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Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out (Bpg-Inside Out) |
Author: Ed Bott
Published: 2004-10-06 |
List price: $44.99
Our price: $29.69
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 Windows XP Inside Out
My order came in pretty good condition with just the corners bent some. I contacted those who sent the book who informed me if
I had contacted them earlier which I will do in the future my order could have been shrunk wrapped. I would definitely order from them again.
Dean
4 Stars if you Start with this Book; 5 Stars for this book if you start with "XP Unleashed" book First
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.
 I like it
As far as I can tell, it cover everything about windows XP Professional and Home Edition. I recomment this to both every day user and profesional.
 A Time Wasting Volume
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.
Great Primer, Goes Back to Basics
And helps the advanced IT/Computer Guru not overlook the simple things first, which we all do at times.
Well written, non condescending and not over the head of the newbie, but informative and helpful as a guide.
I keep it on my bookshelf as a primary reference, and if you work with Windows XP as a user/power user/tekky at all, you should too.
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