Customer Reviews

Windows: System Policy Editor

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I have been trying to use system policies on our Win98 systems for several months with some success. This book helped me to not only improve my existing Win98 policies, but to solve some very annoying problems. The troubleshooting pages were very helpful, as was the chapter on other ways to increase Win98 security. Hopefully there will be a second edition including Win2k before I'm ready to upgrade our systems.

To tell the truth, I have only browsed this book. But, if you are like me and have ever wondered what the purpose of the password is on a Windows 95 or 98 computer, this is the best place to start learning. The only other place I seen this discussed is in the Microsoft Windows 95 Resource Kit, a huge 1300 page volume. The book is mostly oriented around a computer running Windows on a network. If you are the only user, your concern is with a "stand alone computer" application which Stacey Anderson-Redick does address.

The strong part of this book to tell the reader the security holes of System Policy Editor itself. If anyone knows the hole he knows how to secure the network. Due to System Policy Editor's limitation it needs to use third party software, the writer suggested.

The week part is, the writer suggested something in one chapter and the same thing to other chapter. Duplicate suggestioning. First few chapters details the System Policy and it's implementation. Rest of the chapters details each template files structure. As to implement the policy a Network Admin don't need the unnessary details. It could save some pages and price would drop.

Though it's limitation I like the writer's expert writing style and give the book ALL STARS.