Re: ot window 7 guide?

From	Laszlo Lebrun <lazlo_lebrun@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: ot window 7 guide?
Date	2013-11-27 18:02 +0100
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On 27.11.2013 08:22, M. John Matlaw wrote:
> Trying to help a friend with various things electronic.  Sadly, she's
> using Windows 7 and I don't think she's up to plunging into new hardware
> and a new operating system.  I think she's pretty much at the very early
> stages of computer usage.  When I sent her an e-mail with   the manual
> for her tv attached she didn't know how to download it and I don't think
> she knows how to navigate through directories.
>
> I don't know anything about Windows and I'm reluctant to try anything on
> her computer.  I have a vision of hitting a wrong key and inducing a
> blue screen of death or causing some sort of registry corruption.
>
> I'm wondering if the Windows 7 for Dummies book would be a good
> reference/beginner's guide or if some other book might be more useful.
> Might keep a copy for myself if it was a good enough guide and intro.
> Any suggestions?

If you "have a vision of hitting a wrong key and inducing a  blue screen 
of death or causing some sort of registry corruption" you'd better send 
her a printed copy of the manual per snail-mail. That would probably 
match her's and your's skills  the best.


-- 
One computer and three operating systems, not the other way round.
One wife and many hotels, not the other way round ! ;-)

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ot   window 7 guide? "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2013-11-27 02:22 -0500
  Re: ot   window 7 guide? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-11-27 00:06 -0800
    Re: ot   window 7 guide? "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2013-11-27 05:43 -0500
      Re: ot   window 7 guide? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-11-27 19:03 +0000
        Re: ot   window 7 guide? Laszlo Lebrun <lazlo_lebrun@googlemail.com> - 2013-11-27 21:17 +0100
          Re: ot   window 7 guide? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-11-27 21:48 +0000
            Re: ot   window 7 guide? Laszlo Lebrun <lazlo_lebrun@googlemail.com> - 2013-11-28 02:46 +0100
              Re: ot   window 7 guide? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-11-28 02:29 +0000
            Re: ot   window 7 guide? Laszlo Lebrun <lazlo_lebrun@googlemail.com> - 2013-11-28 02:49 +0100
              Re: ot   window 7 guide? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-11-28 02:30 +0000
                Re: ot   window 7 guide? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-11-28 16:34 +1300
            Re: ot   window 7 guide? Laszlo Lebrun <lazlo_lebrun@googlemail.com> - 2013-11-28 10:12 +0100
              Re: ot   window 7 guide? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-11-28 23:31 +1300
      Re: ot   window 7 guide? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-11-28 16:35 +1300
        Re: ot   window 7 guide? "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2013-11-27 23:45 -0500
        Re: ot   window 7 guide? android <here@there.was> - 2013-11-28 07:09 +0100
          Re: ot   window 7 guide? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-11-28 21:34 +1300
            Re: ot   window 7 guide? Laszlo Lebrun <lazlo_lebrun@googlemail.com> - 2013-11-28 10:17 +0100
  Re: ot   window 7 guide? Laszlo Lebrun <lazlo_lebrun@googlemail.com> - 2013-11-27 18:02 +0100

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