Upgrading and Repairing Microsoft Windows

Upgrading and Repairing Microsoft Windows
By Scott Mueller, Brian Knittel
Publisher: Que
Pub Date: November 30, 2005
ISBN: 0-7897-3403-6
Pages: 720

 Product Description
Fans of Upgrading and Repairing PCs, your call has been answered. Scott Mueller, author of the best-selling Upgrading and Repairing PCs, is now bringing you an equally in-depth guide to Windows troubleshooting. Upgrading and Repairing Microsoft Windows explains how Windows works and how to fix it when things go wrong. This comprehensive resource includes information on:
* Installation
* Managing security
* Optimizing performance
* Recovering data
* Configuring settings and the registry
* Protecting Windows from viruses and spyware
Scott also includes references to helpful tools and scripting commands for maximum system controls. A DVD is included that provides you with additional resources and unique how-to video that brings Scott right to you. Find out how to make Windows work with you and not against you with Upgrading and Repairing Microsoft Windows.
About the Author
Scott Mueller is the most authoritative hardware voice in the industry. In addition to teaching hardware repair to more than 10,000 computer professionals and enthusiasts, he has sold 2 million + copies of Upgrading and Repairing PCs, making him a world-renowned hardware author and his book a classic. Scott has taught hardware repair to a host of agencies in the U.S. and foreign governments and corporations in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe. The most recent edition of Upgrading and Repairing PCs (16th) published in September 2004, and Upgrading and Repairing Laptops, 2nd Edition publishes in October 2005.
Brian Knittel has been a software developer for nearly 30 years, with over 15 years of real-world experience with MS-DOS, Windows, and computer networking in the business world. Previously, he wrote Windows XP Under the Hood: Hardcore Scripting and Command Line Power, and is co-author of several other Que books including Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows editions covering XP Home, XP Professional and Windows 2000 Professional.




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Windows Vista Secrets -- All the Secrets that you didn’t know until now

Windows Vista Secrets -- All the Secrets that you didn’t know until now

Go beyond Microsoft’s Help guide and discover the true secrets of Windows Vista that are essential to power users. Written by two of the most recognized Windows authorities, this resource provides you with numerous tips, tricks, and undocumented features that aren’t available anywhere else. You’ll find extensive screenshots, tables, and illustrations that clearly show how to achieve optimal performance, fix desktop problems, and take advantage of the robust features of Windows Vista.

The Insider’s Guide to:

* Installing and upgrading your system (see Chap. 2)
* Quickly finding and organizing all of your files (see Chap. 5)
* Taking advantage of new security features (see Chap. 8)
* Creating your own movies and DVDs (see Chap. 12)
*Playing state-of-the-art ##### with amazing effects (see Chap. 14)
* Going wireless using Vistas mobility features (see Chap. 15)
* Managing your schedule with Windows® Calendar (see Chap. 20)

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Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles

Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles

Paperback: 832 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall India
Language: English
ISBN-10: 8120327969
ISBN-13: 978-8120327962
Format: PDF



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Windows XP Digital Music For Dummies

Windows XP Digital Music for Dummies
Now you can give new meaning to the description “High-performance computer!” And you can even choose the performers—Elvis or Elton, the Beatles or Beethoven, Eminem or Englebert, Pfish or Pavarotti. Your Windows XP is like a concert hall, and Windows XP Digital Music For Dummies is just the ticket to get you in and get you enjoying digital music. It will help you get in tune with the times with note-by-note information......

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Your Guide to Easy and Secure Windows Vista Networking is a complete beginner’s guide to creating, configuring, administering, and using a small network using Windows Vista computers. Inside you’ll find comprehensive coverage of networking hardware, including Ethernet (wired) hardware (from NICs to cables to switches to routers) and wireless Hardware–from wireless NICs to access points to range extenders.

We include handy “buyer’s guides” that tell you how to make smart choices when purchasing network hardware. With hardware in hand, we then show you how to roll up your shirtsleeves and put everything together, including configuring a router, laying cable, and connecting the devices. Next, we then show you how to wrangle with Windows Vista’s networking features. These techniques include using the Network and Sharing Center, managing wired and wireless connections, accessing shared network resources, sharing local resources on the network, and working with network files offline. And if you are a music and video aficionado, we’ve got you covered with a special chapter that shows you just how to set up a networked Vista PC as your digital media hub!

No networking book would be complete without extensive coverage of security issues that affect anyone connected to the Internet. We show you how to secure each computer, secure your global networking settings, and batten down your wireless connections. The last part of the book includes intermediate networking tasks such as

making remote connections, monitoring the network, troubleshooting network problems, and setting up Vista’s built-in web server and FTP server.

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Hacking Windows XP - Increase PC Performance

Product Description
Vista is the most radical revamping of Windows since 1995. However, along with all the fantastic improvements, there are a couple of things that likely drive you up the wall. Don’t worry, though—just join forces with author Steve Sinchak and you’ll end up feeling as though Microsoft designed Vista just for you! He shows you how to tweak logon screen settings, build custom Sidebar gadgets, personalize Aero Glass with themes and visual styles, turn your PC into an HDTV media center, fine-tune your firewall, and more.

From the Back Cover
"Why didn't they ask me before they did that?"

Vista is the most radical revamping of Windows since 1995. But along with all the fantastic improvements, there are a couple of things that drive you up the wall. Maybe you're not seeing the performance you expect. Security is better, but boy, is it annoying. And what's with that interface thing that's just in the way? Well, you can fix all that. When you and Steve Sinchak are finished, you'll think Microsoft designed Vista just for you.


How to improve the view
A few of the things you'll learn to do
1. Tweak logon screen settings
2.Build custom Sidebar gadgets
3.Personalize Aero Glass with themes and visual styles
4.Customize Internet Explorer® 7
5.Configure BIOS for maximum boot speed
6.Crank up Windows® Explorer
7.Turn your PC into an HDTV Media Center
8.Fine-tune your firewall

About the Author
Steve Sinchak, in addition to being a Microsoft MVP, is an entrepreneur who runs a Web development firm, Advanced PC Media LLC. He has worked with computers for 15 years and writes for several geek-oriented Web sites, including TweakVista.com. Steve is a systems engineer for a Global 100 company and the author of several books, including Hacking Windows XP, also published by Wiley.

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The Internet Gigabook For Dummies

Get connected, get clicking, and get what you need from the Internet, whether that’s answers from Google, bargains from E-bay, music from iTunes, or merchandise from the thousands of shopping sites. The Internet Gigabook For Dummies has almost 900 pages jam-packed with information, how-tos, tips, techniques, advice, and short-cuts to help you use the Internet for all it’s worth! Whether you’re an experienced Web surfer or just daring to get your feet wet for the first time, you’ll discover how to get the most from the Internet and its most popular sites with information.

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Power Excel and Word

Product Description
“Best-selling author Gookin…keeps readers laughing while he takes them from being a ho-hum user to an advanced office maven.”
—Charles Carr, ComputorEdge Magazine, www.computoredge.com

Just about anyone can slap together a Word document or fill an Excel grid with numbers, but power users understand how to tap into the full functionality of these applications. Best-selling author Dan Gookin skips what you already know and takes you directly to the best and most useful parts of Word and Excel–the commands, shortcuts, and combinations of functions that will give your creations that extra-added wow factor.

The only book to focus exclusively on these two critical applications, Power Excel and Word teaches you how to harness their power and avoid their pitfalls in one compact volume. By following step-by-step tutorials, you’ll discover how to work faster, easier, and smarter. Learn essential techniques you’ll use every day, including how to:

• Precisely format a paragraph in Word
• Manipulate drawings and pictures in a document
• Created your own custom tool bars
• Know when to use a table in Word and when to insert an Excel worksheet
• Embellish your documents and reports
• Generate sophisticated charts and graphs by importing Web-based content
• Use styles and templates to save oodles of time
• Protect your documents against unwanted changes
• Employ Excel as a database manager
• Share your work with others
• Produce a list in Excel as a mail merge database for Word
• And much, much more!

Most Office books are boring and quickly go out of date. Dan Gookin takes a uniquely entertaining approach designed to increase your skills, whether you’re using Office 2003, office XP or Office 2000. And many of these tricks are even effective in Office 97!

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Windows XP Hacks And Mods Free Download

About the Author
In the past fifteen years, Woody Leonhard has written more than computer books, drawing an unprecedented six Computer Press Association awards and two American Business Press awards. Woody was one of the first Microsoft Consulting Partners and is a charter member of the Microsoft Solutions Provider organization. He’s widely quoted — and reviled — on the Redmond campus.

Woody’s Web site, askwoody.com, keeps an eye on the computer industry, covering the latest shenanigans from Microsoft, the best software for your computer, the worst pitfalls (and patches!) to avoid, updates to his books, and all the other information you need to keep your PC chugging away.

Woody lives just this side of paradise in Phuket, Thailand, along with his most significant other, Add, and his son, Justin. Most mornings, you can find him jogging on Patong Beach with their beagle, Chronos, or sipping a latte at Khun Woody’s Bakery. Drop by when you get a chance!

Author’s Acknowledgments

Justin Leonhard contributed numerous ideas, warnings, and hacks to the sections on gaming and the iPod, in particular, and helped with insightful comments in several other parts of the book. Thanks, Justin!

Many thanks, as always, to Claudette Moore and Debbie McKenna at Moore Literary Agency, my guides for nearly 15 years. Thanks, too, to Steve Hayes, Becky Huehls, Colleen Totz, Lee Musick, and all the people at Wiley who made this project work.


What a concept: Windows hacking made accessible to regular Windows users. With your help, I think this book succeeds marvelously.

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