There’s no need for you to reinstall every single program when you purchase a new computer or when you format your hard disk. Windows Vista provides us with Easy Transfer, a utility that can easily transfer and restore your old settings.

What can you transfer

Easy Transfer will transfer files and settings for the following: e-mail, music, pictures and videos, user accounts, internet and favorites, programs, contacts and messages. Easy Transfer will not transfer your program files, instead it will restore the application’s settings.

In this tutorial we’ll show you how to set up your connection for a wireless network.

Why use a wireless network?

• you don't have to worry about running into cable all over the place
• the chances to get in trouble due to faulty cables is minimized
• if you want to enjoy an evening in the garden but have to work on a report, you won't have to carry your laptop with a network cable plugged in with you

Connecting to a wireless network automatically

In this section we'll show you how to share files, folders, printers and other peripherals in Windows Vista

What should you know about sharing?

The shortest definition I could find on sharing is that "sharing is the joint use of a resource”. Sharing a file, folder or printer in Windows Vista makes the resource available to the users of your network, or only to those that have the rights to use it.

If you want to connect to the Internet or a local network, you have to know how to set up your connection. Let us show you how to do it!

What is a network?

Today, most people have access to the Internet, and it's really hard to imagine the use of a computer without being able to go online. Your link to the outside world is the network (to put it simple, more computers connected together are a network), of course, no matter its speed or the fact that it uses wires or not.