Windows Annoyances (Nutshell Handbook)

Miss the days of digging deep into your desktop OS and really figuring out how to make that machine sing? Were you the kid who was grounded in middle school for pulling apart the family computer? Want the power that autoexec.bat and config.sys gave you to make MS-DOS your own OS? This book puts MSW-95 system back in the hands of the bedroom hack, and gives the fearless user the power to move past that "hit the television to fix the picture" stage to which to which GUI has stuck most of the world. This is your chance to see the man behind the curtain!

This is an excellent book. Think you know Windows? Read this book, and I think you'll discover more than you think. If Windows is giving you fits, or you'd simply like to change a few things that just annoy you (who doesn't?), pick this one up. It's very simply an excellent reference tool for both Windows users and anyone who administrates Windows computers. Fortunately, this book should be good for both the novice and the professionals. However, if you are a novice, just make sure you understand the instructions that are carefully laid out in the book. There is nothing at all complicated, but there are many examples of simple registry changes that could be bad news if you just rip through it. Take it line by line (few examples have more than 5-6 simple steps), and you'll have no trouble at all.O'Reilly is truly an amazing book publisher. It's very uncommon to pick up one of their books and find even one error or lack of coverage. This book is NO EXCEPTION. O'Reilly makes a durable book with a clever binding called a RepKover. That's very important, something you'll discover after referring to O'Reilly books over & over & over again. These books are kept on the desktop or very nearby and used continuously.

Finally a book that is not as thick as my family Bible and a lot of the Microsoft "Hype" that is in the other books. It gets right to the issue. Those O'Reilly folks do an excellent job in all of their Nutshell books and it good to see them approaching the Microsoft world with the same outlook.

The book provides easy to understand and implement solutions to many of the quirks that plague me in my work as a system administrator. Although some of the undocumented Win95 information it contains is available elsewhere he presents the information without using extreme technospeak and not making the reader feel like a dummy. I recommand that this be a must read for anyone who is at all involed with win95

Very good book, it covers lots of ground and helps you with everyday "windows annoyances"