Windows Annoyances (Nutshell Handbooks)

By Drew Briney JD

"Windows Annoyances," a comprehensive resource for intermediate to advanced users of Windows 95 and NT 4.0, details step-by-step how to customize your Win95/NT operating systems through an extensive collection of tips, tricks, and workarounds.Learn how to customize every aspect of your Win95/NT system, far beyond the intentions of Microsoft. Programmers and network administrators will appreciate the information in this book. Even advanced users will find it intriguing. All of the extensive details have been laid out in a simple, direct format that intermediate to advanced users can follow with ease.Features that can be found in both Win95 and WinNT 4.0 are covered: Customize your PC by learning methods of backing up, repairing, compressing, and transferring portions of the Registry.For Win95 users, discover how Plug and Play, the technology that makes Win95 so compatible, can save you time and improve the way you interact with your computer.Explore an exhaustive collection of tips and tricks for customizing the new interface of Win95/NT.Learn how to benefit from the new 32-bit software and hardware drivers that support such features as improved multitasking and long filenames.You will also find topics ranging from useful keyboard shortcuts to ways you can format floppies faster, more reliably, and with greater capacity. Networking in Win95/NT is an issue for many users, but this book covers in detail everything from dialing into the Internet to connecting two computers across a peer-to-peer network This book even provides instructions for capatilizing on security and multiple-user settings for Win95 and WinNT. You will also discover ways of acquiring and using third-party software and utilities to tackle some of the more complex workarounds, requiring a minimum investment in both time and money. "Windows Annoyances" not only shows you step-by-step how to personally customize your Win95/NT operating systems, it provides you with the ability to troubleshoot common problems, thus giving you immense control over the operating system.(Note: This book is not replaced by "Windows 98 Annoyances." O'Reilly will be providing ongoing marketing support for both volumes. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565922662
• ISBN13: 9781565922662
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Bring back the OS hack!

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...

Another O'Reilly Masterpiece!

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...

Great Usable Book"

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.

One of the best computer books I've ever read!!

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 Nice

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