew of useful add-on features</li> <li>Power Utility Pak — a top-notch Excel cornucopia including 30 utilities, 40 custom functions, and a full set of shortcut menus</li> <li>Check Writer — an Access application that writes and prints your checks</li> <li>Janitor in a DLL — prevents Outlook from cleaning out important messages</li> </ul> Internet Tools <ul>
<li>Net Diary — an Internet Explorer add-on that automatically keeps track of all the Web sites you visit</li> <li>Infocourier — converts HTML files into stand-alone executable hypertext documents</li> <li>FTP Explorer — makes browsing FTP files so much easier</li> <li>Dunces — fixes the weaknesses in Windows' dial-up networking feature</li> </ul> System and File Compression Utilities <ul>
<li>ClipMate — a must for anyone doing serious editing with Office</li> <li>RADFind — finds any document in a flash from with Office</li> <li>WinUpD8R — synchronizes desktop and notebook versions of your document files</li> <li>4DOS — boosts your command line with many wonderful features</li> <li>WinZip and ZipFolders — must-have utilities if you work with Zip archives</li> </ul> Graphics and Text Editors <ul>
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Office 97 Secrets?

Cummings, Steve

Software

wiley

Completely updated with specific coverage of the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack add-ons now packaged with Windows NT Server 4.0, this new edition of Microsoft Windows NT Server Administrator's Bible brings you everything you need to plan, install, configure, manage, optimize, and connect Windows NT Server 4.0 to the Internet -- including insider tips and stories you just won't find anywhere else. Simply put, if you're looking for the one book that will show you how to get your server up and running fast, this is the book for you.

Microsoft Windows NT Server Administrator's Bible

Sheresh, Beth

Sheresh, Doug

Gregg, Kenneth

In this thorough guide to installing, configuring, tuning, and managing Windows NT Server 4.0 -- one of today's hottest operating systems -- administrators get the tools they need to build Windows NT Web sites; invaluable professional tips, tricks, and shortcuts; and a bonus CD-ROM filled with scripts, utilities, and tools to simplify common tasks. Key topics are covered chronologically, clearly, and in-depth -- from remote access services and fault-tolerance to acting as a Web server, being an application server on a LAN, replacing and working with other network servers, and running Microsoft1s BackOffice suite of services. Best-selling author Robert Cowart has written books on Windows NT and Windows 95 and contributes to Microsoft Systems Journal, PC Week, PC World, PC Magazine, and PC Technical Journal. He built his first computer from spare parts in the early days of the microcomputer revolution. Co-author Kenneth Gregg served as the Windows NT Test Manager for Microsoft and has designed and developed system software at Microsoft, Wang Laboratories, and Texas Instruments. 
On the CD-ROM: <ul>
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Octopus Fault tolerance software to protect your data</li> <li>
Diskeeper A customized online defragmenter for Windows NT</li> <li>
Superdisk NT Allows you to create a RAM disk on your Windows NT system</li> <li>
Kane Security Analyst Assesses the overall security status of your NT system</li> <li>
Perl 5 for NT Hip Inc.1s popular scripting and Internet programming language with NT-specific extensions</li> <li>
GoldFax Server software for adding fax capabilities to NT 4.0</li> <li>
McAfee NetShield Demo Protect your network from viruses</li> <li>
Plus Citrix WinFrame Client, the complete GNU software development environment for Windows NT, Wilsonware1s WinEdit and WinBatch and more</li> </ul>

Windows NT Server 4.0 Administrator's Bible

An introductory guide to dBase IV translates the commands and workings of this powerful database-management software into plain English for newcomers. Original.

The ABC's of dBASE IV 1.5 (Inside Story)

Sybex, Inc.

Based on the popular "ABC's of dBase" series, this user-friendly introduction to the database management software uses a tutorial approach to walk newcomers through the basics of Microsoft Access. Original.

The ABC's of Microsoft Access

Science & Math

Mathematics

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