Insider Power Techniques for Microsoft® Windows® XP (Bpg-Other) 1st Edition

by Paul McFedries (Author), Geoff Winslow (Author), Scott Andersen (Author),

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Accept no limits! Tweak Windows XP for ultimate performance with the undocumented secrets and hidden gems of the experts who work with the technology every day. Three Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) professionals have teamed with well-known Windows book author Paul McFedries to reveal their best from-the-field techniques, practices, hacks, tricks, and workarounds for putting all of your PC’s muscle to work. Smart, straightforward, and uncompromisingly practical, this book is the ultimate insider’s guide to pushing Windows XP as far as it can go!

Put professional-level practices to work for you:

Tweak registry settings without getting burned
Employ lethal techniques to help fight viruses, intruders, and spam
Customize startup and shutdown—get work done behind the scenes
Install devices and drivers—painlessly
Learn 10 ways to help give your system rock-solid stability
Write your own scripts—or run the ones inside
Share your PC using group policies, account lock-outs, and other management tools
Optimize memory, performance, and usability
Easily synchronize files between your mobile and desktop PCs
Troubleshoot problems the way the experts do

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Paul McFedries is the author of numerous books on Windows, including Complete Idiot's Guide to Windows XP, Unauthorized Guide to Windows Me, Complete Idiot's Guide to Windows Me, Complete Idiot's Guide to Windows 2000, Unauthorized Guide to Windows 98, Complete Idiot's Guide to Windows 98, Windows 98 Unleashed, and Windows 95 Unleashed.

Geoff Winslow has been in the consulting field for more than 10 years, with just over five years with Microsoft, first as a consultant and then as a senior consultant. His experience with Windows has been infrastructure engagements, from Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 OS deployments and domain designs all the way through to current day Windows 2000 and XP deployments and Active Directory® designs and deployments.

Scott Andersen is an MCS consultant and MCP with 12 years of IT and consulting experience. He works with customers designing, building and deploying Windows XP desktop solutions.

Austin Wilson has been with Microsoft since 1994 as a systems engineer, an architectural engineer, a principal consultant, and a service line architect. Most recently he has been involved in corporate Windows XP deployments.

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Series: Bpg-Other
Paperback: 412 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (February 22, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735618968
ISBN-13: 978-0735618961
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.9 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
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Gross Misuse of the phrase "Power Techniques"

ByJase T. Wolfeon September 29, 2003

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If this book was written about cars, their "Power Techniques" would include how to set your radios pre-sets, reset the trip odometer, and roll down both the driver and passenger power windows by using two fingers to work both switches at once. Knowing how to use your OS as a proficient user is not a utilizing "field-proven secrets of the pros", as the back cover would have you believe.
The first section of this book is devoted to teaching you how to configure, find, and launch control panel applets (mostly using the GUIs - really), followed by an overview of the Tweak UI add-on Microsoft provides as a standard free download. Another section includes an overview of how to open and read items within the registry (using the standard registry editor) which does not go into any specific configurations or tweaks, but rather on an explanation of what you are looking at and a warning about messing with it. Subsequent sections cover such things as controlling which applications start up, managing local users, installing devices, configuring the Explorer, configuring the Windows Media Player and ?getting the most of the Internet Explorer?. None of these sections include anything which is not done through the Microsoft provided interfaces and which wouldn?t be covered in an "Introduction to XP" style book.
The book also includes an entire section "devoted" to scripting Windows (30 pages). Like so many other books that cover scripting, the section is not going to leave the reader with the ability to script anything and is more likely to confuse and ?turn off? any desire to learn more.
Essentially, there are many excellent titles which serve to introduce a new user to Windows XP (such as ISBN 0782140769), as well as titles which will actually teach "power techniques" to a user (ISBN 0782141145 and ISBN 078214067X). This title is misleading to users already familiar and comfortable with Windows XP and better titles will prove more useful to any user who really wants to master the OS.

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