Are there any books about Windows 8?

Do you have any books about Windows 8 with tips, tricks and all the
fundamental knowledge we need to operate the system with perfection? I wish
to be a master at home but I need also to know the configuration of DNS
servers on router side and Internet Explorer to run faster. The information
provided in Windows help is quite insuficient to go on with my age as I
can't learn anymore hard things because I'm getting less apprehensive each
day I spend over here. Your help is good but I don't want to ask you
directly the Windows 8 basic information. Maybe this is not a real problem
that deserves your attention. Just wondering if there is a next mission.

The Scream wrote on 3/2/2015 1:27 AM:
Do you have any books about Windows 8 with tips, tricks and all the
fundamental knowledge we need to operate the system with perfection? I wish
to be a master at home but I need also to know the configuration of DNS
servers on router side and Internet Explorer to run faster. The information
provided in Windows help is quite insuficient to go on with my age as I
can't learn anymore hard things because I'm getting less apprehensive each
day I spend over here. Your help is good but I don't want to ask you
directly the Windows 8 basic information. Maybe this is not a real problem
that deserves your attention. Just wondering if there is a next mission.

There are a lot of apps in the windows app store you can install. I can't list them, you'd just have to experiment.
Some are shortcut keys too, some how to navigate etc. I don't think they go into detail though. Most of my
knowledge of windows 8 is purely years of usage. Just poking my nose into things and questioning it. That and google.

The Scream wrote:
Do you have any books about Windows 8 with tips, tricks and all the
fundamental knowledge we need to operate the system with perfection? I
wish to be a master at home but I need also to know the configuration of
DNS servers on router side and Internet Explorer to run faster. The
information provided in Windows help is quite insuficient to go on with
my age as I can't learn anymore hard things because I'm getting less
apprehensive each day I spend over here. Your help is good but I don't
want to ask you directly the Windows 8 basic information. Maybe this is
not a real problem that deserves your attention. Just wondering if there
is a next mission.

There is a book for the original Windows 8, from Dell.

I don't know how much that will help you though.

Since you know how to post to USENET, you must have
a few clues, and this will likely insult your intelligence.

( 11,198,489 bytes )

https://marketing.dell.com/Global/Fi...ws-8-ebook.pdf

The only real trick, in Windows 8 original release,
was escaping from a Metro full-screen application
with Alt-F4. That was fixed on Windows 8.1 with the
addition of an "X" in the upper right hand corner,
to dismiss the program.

As far as I know, Alt-F4 still works. If you Alt-F4
when a window has the focus, the program will close.
If you click the desktop surface and enter Alt-F4,
then the OS will shut down. So it is a dual-usage
hotkey sequence.

Paul

The Scream wrote:
Do you have any books about Windows 8 with tips, tricks and all the
fundamental knowledge we need to operate the system with perfection? I
wish to be a master at home but I need also to know the configuration of
DNS servers on router side and Internet Explorer to run faster. The
information provided in Windows help is quite insuficient to go on with
my age as I can't learn anymore hard things because I'm getting less
apprehensive each day I spend over here. Your help is good but I don't
want to ask you directly the Windows 8 basic information. Maybe this is
not a real problem that deserves your attention. Just wondering if there
is a next mission.



Free Windows 8 e-book from Microsoft press which provides
detailed tutorials and instructions to find and use new features
present in Windows 8.

Don't be misled by the title quite a bit of content provides general
information and value

http://go.microsoft.com/FWLink/?Linkid=268295

'Introducing Windows 8: An Overview for IT Professionals'
Following are some areas covered by this e-book:
Hardware requirements
Windows 8 editions or SKUs
Using Start Screen and Metro apps
Using Metro UI and hot corners
New features of Windows Explorer (which is now known as File Explorer)
New features of Task Manager
Customizing and configuring Windows 8
Client Hyper-V
Windows PowerShell 3.0
Networking enhancements
Windows To Go feature
Deploying Windows 8
Group Policy and Security in Windows 8
Developing Metro apps for Windows 8
Windows 8 recovery (Refresh or Reset PC)
Using Internet Explorer 10

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....winston
msft mvp consumer apps

"The Scream" wrote:

Do you have any books about Windows 8 with tips, tricks and all the
fundamental knowledge we need to operate the system with perfection? I wish
to be a master at home but I need also to know the configuration of DNS
servers on router side and Internet Explorer to run faster. The information
provided in Windows help is quite insuficient to go on with my age as I
can't learn anymore hard things because I'm getting less apprehensive each
day I spend over here. Your help is good but I don't want to ask you
directly the Windows 8 basic information.


Maybe this book will be useful to you.

"Windows 8 for Dummies"
http://www.it-ebooks.info/book/1084/

Or the smaller pocket edition
http://marketing.dell.com/windows-8-ebook

The Scream wrote:

Do you have any books about Windows 8 with tips, tricks and all the
fundamental knowledge we need to operate the system with perfection?

Yes, "we" the Internet have lots of resources many of which can be
discovered through online search.

I wish to be a master at home

So what's wrong with checking if your local library carries books on
Windows 8? My public library has dozens of books on Win8 (I didn't
bother counting how many before their search got off-topic). Many of
those are e-books so you don't have to return them after an expiration
for paper books.

but I need also to know the configuration of DNS servers on router
side

That's not a Windows 8 issue. Learning DNS is a whole different topic
that is mostly OS independent. DNS works the same way whether the
client issuing the lookup request is Windows, Linux, or something else.

and Internet Explorer to run faster.

Your public library may have books on that, too. Plus your own online
searches will reveal lots of tweaks to supposedly make IE run faster
(although the best config is the basic or install-time config with no
add-ons or BHOs and outside of IE for networking performance is what
will determine speed, plus the sites you visit will determine response
time to completely render a page.

The information provided in Windows help is quite insuficient to go on
with my age as I can't learn anymore hard things because I'm getting
less apprehensive each day I spend over here.

Over here? You're on the other side of the rainbow? How's the wizard
doing after all these years? Do you have public libraries "over there"?

The included information is insufficient because you can't learn? Then
your request for more information makes even less sense. I suspect you
didn't mean what you said so I'll guess you meant to say Windows help is
inadequate to learn admin skills for Windows, you've gotten old and
learning is harder (an excuse), and you are getting MORE apprehensive
each day (on what you never mentioned) when using Windows at home (my
guess at what is "over here").

Getting old is not an excuse for not learning. You've already expressed
that you want to learn more about Windows 8. Since it is self-motivated
for your own use, your pace is up to you. When it starts to get too
hard, slow down and retry. No one is testing you on your expertise.

Your help is good but I don't want to ask you
directly the Windows 8 basic information. Maybe this is not a real problem
that deserves your attention. Just wondering if there is a next mission.

You compose your article as though you think Microsoft bothers to visit
Usenet. Microsoft doesn't visit Usenet. They don't even bother to
visit their own microsoft.public.* newsgroups when Microsoft had a
server for Usenet and even after Microsoft left Usenet. It's not our
[Windows included] help. It's Microsoft's.

It's your choice what is YOUR next "mission". If it is learning more
about Windows 8, go see what your public library carries or do online
searches for tutorials and training materials.

By the way, since Windows has relied on its registry database for a long
time for configuration of the OS and apps, you might want to include a
book on the Windows Registry. While more has been added to the
registry, even a book a decade old or telling you about the Windows 2000
registry will give you a ton of information about it.

On 3/2/15 1:11 AM, VanguardLH wrote:
I suspect you
didn't mean what you said so I'll guess you meant to say Windows help is
inadequate to learn admin skills for Windows, you've gotten old and
learning is harder (an excuse), and you are getting MORE apprehensive
each day (on what you never mentioned) when using Windows at home (my
guess at what is "over here").

Unfortunately, sometime age is a valid excuse for learning being harder.
Wish it weren't so. :-(

It used to be, I could read/see/hear someone explain the steps to do X
on a computer, and I was good to go. Not so anymore, short term memory
just isn't what it used to be. :-(

These days, sometimes it takes simple repetition of the same steps to
get things to "stick", then I'm good to go. :-)

--
Ken
Mac OS X 10.8.5
Firefox 33.1
Thunderbird 31.0
"My brain is like lightning, a quick flash
and it's gone!"

The Scream brought next idea :
Do you have any books about Windows 8 with tips, tricks and all the
fundamental knowledge we need to operate the system with perfection? I wish
to be a master at home but I need also to know the configuration of DNS
servers on router side and Internet Explorer to run faster. The information
provided in Windows help is quite insuficient to go on with my age as I can't
learn anymore hard things because I'm getting less apprehensive each day I
spend over here. Your help is good but I don't want to ask you directly the
Windows 8 basic information. Maybe this is not a real problem that deserves
your attention. Just wondering if there is a next mission.

If all else fails there is always Amazon. I can't imagine they wouldn't
have quite a few books on W8.

Ed P.

"Ashes" wrote in message ...
"The Scream" wrote:

Do you have any books about Windows 8 with tips, tricks and all the
fundamental knowledge we need to operate the system with perfection? I
wish
to be a master at home but I need also to know the configuration of DNS
servers on router side and Internet Explorer to run faster. The
information
provided in Windows help is quite insuficient to go on with my age as I
can't learn anymore hard things because I'm getting less apprehensive
each
day I spend over here. Your help is good but I don't want to ask you
directly the Windows 8 basic information.


Maybe this book will be useful to you.

"Windows 8 for Dummies"
http://www.it-ebooks.info/book/1084/

Or the smaller pocket edition
http://marketing.dell.com/windows-8-ebook

A book that I've found very useful is:

Migrating to Windows 8.1 Andy Williams 2014 978-1-494-95793-3

It is written from the perspective of "you know quite a lot about older
versions of Windows (*) but want to know how to transfer that knowledge to
Windows 8 which looks completely different". As such it is blissfully free
of the rather nauseating on-message "Windows 8 is wonderful" sentiments of
other books that I've read which suggest that even independent authors had
been paid to say only good things about Windows 8.

The more I use Windows 8, the more I'm coming to the conclusion that it's
not *all* bad: under the bonnet it may well be better, faster, more secure
and many of the other things hat MS say about it. Sadly all of that counts
for nothing if your first and lasting impression is the appalling Metro
interface and the tiles for launching programs. With the installation of
Classic Shell to give you back the missing Start Menu, it's not radically
different to Windows 7 - as long as you take precautions to change default
file types so none of the common file types JPG, GIF, PDF etc invoke Metro
Apps, and invoke older Windows apps instead, with proper menu bars,
max/min/close buttons etc.

As a matter of interest, without the Start Menu, what is the
Microsoft-approved method for locating the exe file for a newly-installed
programme to add a shortcut to it onto the desktop? Are you expected to
navigate through c:\Program Files and c:\Program Files (86) to find the
correct folder and then hunt for the correct exe file within it? I always
install Classic Shell and then find the entry in Start Menu / All Programs
which the installation has placed there, right-click on it, copy, then
right-click/Paste Shortcut on the desktop. Then you know that you are
pasting a shortcut the points to the right thing!

As far as I know, you can't right-click/copy from the tile on the Tiles
screen, go to the desktop and paste it - copy/paste doesn't seem to survive
switching between Tiles and Desktop.



(*) I was tempted to replace "older versions of Windows" with "real Windows
before MS f**ked it up" :-)

On 02/03/2015 20:28, NY wrote:
"Ashes" wrote in message ...
"The Scream" wrote:

Do you have any books about Windows 8 with tips, tricks and all the
fundamental knowledge we need to operate the system with perfection?
I wish
to be a master at home but I need also to know the configuration of DNS
servers on router side and Internet Explorer to run faster. The
information
provided in Windows help is quite insuficient to go on with my age as I
can't learn anymore hard things because I'm getting less apprehensive
each
day I spend over here. Your help is good but I don't want to ask you
directly the Windows 8 basic information.


Maybe this book will be useful to you.

"Windows 8 for Dummies"
http://www.it-ebooks.info/book/1084/

Or the smaller pocket edition
http://marketing.dell.com/windows-8-ebook

A book that I've found very useful is:

Migrating to Windows 8.1 Andy Williams 2014 978-1-494-95793-3

It is written from the perspective of "you know quite a lot about older
versions of Windows (*) but want to know how to transfer that knowledge
to Windows 8 which looks completely different". As such it is blissfully
free of the rather nauseating on-message "Windows 8 is wonderful"
sentiments of other books that I've read which suggest that even
independent authors had been paid to say only good things about Windows 8.

Sounds good . I was pretty conversant with XP ( and odd UNIXs) and
bought Windows 8 in Depth - QUE and found it pretty useless for
answering the questions I had. So you may want to cross that off your list.