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A smart collection of insider tips and tricks, Windows XP Hacks, Second Edition covers the XP operating system from start to finish. Among the multitude of topics addressed, this must-have resource includes extensive coverage of hot-button issues such as: security web browsing controlling the control panel removing uninstallable XP components pop-up ads You’ll also find timesaving hacks for file distribution; digital media, such as iTunes; and high-visibility web software, services, and exploits that have emerged since the book’s last edition. Each hack in the book can be read easily in just a few minutes, saving countless hours of searching for the right answer. Now completely revised and updated to cover Service Pack 2 (SP2), the second edition of this bestseller carefully breaks down the new features that come with SP2, including IE pop-up blocker, Windows Firewall, and the new wireless client. Written by Preston Gralla, the compact and affordable Windows XP Hacks (more…)

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Troubleshooting and Configuring the Windows NT/95 Registry offers practical solutions, tips, and warnings. Learn them and you’ll be able to use the registry to control the Windows operating system, its security features, networking, installed 32-bit applications, device drivers, and users. This tutorial will help you understand the registry’s structure and underlying concepts. While some of the information will be relevant for end users, this book is fundamentally geared toward systems administrators. The initial chapters provide a substantial introduction to the structure of the registry and teach you how to protect it, recover from failure, make changes to it using the Regedit32 editor, and even perform edits remotely. The next sections explain how to use the registry for hardware control, networking configuration, user administration, and domain server management and detail how to manage Windows 95 users with the System Policy Editor. (more…)

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There is a lot to Windows XP, but Windows XP Power Hound will help make sure you soon understand it. It covers both the Home and Pro editions and is full of tips, tricks and tweaks to get you going. provides expert guidance on everything from the desktop to the registry, and also covers Microsoft Office programs.? ? Tom McKay, Scottish Sunday Post, Jan 9 2005

Windows XP can be a great tool, but it is all too easy to trip over Windows XP’s annoying traits more often than you leverage its productivity. Windows XP power-users troll online resources, documentation, and the expertise (or lucky finds) of friends for valuable tips and tricks–a keyboard shortcut here, an undocumented double-click there–to eliminate annoyances, save time, and take control of their Windows XP. But what if there was an easier way? This new book presents literally hundreds of problems and solutions, amazing power tips, cool tricks, and clever workarounds in one (more…)

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The Registry hasn’t gone away. It’s more important than ever–and every bit as cryptic as before–in Windows 2000. Windows 2000 Registry for Dummies explains what the Registry is used for, how it works, and how you (a power user with an interest in optimizing the appearance and performance of your PC) can perform surgery on it. Throughout this book, the emphasis is on exploration and experimentation with the greatest possible degree of safety, so you’re given full information on backing up the Registry before the authors show you how to start paring away at its branches and leaves. You’ll find lots of conceptual information, including a neat explanation of the Registry’s logical structure and the files that hold it. But the best part of Weadock’s work may be his little how-to items, such as the one that explains how to sort the items in the Start menu alphabetically and the one that automatically clears lists of recently used documents (and recently vi (more…)