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Introducing a complete guide to deploying and managing Windows 7 that is suitable for IT professionals and students alike! This instructional text provides the information users need to successfully migrate to Windows 7 and immediately derive benefits from it. Readers will learn about the new features in Windows 7, such as advanced security, and how those features compare to Windows Vista and Windows XP. Valuable for professionals, but written in a way that is understandable to the novice networking student, this informative guide examines Windows 7 in a thorough and logical manner making the information easy to understand and preparing readers for Microsoft's MCTS Exam #70-680. The hands-on activities and case projects help learners practice new skills, and review questions and key terms reinforce important information. The accompanying CD provides valuable certification preparation material, including test preparation software. With a section devoted to troubleshooting, this text also doubles as a manual that professionals can take on the job with them. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Here's a complete guide to deploying and managing Windows Vista that is suitable for IT professionals and students alike! By 2007, Windows Vista, the newest desktop operating system from Microsoft, will be installed on millions of computers. It is anticipated that the numbers will only grow from there. This instructional text provides information users need to successfully migrate to Windows Vista and immediately begin deriving benefits from it. Readers will learn the differences between the new system and the old, including Vista's additional functionalities, and its advanced security features. Written with the novice networking student in mind, this informative guide examines Windows Vista in a thorough, logical, organized manner to ensure that all information is easily understood. The Hands-on Activities and Case Projects help students practice new skills, and review questions and key terms reinforce important information. The accompanying CD provides valuable certification preparation material, including test preparation software. With the new section devoted to troubleshooting, this text also doubles as a manual that professionals can take on the job with them. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
In the wee hours of a November morning in 2007, a truckload of recycled cars forces an SUV into the dark waters of Hood Canal. The passengers, Carson Barrus and his wife Naomi, submerge carrying all of their discontent with them. Carson frees himself from the sinking vehicle and crawls out of the canal knowing his wife is dead. From the shadows, he bears witness to his own death before disappearing into the darkness. He drifts into Oregon, where he is taken in by an unlikely set of allies in Wasco County at a place called The Dalles. There he assumes a new identity and sets out in search of a child born somewhere in Oklahoma four years earlier: a child he's never seen, a boy born to his baby sister, Aleta, a child she wasn't allowed to keep-and with her suicide a child who will never know his mother's touch. Carson's latent obsession over his sister's child pushes aside all logic. He's been given an unrestrained moment to do what he should have done back when it mattered. Behind the mask of his supposed death, he proceeds to right a wrong.
The Lab Manual provides students with the hands-on instruction necessary to prepare for the certification exam and deploy and manage Windows 7. Designed for classroom-led or self-paced study, labs complement main text content and offer a unique, practical approach to learning that is a key component to the exams. The Lab Manual includes lab activities, objectives, materials list, step-by-step procedures, illustrations and review questions. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
When assailants crash into their house, Ashley and Ned Pine are completing another dispirited meal; between them they have spoken perhaps six words. Ned is considering that imperfection when the kitchen door shatters and three black-booted attackers burst in wielding aluminum bats and no explanations. In response to Ashley's shrieking and Ned's profane question, crushing blows fall. Ned Pine comes to in the Latham Idaho Community Hospital; his head is throbbing from a concussion, he is sporting a broken arm and has assorted lacerations. Rousing from a drug-induced slumber he finds his father-in-law, Isaac Tucker, standing at the foot of his bed stone-faced and bitter. The two men despise each other. Tucker is only there to tell Ned that Ashley has been transferred to the trauma center in Pocatello-that she is ruined and in a deep coma. No one knows what is behind the assault.With this startling beginning, George Byron Wright has set the stage for a captivating story launched by unknown evil intent and driven by traumatic loss. Ned Pine finds himself isolated and struggling to rediscover who he is, has been, and perhaps will be. From a damning misfired life, he decides to separate from all he knows: his comatose wife, his career, the town, and the house she loved but he didn't. Into that void emerges an old hippie uncle who out of the chaos invites his nephew to come bunk with him above his thrift shop in the blue-collar neighborhood of St. Johns in Portland, Oregon. With options limited to slim and none, Ned agrees.Once there, he finds solace, people who befriend him, and perhaps one who may even love him. But the forces invested in Ashley are committed to monitoring her seemingly irreversible coma and exert pressure on Ned; he is accused of many things. The question he continues to pursue with the help of a sympathetic detective back in Latham is: Who is behind the heinous attack and why were Ashley and he singled out? The answer lies in convoluted layers of Ned Pine's life.
Prepare for a career in network administration using Microsoft Windows 10 with the real-world examples and hands-on activities that reinforce key concepts in MICROSOFT SPECIALIST GUIDE TO MICROSOFT WINDOWS 10. This book also features troubleshooting tips for solutions to common problems that readers will encounter in Windows 10 administration. This book’s in-depth study focuses on all of the functions and features of installing, configuring, and maintaining Windows 10 as a client operating system. Activities let learners experience first-hand the processes involved in Windows 10 configuration and management. Review Questions reinforce concepts and help readers prepare for the Microsoft certification exam. Case Projects offer a real-world perspective on the concepts introduced in each chapter, helping readers prepare for even the most challenging situations that must be managed in a live networking environment. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Turn Crisis Into Cash Money matters got a lot scarier in 2020 and there is no end to the volatility in sight. Crisis means danger but also opportunity. To turn a profit during the next bust, or the next burst of inflation, individual investors and businesspeople must understand the economics of money, banking, and finance. That's what this book provides, in concise and understandable prose, with pictures. Understand inflation and interest rates, stock prices, money and monetary policy, and the basics of information and macroeconomic theory in short order. You might not beat the market after reading just this book, but if you learn its lessons the market won't beat up your business or investment portfolio the next time the economy tanks due to pandemic, war, high taxes, or alien invasion.
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