Discover Windows 95 Author:Dan Gookin, Sandra Hardin Gookin, Sandra Hardin-Gookin There are plenty of weighty tomes available to tell you more than you want or need to know about Windows 95. Discover Windows 95 is different. It's best-selling authors Dan and Sandra Gookin's unofficial Windows 95 manual, a book that tells you what's useful in Microsoft's ballyhooed operating system and that doesn't ramb... more »le on about what can be cheerfully ignored. With Discover Windows 95 -- like all the titles in our new Discover series -- the kind of information you need is always right at hand. You learn not just how to do the basic stuff -- like launch applications and save and print documents -- but also how to take full advantage of capabilities that can make a big difference in your home or office computing, including Multitasking -- You don't have to wait for one application to finish doing something before you move on to something else Getting online -- Windows 95 makes it easy to access the Internet, the World Wide Web, and commercial online services Using DOS applications -- Wait! Don't throw out your beloved DOS programs -- you can still run them with Windows 95 Installing new software and upgrading old software -- Find out how to do it right, or you might just regret it Organize files and folders -- Save yourself from hunting for document needle in the hard disk haystack Installing new hardware and getting it to run with your applications Adding new fonts for better looking, more creative documents Customizing Windows 95 to suit the way you work Troubleshooting documents that won't print (or won't print correctly); files that won't open; CDs that won't play; and more Plus, as all of the titles in our Discover series, Discover the Internet features the 6-Point Advantage Color Tear-Out Card -- Key information and shortcuts that get you up to speed fast Discovery Center -- Quick summaries of the chapters' major points collected at the back of the book Real-Life Vignettes -- Winning stories on how real people use technology to improve their lives Visual Index -- Convenient picture maps direct you to the features you're looking for Web Path -- Handy references to feature- or topic-related Web sites Bonus Section -- Added-value tips and timesaving techniques at the end of each chapter« less