The Mother of All Windows Books: Being a Compendium of Incantations, Imprecations, Supplications, and Modifications Known to Appease the Deamons Within Windows [Paperback]

Woody Leonhard (Author), Barry Simon (Author), Barry Leonhard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1993

The aim of this book is to turn Windows, the PC and software applications into a seamless work environment. It shows the reader how to use Windows by providing quick solutions to real-life problems. The book comes with two companion disks containing extensions to Windows and Windows applications. The shareware and freeware includes: a working model for Word for Windows; SysEdit, a replacement for Windows System Editor; WOPR, the Word for Windows resourse pack; Almanac, a calander program; and PaintShopPro, a graphics editor.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1072 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley (C); Pap/Dskt edition (October 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201624753
• ISBN-13: 978-0201624755
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,445,149 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars If only all computer books were this good, June 27, 2011

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Peter A. Mcgovern (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Mother of All Windows Books: Being a Compendium of Incantations, Imprecations, Supplications, and Modifications Known to Appease the Deamons Within Windows (Paperback)

Woody knocked it out of the park with this one. Funny, informative, irreverent, honest, easy-to-follow, and ultimately satisfying to the soul. Of course the Windows of today is not the Windows of this book.

There has never been another technology author like Woody and I'm sure his publishers would never let him do this again.

Note: The other 'Mother' books were just as good.

4.0 out of 5 stars A Thrill When It Was New, December 4, 2009

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Timothy Denton "[e-mail]" (CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Mother of All Windows Books: Being a Compendium of Incantations, Imprecations, Supplications, and Modifications Known to Appease the Deamons Within Windows (Paperback)

Of course, it's dated now, but this is still a good explanation of some of the basics of computing like displays and sound. It was so much fun to read! I reread it for fun. I've never found anything quite like it.