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Rathbone, Andy.

Windows 3.11 for dummies / Andy Rathbone. - 3rd edition. - Foster City, CA ; Indianapolis, IN ; Chicago, IL : IDG books worldwide, Inc., c1995. - xxv, 386 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - For dummies .

Table of Content
Part I: Introducing windows (Bare-Bones stuff)
Chapter 1: What is windows?
Chapter 2: Your PC's parts
Chapter 3: Out of the box and onto the hard drive (Installing Chores)
Chapter 4: Windows stuff everybody thinks you already know


Part II: Making windows do something
Chapter 5: Starting windows
Chapter 6: Examining all those buttons, bars and boxes
Chapter 7: Arranging things (Moving windows around)
Chapter 8: Retrieving a lost window from the pile
Chapter 9: Sharing information (Moving words,Pictures and sounds around)
Chapter 10: Customizing windows (Fiddling with the control panel)


Part III: Using windows applications (Those free programs)
Chapter 11: The Ever-present program manager
Chapter 12: The scary file manager
Chapter 13: Big free programs
Chapter 14: Little free programs


Part IV: Looking at that Darn DOS stuff
Chapter 15: Memory stuff you will want to forget
Chapter 16: Those hoggy DOS Programs


Part V: The case of the broken window
Chapter 17: Error messages (What you did does not compute)
Chapter 18: Help on the windows help system
Chapter 19: Help on windows help system


Part VI: Windows for work-groups
Chapter 20: Windows on a network


Part VII: The tens
Chapter 21: Ten Aggravating things about windows(and how to fix them)
Chapter 22: Ten DOS commands you shouldn't run under windows
Chapter 23: Ten programs that make windows easier (or more fun)
Chapter 24: Ten expensive things you can do to make windows better
Chapter 25: Ten atrocious acronyms



Glossary : p. 364-366 . _ Index ; p. 367-386

ISBN: 9781568843704 1568843704

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Microsoft Windows (Computer file)
DOS programs

Dewey Class. No.: 005.3 / RAT