Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 1440 pages
- Published by: Que July 24, 2003
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0789727900
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0789727909
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Book Dimensions:
9.4 x 7.7 x 2.3 inches
- Weighs: 5 pounds
Product Description
Platinum Edition Using Microsoft Windows XP is the ultimate Windows XP reference for the hardcore Windows user! It offers high-geared content that will teach you how to set up complicated networks, manage multiple users, keep everything secure, hack the registry, and write time-saving scripts. Authors Robert Cowart and Brian Knittel tell it like it is, tackling real-world criticism, complaints, and workarounds. They also tell you - plainly and simply - when a
Microsoft solution is the way to go, or whether you're better off with a third-party solution.
The CD contains one hour of unique video from Brainsville.com that brings Bob and Brian right to your desktop! This personal seminar digs deep into the guts of Windows XP and is a valuable addition to any power user's bag of tricks.
Platinum Edition Using Microsoft Windows XP is the one Windows XP book that you'll go to again and again!
Back Cover Copy
While most Windows books concentrate on a ground floor approach, Platinum Edition Using
Microsoft Windows XP takes an entirely different approach - one that assumes the reader is a bona fide Windows black belt who wants or requirements to manage multiple users in a networked environment, turbocharge a Windows installation with registry tweaks or stop hackers in their tracks. This book doesn't waste time telling the reader how to simply live with Windows - it tells the user how to squeeze every last drop of performance from it.The CD contains one hour of video from Brainsville! This unique video package brings Bob and Brian right to the reader's desktop. This personal seminar digs deep into the guts of Windows XP and is a valuable addition to any power user's bag of tricks.
Reader ReviewsRecently I was doing some consulting for a company and performing a Windows XP Professional Rollover and upgrade. I was also teaching a class for A+ and the new objectives which has XP questions. This book while not a certification specific book, handled both jobs very well. What this book is is more than how to configure the desktop and change the background or setup XP to look like the "Classic" windows interface. While it does all that it also takes you through security and networking and what I found to very interesting is that it discusses the Home and the Professional versions as well as the 32 and 64 bit versions. There are step by step procedures throughout the book to help you learn to perform different operations, such setting up the ASR process, dual booting Windows 9X and XP and how to do searches for people, computers and more. There is a great deal of pictures and diagrams in the book; however I think that some of them need to be in color in order to completely understand the full meaning the photo. There is also a cd included which has an additional chapter that the book does not cover. It also has over an hour of video to show you how to perform certain technical functions. Overall the book is very comprehensive and for those wanting to add to the knowledge they have or possibly use this book for certification exams you have a very good source of information.
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