Windows(r) 95 SECRETS(r) [Paperback]

Brian Livingston (Author), Davis Straub (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 9, 1995 | Series: The Secrets Series

Offering insight into the complete information on the latest version of Windows features, including tips and techniques that only a Windows expert can share, the third edition of this classic contains the hottest, all-new Windows shareware and scores of brand new programs that will help users get the most from Windows 95. The disks include communication programs, games, full application files and more. (Operating Systems)

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Amazon.com Review

Windows 95 Secrets is the definitive book of definitive books. Most computing titles aspire to be the one indispensable resource for their subject; Brian Livingston has managed all of this for the Windows user in one comprehensive package that combines tips, tricks, secrets, solutions, shortcuts--name your productivity gadget and it's here--in one encyclopedic guide.

You'll find productivity enhancements and timesaving shortcuts aplenty. You'll also find lucid, step-by-step instructions on customizing every nook and cranny of Windows 95. This book is an excellent choice for raising your power-user quotient and for bending Windows 95 to your will, at last. But it's also sufficient as a guide to most routine tasks you need to know in order to get Windows to behave. In it, for example, you'll find the mysteries of the System Registry explained in comprehensive detail. There are also many hints for improving system performance, troubleshooting common problems, automating routine operations, and lowering your blood pressure when confronting the common annoyances that are built into the operating system at no extra cost to you, the end user. If you're running Windows 95, this is an excellent choice for one does-it-all desk reference on the subject.

About the Author

About the Authors Brian Livingston is the author of IDG Books Worldwide's bestselling Windows^® 3.1 Secrets^®, MORE Windows^® 3.1 Secrets^®, and coauthor of Windows^® 95 Secrets^®, 3rd Edition, Windows^® 95 Secrets^®, Gold, and Windows^® Gizmos^®. His books have been published in more than 20 languages. Mr. Livingston is also a contributing editor of InfoWorld and Windows Sources magazines. Davis Straub, coauthor of Windows^® 95 Secrets^®, 3rd Edition and Windows^® 95 Secrets^®, Gold, has written over 200 magazine articles. Former president of Generic Software, developer of Generic CADD, Mr. Straub is currently a multimedia software developer. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 942 pages
• Publisher: Hungry Minds Inc; 3rd edition (August 9, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568844530
• ISBN-13: 978-1568844534
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,784,145 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the one Computer Book, you won't regret purchasing!, July 20, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Windows® 95 Secrets® (Paperback)

I received my copy of Windows 95 Secrets 4th Edition a couple of weeks back, and already I'm seeing the benefits. Brian Livingston & Davis Straub get really detailed in this edition. My colleagues and I feel like there isn't a part of Windows 95 that we don't know about! If this is the one computer book you ever buy, you definitely won't regret it

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Windows 95 Secrets towers above the competition., January 14, 1996

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This review is from: Windows(r) 95 SECRETS(r) (Paperback)

Getting Deeper and Deeper Into Microsoft Windows 95

By Edward Mendelson

If you want to change Windows 95's new interface and file system so that the generic "My Computer" feels more like your own computer, the one indispensable guide is Brian Livingston and Davis Straub's Windows 95 Secrets.

Unlike most Windows books, this one doesn't make you pay for a rewrite of Microsoft's help files. Instead it reveals undocumented and underdocumented techniques for changing almost anything in the Windows environment. Some of the simpler tips tell you how to customize the list of SendTo and New... items on the right-click menu. Others give you the details you need to use the new wildcard options in Explorer and explain that hotkey choices only work for shortcuts that you place on the Start menu.

The best tips--including the ones you won't learn from Microsoft--send you to the Registry Editor to add or modify entries. This isn't a job for the fainthearted, but if you have the courage, you can stop Windows' distracting and time-wasting habit of making application windows jump visibly from the taskbar to the screen and back again. You can add the Control Panel, Dial-Up Networking, and Printers to your Start menu. Best of all, you can change Windows' annoying habit of putting a tilde and the numeral 1 in the old-style 8.3 filenames that it automatically creates when you use a new-style long filename.

Livingston and Straub explore the depths of the Windows memory management and DOS support. They even tell you when to ignore the advice you get from Windows itself. When Windows displays an error message telling you to increase the Files setting in CONFIG.SYS, they tell you to make a change in SYSTEM.INI instead.

Like most Windows books, Windows 95 Secrets comes with a CD-ROM of shareware and freeware, most of it worthless, but Livingston and Straub one-up the competition by providing a one-stop installation program for virtually all the programs on the disk. If you don't like the one you just installed,

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource., July 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Windows® 95 Secrets® (Paperback)

This was a great book - if I had just one book about Win 95, this would be it.