If through no choice of your own, you've ended up with the Windows Vista operating system on your personal computer, it takes time to get used to the functions. The 24 projects in this book will help you make full use of the new features.

Granted that the Help files and the online Help will enable you to get to know the new features, how many users will read the help files unless they are stuck with a problem?

The author takes you through the projects step by step without much jargon. The projects are classified into easy, challenging, and advanced.

The easy projects will help you find the stuff in Vista. It covers how to have Web content delivered to you, how to create a eprsonal sidebar, customise folders and flip action, use Windows collaboration, and more.

The challenging projects will teach you how to create custom DVD covers, use the media centre, watch and record TV, talk to Vista, synchronise Vista with other programs, and control spams and junk E-mail.

The advanced projects will help to improve your computer's performance. Those who have suffered hard disk crashes will know the usefulness of backing up important data on a regular schedule. In this section, you will also learn to use Windows Meeting Space, and find your way around using the global positioning system.

With many screen captures to guide the reader, this book does its work better than the online manual that comes with the software.