This guide delivers critical, unbiased information that other books can't--or won't--reveal about the inside scoop on Windows 98. Bestselling author Paul McFedries offers readers a clear, concise approach to computer topics with an insider's twist. Get answers to your most-asked, hard-to-find-answers-to questions about W98.

The Unleashed Professional Reference edition takes you beyond the average discussions of the technology, giving you practical advice and in-depth coverage. With this extensive guide you'll obtain the skills, understanding, and breadth of knowledge to unleash the full potential of Windows 98. Paul McFedries' Windows 98 Unleashed, Professional Reference Edition includes the Microsoft Tech Net Sampler and four additional electronic reference chapters, a Windows 98 Knowledge Base, a glossary of computer and networking terms, a great collection of shareware and freeware, Microsoft Tech Net Sampler, and the Windows 98 and Windows NT Knowledge Base. With this encyclopedia of solutions, you will learn to automate tasks using the Windows Scripting Host and batch file programming; control Windows 98 startup; master Web integration and the Active Desktop; customize the Taskbar, Start menu, and display; optimize memory and disk access; and get the most out of Device Manager and hardware profiles.

The ideal reference for developers creating applications for 32-bit Windows, this authoritative book delivers what every Windows programmer should know about design, code, and implementing cutting-edge Windows applications.1,100 pp.

The book will instruct the advanced user on how to exploit all of the features of XP, creating a finely tuned system, optimized for top-notch performance. Comprehensive coverage of Windows XP Professional. Features secrets to optimization with explanations not normally found in user manuals accompanying software. Coverage of advanced topics to benefit the IT Professional. Terry guides the advanced reader through nearly every Windows XP topic imaginable giving ideas and solutions practical to typical problems encountered by professionals. Here are a few examples: installations, use, and maintenance; performance tuning; optimizing memory; detailed registry info; pushing hardware profiles to their limits; XP system tools; how to build network bridges between Dissimilar operating systems; working with compatibility modes to enable older o/s to interact with XP; device driver rollback; automatic driver up20011219; ensuring perfect printing always; maximizing XP for the Internet and intranets, and security, and more! As a consultant, Terry Ogletree travels the world, consulting with major corporations on nearly every imaginable computer topic, from disaster recovery to operating systems. His clients include Bristol-Myers Squidd, Digital Equipment and AT&T. Terry is well known for his magazine articles and devotion to writing computer books. Recent publications include: Windows NT Server 4.0 Networking (Vol. 4 of Sams Windows NT 4 and Website Resource Library) Sams Computer Publishing, 1997, 0672309947; Practical Firewalls (Que Publishing, June 2000), 0789724162, Upgrading and Repairing Networks, Second Edition (Que Publishing, December 1999), 0789720345, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating Your Own CDs (Que/Alpha Books), 0789724928.

"Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed, 2E" offers a variety of topics for system and database administrators to help them learn new features of the product and to solve problems they face on a daily basis. It shows them how to build upon their working knowledge of the product and take their experience and knowledge to a higher level. This new edition of "Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed" covers the latest updates and service packs to SQL Server 2000, including full support for XML, notification services, and SQL Server CE.

While what you create using your computer is a unique expression of who you are, how you use your computer probably isn't. Nearly every Windows XP user follows the same Start menu path to launch programs, uses the same standard techniques in programs like Windows Explorer and Outlook Express, and performs the same customizations that don't go much beyond changing the wallpaper. However, there are those of us who qualify as the "post-novice" user, who think that doing things the "official" way is too slow, less efficient and less powerful than there is potential for with Windows XP. Microsoft Windows XP Unleashed will take you beyond the standard-issue default settings and program wizards to shortcuts, new customization techniques, workarounds for common problems, and warnings on how to avoid the pitfalls of Windows XP, including those associated with Service Pack 2. Along the way, you'll learn about all kinds of insider details, undocumented features, powerful tools, and background facts that help put everything about Windows XP into perspective.