In early reviews, geeks raved about Windows 7. But if you're an ordinary mortal, learning what this new system is all about will be challenging. Fear not: David Pogue's Windows 7: The Missing Manual comes to the rescue. Like its predecessors, this book illuminates its subject with reader-friendly insight, plenty of wit, and hardnosed objectivity for beginners as well as veteran PC users.

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Well, it’s here. Windows 7 is Microsoft’s latest desktop operating system, and while that’s notable on its own, this time around Microsoft appears to have really gotten it right. With Windows Vista, those in the know fought an uphill battle trying to convince people that it wasn’t as horrible as pundits and know-nothing bloggers claimed. But Windows 7 is different.

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AutoCAD LT 2010 Autodesk Official Training Guide, a training guide for use in Authorized Training Center (ATC®) locations, corporate training settings, and other classroom settings.

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This book isn’t a novel or a mystery, so you don’t have to start at page one and read every chapter in order — you can’t spoil the ending. This book is meant to be digested on a subject-by-subject, not a chapter-by-chapter, basis. Each chapter is self-contained, covering a specific subject. However, because the process of creating the network requires that tasks be performed in a certain order, I recommend that you check out the chapters in either Part I or Part II before you go to any of the other chapters.

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If you have more than one computer in your home, you should have a network. I used to consider that statement an opinion, but it’s so logical that I now think of it as a fact of nature. Nobody has ever presented a convincing (to me) argument that supports keeping multiple computers isolated from each other.

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Welcome to Hacking For Dummies. This book outlines computer hacker tricks and techniques — in plain English — to assess the security of your own information systems, find security vulnerabilities, and fix the vulnerabilities before malicious and criminal hackers have an opportunity to take advantage of them. This hacking is the professional, aboveboard, and legal type of security testing — which I call ethical hacking throughout the book. Computer and network security is a complex subject and an evermoving target. You must stay on top of it to ensure your information is protected from the bad guys.

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In all of networking history, it has never been easier to penetrate a network. IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN technology gives the hacker and networksecurity professional inexpensive — many times free — tools to work with. Whether you are an avid user of Linux or Windows, the tools are everywhere. Due to the enduring and ubiquitous warez community, hackers can obtain even the expensive analysis and penetration tools — such as 802.11-protocol analyzers — with no investment.

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Welcome to the wild, wacky, and wonderful possibilities of the World Wide Web, simply referred to as the Web. In this book, we introduce you to the mysteries of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and its successor, XHTML. Because HTML and XHTML (we use (X)HTML in this book to refer to both versions at the same time) are used to build Web pages, learning them will bring you into the community of Web authors and content developers.

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Welcome to HDTV For Dummies. HDTV is the hottest technology to hit your local electronics store since the advent of cell phones. HDTVs are getting bigger, better, cheaper, more sophisticated, and more useful every day. Since you’ve bought this book, we figure that not only do you agree with us, you’re already part of the HDTV movement. To arms, Comrade!

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Greetings, and welcome to MySpace For Dummies. The last time we checked, there were over 115 million profiles registered on MySpace. When we started writing this book, there were a mere 70 million. By the time our manuscript gets edited, this book is printed and shipped to your neighborhood bookstore, and you pick it up, that number might be over 150 million profiles. Maybe 200 million? 300 million? In short, this MySpace thing is huge and it’s still growing.

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If you ever stumble into some of the geekier discussion forums around the Internet, you may come across a community of people who enjoy modifying, or modding, their PCs. They’re keen on showing off how they changed the look or function of their PC using cutting, painting, and soldering techniques, or by adding stuff — some of it pretty weird — that isn’t normally there. There is a software equivalent of modding: hacking. This is programming changes in software to make it look different or to make it do something it wasn’t designed to.

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This is the perfect handbook for those who need to deploy, install, and configure installations, upgrade from previous versions, understand network addresses, manage day-to-day operations, configure storage, manage users and groups, and more.

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ShareWhat, you say? SharePoint is the server-side connective tissue that binds the slippery client-side outputs of office workers into a manageable, searchable, and accessible information environment. Gone are the days when workers just organized their files in electronic folders and had to call the help desk every time something was deleted accidentally. SharePoint provides a self-service environment where office workers can take control of information - how it’s organized, who gets access to it, and how it’s displayed.

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SQL Server 2005 is the new edition of Microsoft’s SQL Server client-server relational database. It’s a major release; the first in five years. SQL Server 2005 has many new features that help you manage a relational database and, in many editions, adds important new business intelligence functionality.

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Twenty-five years ago, people developed reports using an advanced programming language that usually ran on the mainframe. With the advent of the personal computer in 1982, it was possible to use a programming language called Basic to write some basic reports with formatting. In the mid-1980s, Microsoft Excel came along and many people began to use the formatting capabilities and developing reports directly in Excel. Since then, Excel has continued to be the preferred tool for reporting and analysis for financial analysts and accountants due to its ease of programming formulas and formatting capabilities.

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SQL Server 2005 is Microsoft’s premier relational database product. It’s the big brother of Microsoft Access — and is designed for serious business or enterprise database use, depending on the edition of SQL Server 2005 that you choose. SQL Server offers you enormous flexibility when creating applications based on a SQL Server database. Unless your application requirements are unusually demanding, you can probably find an edition of SQL Server 2005 that allows you to create the application that you want.

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This book is designed to help you get productive with SQL Server 2005 Express as quickly as possible. Chances are that you already have enough on your plate, and wading through reams of database architecture and theory before figuring out how to use the product just isn’t in the cards.

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Welcome to Word 2007 For Dummies, which is a better solution to your word processing pains than taking two aspirin and calling tech support in the morning. This book is your friendly, informative, and entertaining guide to the newfangled way of processing words that is Word 2007.

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Visio is one of the most flexible and easy-to-use drawing products around. Yet, its ease of use doesn’t mean that this product lacks functionality. You can draw anything of just about any complexity you want. The whole focus of Visio is getting your ideas down on electronic paper as quickly as possible. Using this program means that you can think about your ideas, rather than how to perform the next task. Visio 2007 For Dummies introduces you to this very exciting drawing program and demonstrates the ever-growing number of features it provides.

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Welcome to Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies. If you’ve never used desktop publishing software and really aren’t much interested in becoming an expert at it, congratulations! The book you hold in your hands is an excellent choice: It can help you complete your current project quickly — and with the least effort possible. (I’m pretty good at that “least effort possible” stuff. Just ask our editors.)

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Microsoft Office Project 2007, the most recent incarnation of the world’s most popular project management software, offers a tremendous wealth of functionality to users. However, it’s probably not like any other software you’ve ever used, so mastering it can seem a daunting process. One trick is to understand how its features relate to what you do every day as a project manager. Another is to get someone like me to tell you all about its features and how to use them.

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Microsoft Office Project 2007, the most recent version of the world’s most popular project management software, provides a treasure trove of functionality; it makes the features of your average word processing software look like child’s play in comparison.

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Seriously, Microsoft Outlook has been the world’s most popular tool for organizing your business, your life, and your communications for over ten years. I’ve had the pleasure of training literally thousands of people on the power that Outlook can bring to your work and the ways it can simplify your life. People are often amazed when they discover how much they can reduce their daily workload by learning to use Outlook effectively.

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Office Live is Microsoft’s first true foray into Software as a Service (SaaS). And who knows what features are going to be added or modified over the course of the next several years? The cool thing is that you’ll be able to grow right along with Office Live because you’ll be receiving those changes immediately — without having to invest more money in upgrading. And because Microsoft is banking that many people are willing to give Office Live a try, you get a deal that you basically can’t refuse.

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Unlike most programming books, this one is written in plain English, and even normal people can understand it. Even better, it’s filled with information of the “just the facts, ma’am” variety — and not the drivel you might need once every third lifetime.

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