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200 pages, $19.95 US, $30.95 CA, £13.95 UK
This publication has some excellent tips for XP,
2K, and Windows operating systems in general. The book is well laid out
and broken down into seven chapters covering many PC areas and applications
such as: Email, Windows XP, Windows Explorer, the internet, Microsoft
Office, multimedia and hardware. The index is very detailed making this
book an excellent reference for future problems.
Steve Bass has put a great deal of effort in
this book to cover many competing applications. He goes into great detail
to explain how to accomplish a change and will give specific instructions
for Exchange, Outlook, Netscape, Eudora, and AOL for a particular
annoyance. Bass doesn’t assume an all Micro Soft environment where other
environments could be a factor.
My personal favorites were on pages 48 and 54
that explained which files could be deleted to reclaim space such as restore
points and old uninstall files and which files should not be removed like
ServicePackFiles. These files are used by Windows File Protection and also
contain device drivers.
Steve Bass does a good job at putting humor
where ever he can as well as additional information in sidebars throughout
the book. The one thing this book lacks is a CD, but they apologize by
informing the reader that the priced was lowered by five dollars and proving
a URL,
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pcannoy/annoyance_download.html
to enable readers and others can download files
if they are interested.
I enjoyed this book and I will miss not having
it with me for handy reference and something to read while waiting for my
train.
Andrew O’Toole |
