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Understanding Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium

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Class overview
Understanding Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium Windows Vista® offers a new level of enhanced features and services. Two editions are geared toward home PC users—Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium. This class introduces you to the essentials of Windows Vista, including updating or replacing your PC and bringing entertainment to your PC.
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What you'll learn
  • Learn the essentials of Windows Vista and whether your computer is Vista compatible
  • Explore Windows Vista's new features and interface
  • Customize your system by changing desktop themes, colors, fonts and keyboard and mouse performance
  • Learn how to use the entertainment and mobility features in Vista Home Premium
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Lessons
» Lesson 1: A first look at Windows Vista
Not sure whether Windows Vista is right for your system, or not sure what to buy? In this lesson, you'll learn some of the benefits of Windows Vista, decide whether your system can run the operating system and find out how to upgrade.
Lesson 2: Exploring the Windows Vista interface
Are you wondering about the user experience in Windows Vista? This lesson takes you on a tour of the new interface. You'll find out how running programs and managing files has changed for the better.
Lesson 3: Customizing your Windows Vista experience
Windows Vista is more flexible and customizable than any version before. This lesson shows you how to make the interface your own by changing themes, colors, fonts, keyboard functions, mouse performance and more.
Lesson 4: Exploring Vista Home Premium features
Windows Vista Home Premium offers some great features for managing music and movies, preserving home video clips and photos and entertaining your family. In this lesson, you'll see what Vista has to offer and explore some of these features.
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Instructor
Ed Tittel
Ed Tittel
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In his 20-plus years in the computer industry, Ed Tittel has written or co-written more than 130 technical books and thousands of Web and magazine articles. Ed is a full-time freelance writer, researcher, and consultant who makes most of his living tracking security, networking, and certification topics, then finding interesting things to say about them. Ed has been teaching online since the mid-90s. He also manages his own investment portfolio across a sizable collection of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities, and insurance policies. As retirement gets ever closer, managing investments demands more attention, time, and effort.
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Class reviews

Coho76
Nov 18, 2009

Lessons 1-3 Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium

Completed three lessons and have learned tasks I wasn't familiar with. Some of the material is out of date with Vista Home Premirm and Windows 7. The course is worthwhile and I will finish with Lesson 4 later.

cginn
Nov 14, 2009

Lesson 1

Computers are almost over my head! I think I understand this lesson. I like my Vista. I have an XP also.

mitshell
Nov 4, 2009

I enjoyed lesson 1

Lesson 1 was great and iam looking forward to lesson 2

All2serve
Oct 31, 2009

Okay on explanation

How do you get the computer to play a DVD or rip music?

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