Introduction. Book I: Choosing the Best Laptop. Chapter 1: Knowing What You Want, Getting What You Need. Chapter 2: Touring a Modern Laptop. Chapter 3: Microprocessors, Memory, and Operating Systems. Chapter 4: Doing It Yourself versus Calling in the Cavalry. Book II: Setting Up Your Laptop. Chapter 1: Installing or Upgrading an Operating System. Chapter 2: Painting Flames on the Operating System: Customizing. Chapter 3: Transferring Settings, E-mail, and Documents. Chapter 4: Managing Files, Folders, Extensions. Book III: Running Basic Windows Operations. Chapter 1: Opening Windows. Chapter 2: Using Built-in Windows Applications and Gadgets. Chapter 3: Windows Maintenance Utilities. Chapter 4: Honk, Honk! Windows Backup and Restore Utilities. Book IV: Using Common Applications. Chapter 1: Writing Documents. Chapter 2: Crunching Data with Spreadsheets. Chapter 3: Presenting Yourself with PowerPoint Professionalism. Chapter 4: Checking Your Calendar. Book V: Playing with Multimedia. Chapter 1: Walking Through Windows Media Playe. Chapter 2: Feeling the Music, Seeing the Stream. Chapter 3: Hamming It Up for the Webcam. Chapter 4: Gaming with a Laptop. Book VI: Managing Your Power Supply. Chapter 1: Using Your Power for Good Purposes. Chapter 2: Replacing or Upgrading Your Power Source. Chapter 3: Power-Management Utilities. Book VII: Upgrading Your Laptop. Chapter 1: Adding RAM. Chapter 2: Adding or Replacing a Drive: Internal, External, CD, or DVD. Chapter 3: Changing Your Input and Output Options. Chapter 4: Going External with Printer, Network, and Special Peripherals. Book VIII: Networking and Linking to the Internet. Chapter 1: Networking with Other Machines. Chapter 2: Managing a Windows Network. Chapter 3: Going Wireless. Chapter 4: Spinning the Web. Chapter 5: Exchanging E-mail, IMs, and Newsgroups. Chapter 6: Communicating with VoIP. Book IX: Protecting Your Laptop. Chapter 1: Traveling with a Laptop. Chapter 2: Guarding Against Intruders. Book X: Troubleshooting Common Problems. Chapter 1: Sweating the Hard(ware) Stuff. Chapter 2: Knowing When Good Software Goes Bad. Index.