Windows Vista® Step by Step Deluxe Edition

Key Points

• When installing new programs, you can usually answer a few setup questions and then leave most of the details to Windows Vista. Similarly, Windows Vista provides a safe way of completely removing programs you no longer use.

• You can instruct Windows Vista to automatically start a program when you log on to your computer.

• You can choose the program Windows Vista starts when you double-click a file of a particular type.

• You can monitor applications, processes, and services running on your computer from the Windows Task Manager.

• You can monitor and manage the storage disks on your computer from the Disk Management area of the Computer Management console.