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Summary: Power Users Rejoice!
Review: Are you an experienced Windows user who is tired of all the operating system instruction manuals rehashing on how to create folders, use the recycle bin, and create desktop icons? Do you want to dig deep and unlock the real power of XP? If so, this meaty 1245 page manual is for you.This book covers both XP home and professional editions and it is written with the assumption that you have already mastered the basics. A great deal of XP education is presented from making the most of virtual memory, to editing the registry, to hosting a Web or FTP site. Actually, so much territory is covered that it is impossible to list all here but if you need your intermediate to advanced questions answered you'll find it in Windows XP Inside Out. This guide is logically sequenced and pleasing to the eye. Throughout you will find dialogue boxes that contain special tips, notes, figures, and useful tables. Eye-popping visuals bring your attention to new features exclusive to XP. Why not crack open this book and give your Windows knowledge the tune-up it needs to operate accurately, efficiently, and adeptly.
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Summary: Such a great book!
Review: I have two Inside Out books on my desk this one and Windows Server 2003 Inside Out. I've learned tons from both. If you are looking to leaern all you can about Windows XP, I think Windows XP Inside Out is the book to get. It's not a quick reference or anything but it is very detailed.
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Summary: Great review of WiIndows XP
Review: I have worked with Windows 98, 98SE, ME and now XP. I have to say that this book is well documented with alot of information. As a computer technician, I recommend this book to anyone who is running or going to buy Windows XP. It is a must be in one's library. I found it well packed with a wealth of information, charts, and disk that it great. I foudn everything I needed in the book without any trouble. Great source book. A+ book.
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Summary: Great Reasource
Review: I use this book 3-4 times a week. It is a good tool in my opinion as it put things in a realworld perspective. If you ever read any of the Microsoft press books you'll know that it is all put in to a plain Vanilla way and most IT business aren;t plain or Vanilla. This book is great to have.
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Summary: New updates and another winner.
Review: Several months back I reviewed the Windows XP Inside Out book, I was most impressed by the overall amount of information included as well as the detail and documentation of the information, Well things have gotten even better with the release of the Deluxe edition. With over 1400 pages and new and updated information the book that I was using to support XP clients has been replaced with this book. From the install to the configuration to customizing and faxing, you have everything here you need. I found additions like working with the admin account, working with older applications, using TweakUI for XP, complete updates on the multimedia and media player and communication over the internet to be very helpful in some of the everyday things I am working on right now. Once again I think the Windows errors section needs to be expanded and also more information on group and local policies as well. Finally you can use this book for the 70-270 exam study. With the book comes a cd that has 2 complete e-books and the Service pack 1 for XP and some updates to the media player. Overall this is the book I use and recommend to all my students.
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Summary: Measured by Usefulness
Review: this books has saved me countless hours and $. That is how I measure a books worth. Was it worth the price? More than that!
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Summary: Details details
Review: This is a highly detailed 1400 page text produced by the good people at Microsoft. Typical Microsoft, the book tends to read like stereo instructions. That aside, I gave it 5 stars because of its detailed and comprehensive coverage of the subject. The included CD is also impressive, with a networking encyclopedia and dictionary included. This book is not for light weights. If you are a home or private user of XP, I would recommend you shop elsewhere. However, if you are an administrator then you need to ask yourself, Why is this book not on my reference shelf? Get your boss to buy it for you. Compare this book to Mark Minasi's "Mastering Windows XP Professional" (ISBN: 0782141145).
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Summary: Hefty, beany, beefy
Review: This is a huge book, 1165 pages filled with good stuff, plus an index of 77 pages. Lots of stuff I didn't even know that I didn't know. It is worth the (rather reasonably low) price of this book just to get its recommendation for a really good shareware imaging program. A great value.
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Summary: The definitive XP reference, not for casual users
Review: This Microsoft Press reference book is a tome and over kill for the casual user. But if you really want to learn how to use the very best of XP this is the standard, the premier, it is the definitive guide. XP Inside Out is an appropriate title. My first Windows user's manual was measured in ounces and a hundred plus pages. XP is over 1200 pages and almost 7 pounds. You need wheels to go desk to desk with it. You can take it to bed, it's bigger than your pillow. You can soak it in paraffin to make a Yule log. But it's this size that creates the very best topical layout, reference, and index that I have yet seen by Microsoft. Users can actually trace error messages to their plain English explanation and suggested solutions - a first for Microsoft. Authors Halverson, and Young, Microsoft "employees," have produced a superb reference tool for power users, developers, system designers, software instructors, consultants, and CIOs. If you want to know anything about XP, use this book. It is suitable for (interested) users 12 years of age to professional software and hardware systems experts. That's quite a span and good technical writing, editing, and layout is responsible. But there is more. The book includes a full text and illustrated e-book version on CD (40 MB on your hard drive and running with MS Internet Explorer or Netscape). That's worth the cost of the book by itself because standard XP search, find, and print tools can be used to navigate the 1,400 pages instantly. It's worth the Amazon.com price, no reservations by this reviewer.
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Summary: You need this book in your library
Review: Whether you're a newbie or an intermediate user of XP, their is never an end to tricks you can learn. I use this book in the classroom to train my students, they love it. People make a mistake and purchase the skinniest book they can find or one that has in the title "24 hours", or "weekend". Those books are great but their not going to help you at 12 o'clock in the morning when you have a XP or computer question. Buy this book you won't be sorry.
Carl
Software Trainer
www.johnsontraining.net
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