14 Best Windows Courses for Beginners
We compared 14 Windows courses currently listed on Coursera and Udemy, priced from $19.99 to $199.99. 13 of them teach the subject directly and 1 are built around a certification exam. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 14
- Price range
- $19.99 – $199.99
- Providers
- Coursera, Udemy
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 14 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, Udemy, matched to "windows" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $19.99 to $199.99, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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1
Office Productivity Software and Windows Fundamentals
Offered by SkillUp
As the most used operating system in the world, Windows skills are crucial in today’s workplace. Knowledge of Windows and office productivity software is highly valued and makes you a desirable job candidate. In this min...
$49.00listed price -
2
Windows, macOS & Linux Fundamentals
Offered by Total Seminars
This course introduces the three major operating systems covered on the CompTIA A+ Core 2 exam — Windows, macOS, and Linux — with a focus on how each is installed, configured, and used in real-world IT support environmen...
$49.00listed price -
3
Windows PowerShell for beginners
PowerShell is a cross-platform object-oriented language and shell that IT pros can use to manage computers running Windows, Linux, and macOS. PowerShell can automate tasks across thousands of computers simultaneously. If...
$29.99listed price -
4
VirtualBox: Fundamentals for Linux/Windows
This course is designed to be an introduction to Oracle VirtualBox for beginners. It is great for students and inspiring I.T. professionals who are interested in virtualization. You will learn about VirtualBox's network...
$19.99listed price -
5
Maven and SonarQube for DevOps Engineers - Beginners Guide
Offered by Packt
Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as yo...
$49.00listed price -
6
Foundations of IT Fundamentals
Offered by Packt
Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as yo...
$49.00listed price -
7
CompTIA A+ Core 2 Certification: Master IT Fundamentals
Master CompTIA A+ Core 2: Launch Your High-Impact IT Career!Are you ready to transform your passion for technology into a thriving, future-proof career? Our CompTIA A+ Core 2 Certification Course is your definitive launc...
$199.99listed price -
8
The Ultimate beginners course for Computer Science or IT
This course has the very fundamentals to start your computer science journey and needs no prerequisites at all. It is designed in a way such that you can test yourself whether the IT or computer science related career is...
$19.99listed price -
9
Reverse Engineering: Ghidra For Beginners
If you have never used Ghidra before and want to learn how get started with using Ghidra to reverse engineer and analyse programs, then this is the course for you. Ghidra is the strong competitor to IDA Pro and is used b...
$39.99listed price -
10
Introduction to AWS EC2 Instances
Master the AWS Skills That Power Modern Cloud CareersMaster the fundamentals of Amazon EC2 and build a strong foundation in AWS compute services through a practical, beginner-friendly course. You'll start by understandin...
$19.99listed price -
11
Mastering Operating Systems From Fundamentals to Advanced
Operating systems are at the heart of every computer, smartphone, and many other devices we use every day. This course is designed to help you understand how operating systems work from the inside out. You will explore w...
$19.99listed price -
12
Ansible 11.0 for Beginners with Examples - DevOps
This is a full course to become an Automation hero on Ansible 9.0 from the beginning, with full explanations and code examples. We are going to start with basic code to print a message, how to get/set variables and facts...
$24.99listed price -
13
Ansible for Network Engineers - Beginners Guide
In this course you will learn everything you need to know to start automating with Ansible. I will show you how to setup your own Ansible environment for free with all options:WindowsmacOSLinux VMGNS3Once you have y...
$199.99listed price -
14
CompTIA IT Fundamentals+ (FC0-U61)
Offered by Packt
Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as yo...
$49.00listed price
Best Windows Courses for Beginners compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 14 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $199.99, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $180.00. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera and Udemy. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion.
Courses versus exam preparation
1 of the entries here are built around a certification exam rather than teaching Windows from scratch. They are the right choice only if you already know the material and want to pass a specific exam; if you are starting out, pick one of the taught courses first and come back to exam preparation afterwards.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 18 September 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.