Microsoft® Windows® XP Inside Out Deluxe (Bpg-Inside Out) 2nd Edition

by Ed Bott (Author), Carl Siechert (Author), Craig Stinson (Author)

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Dig into the work-ready tools and resources that help you go way beyond just using Microsoft Windows XP. You’ll conquer it! The Deluxe, Second Edition of this popular reference packs all-new coverage of Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the latest on Windows XP Professional, Windows XP at home, security updates, and other developments. Now you get even more timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and handy workarounds—plus new software, tools, and eBooks on the CD. It’s all muscle and no fluff!

Configure smarter startup and shutdown options
Set up and troubleshoot your own wired or wireless network
NEW—Master security essentials, including Windows XP Service Pack 2 updates
Deploy advanced options—encryption, auditing tools, security templates, and more
NEW—Edit the Registry from the command line
NEW—Get creative—look like a pro—with Windows Movie Maker 2
NEW—Take your digital photos and music to the next level
Automate tasks with scripts and batch programs
Use group policies and professional tools to manage enterprise networks

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Ed Bott and Carl Siechert have combined their considerable talents for producing user-level documentation in creating Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out. One of the most carefully researched books on Windows XP to date, this large volume has all the information and procedures most everyday users of the operating system will want. With its nicely formatted how-to instructions, detailed documentation of command-line commands, intelligent explanatory text, and broad scope, this book makes a great reference for a family or business that uses Windows XP extensively. Even the illustrations are more helpful than usual, largely because the publisher has gone to the trouble of annotating many of them with pointers and labels.

Bott and Siechert deal with the most controversial features of Windows XP, notably product activation, in a straightforward way. They simply explain what activation is for, tell how to go about it, and move on. If you're a power user interested in getting around activation and performing other unsanctioned hacks, look for your information in online newsletters. This book plays by Microsoft's rules, and that's fine. It's obvious that the authors have had access to Windows XP for some time, and spent a lot of time exploring its new features. Count on this book to explain the complete set of Windows XP's features--even the exciting networking stuff--in terms you can easily follow. --David Wall

Topics covered: Microsoft Windows XP (Professional and Home editions) for home and office users who want to install, use, and run applications. Emphasis is on basic set-up and configuration, hardware installation and modification, file management, multimedia, and networking. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Ed Bott is an award-winning journalist and one of the most recognized voices in the computing world. He's been writing about Microsoft® Windows® and Office for two decades and is the author of more than two dozen books.

Carl Siechert specializes in implementing and documenting operating system technologies. He has coauthored several Windows®-related books, including the popular Windows Vista® Inside Out, Deluxe Edition, with Ed Bott and Craig Stinson.

Craig Stinson is a journalist and author. He has written or coauthored more than 20 books including Windows Vista® Inside Out, Deluxe Edition and Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Inside Out.

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Series: Bpg-Inside Out
Hardcover: 1520 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 2nd edition (November 4, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735620431
ISBN-13: 978-0735620438
Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 2.9 x 9.5 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (110 customer reviews)
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4 Stars if you Start with this Book; 5 Stars for this book if you start with "XP Unleashed" book First

ByMark A. Weisson June 4, 2010

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Sorry to say, but this book needs another book first before it gets its 5 stars. You really should start with XP Unleashed by McFedries. That book has a very high percentage of stuff you will want to do. Unleashed builds a perspective well too. Armed with a great perspective and having easily accomplished a host of very useful things from the Unleashed book, NOW you will we able to do something with the unfathomable plethora of info in XP Inside Out. (Surprisingly though, Unleashed is actually better at some things, and more thorough even, on certain topics than is Inside Out.) In short, Unleashed makes Inside Out workable. Just starting with Inside Out and I don't really think you'd know what to do. And like I said, Unleashed even has a couple topics and points missed by Inside Out. But the converse is true too: Inside Out has a few things not in Unleashed. Get Unleashed first -- literally and metaphorically. Totally eat up that book. Now your myriad of possibilities from Inside Out have some rhyme and reason to them. Most of the important things you can get from the Unleashed book though. But for the few extras not in Unleashed, the comprehensiveness of Inside Out, it's CD (see other reviewers' comments), Inside Out would get 5 stars -- but only if you got and ate up the XP Unleashed book first.

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Very Good XP Resource

ByTyguyon April 10, 2002

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First I must take issue with some people who say that XP is completley new and different from 2000(from memory some reviews here say this). I'm a network administrator and we recently upgraded our network to Windows 2000. What does this have to do with XP? Well, in preparing for the upgrade I came accross Mark Minasi's book, Mastering Windows 2000 Server. Eventually we started getting outside clients who were buying new systems with Windows XP preloaed on them so I cracked open my msdn windows xp evaluation and went through the XP Inside and Out book. From reading this book and Mark's it became very clear that Windows XP really is Windows 2000 with a Win 9x/ME influenced GUI. In other words is a refined version of 2000 with lots of new shiny toys that the barebones 2000 was missing (yes, things like msconfig are back). You see, 90% of Windows XP Inside and Out is already gone over in good Windows 2000 books such as Mark Minasi's. The only new information here was learning about the new interface, and seeing what new features have been added into Media Player and the Support and help tools (these make me happy).
The reason why I'm bothering to talk about this is because if you're already a Windows 2000 expert like me, then you probably are better off with buying a thinner book that doesn't go into detail on the NTFS file system or other NT/2000 subjects that would be new for a Win 9x user. Just go get something that quickly goes over the new interface and the support tools.
However, if your coming straight from a Windows 9x environment or don't have much experience with 2000 (NT experience doesn't count) then I highly recommend this book. It goes over a lot of the NT/2000/XP basics that are very different from a Win 9x environment. Heck, even if you are an experienced 2000 expert I would still recommend this book because its very well written and has lots of nice details; you're just not going to be reading much new content.

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Still happy about this very helpful guidebook.

ByReed McGuireon December 28, 2014

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This book was very useful and helpful to me and I recommend it highly to everyone who is still a loyal user of Windows XP systems. I have a newer computer system now; but Windows XP is still a good system for those who are loyal to it; and it was a major advantage to me while I used Windows XP.

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A Time Wasting Volume

ByWilliam Bruceon December 14, 2009

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I was very disappointed with this book. It simply does not provide the practical help to XP that I had anticipated. The book contains a vast amount of non-essential information and by the time you discover that the article cannot provide practical help, you have wasted entirely too much time.

I found both the table of contents and the index difficult to use. I alway come away with more questions than answers to some of my technical XP problems. If you are looking for timesaving solutions, tips, tricks, or other workarounds you will be wasting your time with this title.

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A big book with TONS of good information

ByJuan Ortunoon June 22, 2003

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I bought this book looking for a deeper source of Windows XP information. While I am already very familiar with most versions of windows, still there were things that I had questions about in windows 2000 and xp.
While this book covered a lot of basic information that I already knew, it was not all to waste. I was able to get in-depth information on home networking, tcp/ip, file sharing & security, user accounts, shortcuts, file management, tricks & ideas for internet explorer, windows media player, outlook, handling hard disks, and so on. This book is a windows encyclopedia filled with good examples and things you can do with windows that you could not know about.
Since windows xp has a lot of windows 2000, it does serve as an instructional manual for both OSes.
I have already taken care of a lot of things that I learned from this book. I was able to set up my home network & manage user accounts in a different way. File sharing & security chapters were also very helpful.
Check this out. If you think you know everything in windows xp, think again.
Like the title of the book says "xp inside out," here you will most of the answers to your questions.
Warning: This book is very broad and has a lot of information. I do not recommend it for a beginner or any casual home user, as you will only get bored with so much information that, if you do not understand windows very well, you may find irrelevant.
I do, however, recommend it to serious users who want to take a deeper look.

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