Essential Computers Series: Personalizing Your PC

by Robert Beattie, Rob Beattie

Master state-of-the-art computer skills quickly and confidently with the Essential Computers series. These clear and concise step-by-step visual guides are designed to help beginners acquire all the techniques necessary to use today's information technology, from word processing to desktop publishing to setting up ecommerce and researching on the internet. Personalizing Your PC helps you master the basic skills to change the look of your PC screen using Windows and items downloaded from the internet, and
Changing color schemes
Replacing your screen's wallpaper
Setting up a screen saver
Password-protecting your screen
Using Musical Sound Schemes
Changing the Desktop Theme
Finding material on the internet
Giving a program a new skin
Downloading replacement shells

72 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2000

About the author

Robert Beattie, a Wichita lawyer, is the author of the nonfiction book Nightmare in Wichita. It is about BTK, a serial killer in Wichita, Kansas who created the name BTK after his modus operandi, "Bind Them, Torture Them, Kill Them". Dennis Rader started sending out letters to media again after hearing about the book. Right before he was going to publish it, Dennis Rader was arrested then convicted as the BTK Killer, a.k.a. the BTK Strangler, and Beattie quickly wrote an epilogue. Rader murdered 10 people in the Wichita area between 1974 and 1991 but evaded law enforcement until 2005. Beattie is also known for interviewing serial killer Charles Manson for a class project as a professor at Friends University in Wichita, which stirred up a lot of controversy and brought international media attention to him. Beattie ran unsuccessfully for the office of Kansas Attorney General in 2006.