Windows 98 Secrets Gold: Wrapped (... Secrets (IDG)) (Paperback)

by Brian Livingston (Author), Davis Straub (Author)

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Amazon.com Review
Windows 98 Secrets Gold is a boxed set containing a book (Windows 98 Secrets) and several CD-ROMs. The book is the star of the show. The CD-ROMs are worth exploring but may not be worth the extra cost they add to the price of the book, which is also sold by itself.

With that in mind, Windows 98 Secrets is an excellent book. It includes full documentation of all of Windows 98's features, plus quite a bit of extra, less-well-known information. Among the useful secrets the authors share are specific procedures for resolving hardware resource conflicts, a way to access your Exchange address book directly, and the details of using Make Compatible, a utility that helps make Windows 3.x programs run properly under Windows 98. The odds are good that you'll learn something to increase your efficiency or happiness as a Windows 98 user.

Four CD-ROMs accompany the book. These four discs contain a lot of shareware and freeware, plus the full text of Windows 98 Secrets in WinHelp format. The shareware programs--some 16-bit and some 32-bit, by the way--serve many purposes, but quite a few popular tools (like WinZip, HotDog, and Acrobat Reader) are conspicuously missing. The interface is pretty clunky, too. Helpful hint: You should put Bonus Disk 2 into your CD-ROM drive first. --David Wall

Product Description
Book & CD-ROM package containing all the expert techniques you've come to expect from the authors of Windows 98 Secrets, plus 4 CD-ROMs packed with all the applications, tools, & utilities you need to optimize your system - completely updated for Windows 98. Paper. CD-ROM included.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1100 pages
• Publisher: Wiley Publishing (June 5, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764532081
• ISBN-13: 978-0764532085
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.8 x 3.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,432,831 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you can only buy 3 books on Win 98 then Secrets is them, July 19, 1998

By A Customer

Although the book lives up to its title, there are plenty of secrets, undocumented features and tips offered in the book, mostly Windows 98 Secrets Gold is a review of stuff most users will already know. In its current form, the book should be published in 2 volumes because it is quite unwieldy as a single volume making it difficult to sit and read. On the other hand, if the editors stuck to the title and only printed the secrets then the book would be much shorter and in my opinion, more useful. Secrets, undocumented features and tips are identified in the text margins with an icon and one only need flip through the book to realize that if you were to distill out the non iconized text, then the book would be much more compact. Curiously, the book keeps making distinctions between the features in Windows 98 and Windows 3.1 with hardly a nod to Windows 95. Still, like the authors state in the introduction, if even one tip is useful, you probably will have gotten your money's worth.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brian and Davis have done it AGAIN!, October 1, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Windows® 98 Secrets® Gold (Paperback)

This is THE book on WINDOWS 98! I also have the Windows 95 version, and find it to be the most helpful, so I am now reading my new copy of Windows 98...AND with 4 CDs, it is truly a great deal! Windows 95 users can benefit from this book also! A MUST have book for YOUR library.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book that takes you from the basics to the the indepth !!!, February 20, 1999

By A Customer

This book gives you every tool you need to get yourself through the rough edges, yet get the most from the Operating System! I love it and its tools!!!