Installing Software

Essential skills for the information age. Master state-of-the-art computer skills quickly and confidently with the Essential Computers series. These clear and concise step-by-step visual guides are designed to help beginners acquire all the techniques necessary to use today's information technology, from word processing and desktop publishing to entertainment and the internet. Installing Software helps you master the basic skills of adding and removing programs on your PC, and performing complete and custom installs from a CD-ROM, installing internet downloads, using a decompression program, downloading and installing a font, upgrading using Windows Update, using patches to fix problems, installing plug-ins, acquiring driver software, and maximizing your hard disk space by uninstalling old programs.

Andy Ashdown and Andrew Easton are both graphic designers, working together on large-scale book publishing projects. Between them they have 20 years' experience of Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh computers, having worked as a production coordinator and software documentation engineer respectively.