Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows XP Professional (3rd Edition) (Paperback)

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This updated edition covers all of the updates to Windows XP since it was released, including Service Packs 1 and 2, and Reloaded. From-the-trenches advice on upgrading to Windows XP Pro - including detailed rollout advice for IT managers. Plan and manage deployment of Windows easily and efficiently - whether you're upgrading just a handful of computers, or an entire corporation! Includes hands-on coverage of installing, configuring and surviving on a Windows XP-based network. We not only show you how to set up Windows networking features, we show you how to install and set up basic networking hardware.Sharing files with other platforms, such as Novell Netware, Unix and Linux, Macintosh and other Windows flavors.

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This updated edition covers all of the updates to Windows XP since it was released, including Service Packs 1 and 2, and Reloaded. From-the-trenches advice on upgrading to Windows XP Pro - including detailed rollout advice for IT managers. Plan and manage deployment of Windows easily and efficiently - whether you're upgrading just a handful of computers, or an entire corporation! Includes hands-on coverage of installing, configuring and surviving on a Windows XP-based network. We not only show you how to set up Windows networking features, we show you how to install and set up basic networking hardware.Sharing files with other platforms, such as Novell Netware, Unix and Linux, Macintosh and other Windows flavors.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1440 pages
• Publisher: Que; 3 edition (December 16, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789732807
• ISBN-13: 978-0789732804
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 2.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #295,512 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Good Book it is However, Beginner Book it is Not, April 4, 2002

By	Mark "Lightning Sword" (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Special Edition Using Windows XP Professional (Paperback)

A+++ a CD!

Well written and resourced with good humor mixed in to break up any monotonous verbiage. As most of you know Que publishes some of the best material out there aside from some Microsoft Press books as well(I like em).

Like others that have noted in previous reviews this book starts you out with the assumption that that you have used Windows before. This is a good thing for experienced users of Windows products however they should have written the book true to the level as it was given (Beginning Level) on the back cover.

I enjoy this book as both a reference and a study. Most of us who use WinXP Pro on a daily basis will also.

All in all you just can't go wrong with Que books. I also purchased a 13th Edition of Repairing PC's authored by Scott Muller also. Great books! Well worth the money.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Probably a good buy, January 12, 2002

By	occasional_reviewer (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Special Edition Using Windows XP Professional (Paperback)

I can't compare this to the other XP books on the market, but _Using XP_ is better written and better organized than the many other computer tomes I've bought in years past. It also has much less of the useless padding I've come to associate with computer books ... which is to say, marginally relevant information included only to make the book nice and thick, so the consumer will object less to shedding 40 plus bucks for it.

My experience with the index has been consistently frustrating, and I wish the authors had included more hardcore nuts and bolts information in sections V and VI. Still, if ten plus years of experience with computer books is significant, I was quite lucky to find this book, and Windows users are lucky to be able to buy something by these writers. The last operating system book I bought was one of the 'Unleashed' titles, and boy, was that wretched.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Essential Book for Installing XP, September 19, 2002

By	Bruce J. Harris (Berkeley, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Special Edition Using Windows XP Professional (Paperback)

This book has been at my right hand for a month while I have been switching from Windows 98SE to XP. I could not have installed XP without it. I've used Windows 95, 98 and 98SE, but XP is enough different that a book like this is absolutely needed. The book has checklists for before and after installation and extensive explanations for "Using Windows" once you are up and running. The technical level is about right for me now; later, I will want more depth. The accompanying CD and the Tour that comes with Windows will help the rank beginner.
I am not on a network so cannot critique the network chapter.
And a remarkable plus: I had a question about getting out of my multibooting configuration, and the authors answered me on-line with carefully thought out advice.
Yes, the book has some gaps: it answered about 80% of my questions, so I give it 4 stars.
Don't install XP without a book like this.