Publisher: Sybex Inc
Author: Guy Hart-Davis
ISBN: 0782129803
Release Date: 28 September 2001
eBook Description
The Only Windows XP Home Resource You Need
Here’s the insider knowledge you need to make the most of Microsoft’s powerful new home OS, whether you’re upgrading from Windows 98 or Me, or moving straight to XP. Combining a full-color graphical treatment of essential XP skills with detailed discussion of the whys behind Windows configuration, this comprehensive guide delivers full coverage of every topic from installation to networking. Whether you’re using XP on a desktop computer or a notebook, you’ll find the information you need to master XP, networking, and the Internet.
Coverage includes:
- Upgrade from Windows 98/Me or perform a clean installation
- Use XP’s multiple-user technology
- Customize Windows
- Install, remove, and run programs
- Share files-but keep your private files secure
- Add hardware, install drivers, and optimize XP
- Connect your computer or network securely to the Internet
- Send secure e-mail
- Chat using text, voice, and video
- Control your office PC remotely
- Give or get help via the Internet
- Send and receive faxes
- Enjoy audio, video, and DVDs
- Burn your own CDs
- Download pictures, capture video, and edit your own movies
- Build a home network
Includes full-color, visual instruction of Windows XP’s key skills. In minutes, you’ll learn how to record a CD, set up an Internet connection, use XP’s powerful System Restore feature, install hardware drivers, and much more.
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Mastering Windows XP Home Edition
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Publisher: Wiley
Author: Steve Sinchak
ISBN: 0764569295
Release Date: 06 August 2004
eBook Description
- Get ready for some down-and-dirty hackin’! Over 200 serious hacks readers can use to force Windows XP to do it their way, written in the ExtremeTech no-holds-barred style
- Sinchak doesn’t waste time tweaking Movie Maker or Instant Messenger-these hacks are heavy-duty, detailed instructions for squeezing every drop of power from Windows XP and maximizing speed, appearance, and security
- Not for the faint of heart! This book is written for users who aren’t afraid to roll up their sleeves, risk voiding their warranties, take total control of the task bar, uninstall programs that are supposedly permanent, and beef up boot speed
- Mines gems like unlocking hidden settings, customizing boot screens, supercharging online and program launch speed, maximizing the file system and RAM, and dumping hated features for good
- Written by the creator of TweakXP.com, a site considered Mecca for Windows hackers and trusted by more than ten million Windows XP users worldwide
- Includes a hacker’s dream CD-ROM with a set of ready-to-install hacks, theme creation tools, custom boot screens, “undo” files that help the reader tinker with Windows XP’s registry, and a whole lot more
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Hacking Windows XP (ExtremeTech)
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Publisher: Wiley
Author: Curt Simmons
ISBN: 0764549987
Release Date: 02 January 2004
eBook Description
- Shows power users how to take Windows XP to the next level, focusing on functionality, networking, and overall performance
- Features to-the-point coverage that skips introductory explanations and focuses instead on the real-world tips and tricks power users need to become more productive
- Written in a friendly, approachable style by experienced XP author and power user Curt Simmons
- Topics covered include scripting, managing applications, making the most of digital media, power management, hardware management, the registry and file systems, security, auditing, backup and data storage, system performance, system recovery, Microsoft’s popular download XP Power Toys, networking, and wireless
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Windows XP for Power Users: Power Pack
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Publisher: Microsoft Press
Author: Craig Stinson
ISBN: 0735618054
Release Date: 16 October 2002
eBook Description
Ed Bott and Carl Siechert have combined their considerable talents for producing user-level documentation in creating Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out. One of the most carefully researched books on Windows XP to date, this large volume has all the information and procedures most everyday users of the operating system will want. With its nicely formatted how-to instructions, detailed documentation of command-line commands, intelligent explanatory text, and broad scope, this book makes a great reference for a family or business that uses Windows XP extensively. Even the illustrations are more helpful than usual, largely because the publisher has gone to the trouble of annotating many of them with pointers and labels.
Bott and Siechert deal with the most controversial features of Windows XP, notably product activation, in a straightforward way. They simply explain what activation is for, tell how to go about it, and move on. If you’re a power user interested in getting around activation and performing other unsanctioned hacks, look for your information in online newsletters. This book plays by Microsoft’s rules, and that’s fine. It’s obvious that the authors have had access to Windows XP for some time, and spent a lot of time exploring its new features. Count on this book to explain the complete set of Windows XP’s features–even the exciting networking stuff–in terms you can easily follow. –David Wall
Topics covered: Microsoft Windows XP (Professional and Home editions) for home and office users who want to install, use, and run applications. Emphasis is on basic set-up and configuration, hardware installation and modification, file management, multimedia, and networking.
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Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out, Deluxe Edition
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Publisher: Microsoft Press
Author: Carl Siechert
ISBN: 0735613826
Release Date: 25 October 2001
eBook Description
Ed Bott and Carl Siechert have combined their considerable talents for producing user-level documentation in creating Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out. One of the most carefully researched books on Windows XP to date, this large volume has all the information and procedures most everyday users of the operating system will want. With its nicely formatted how-to instructions, detailed documentation of command-line commands, intelligent explanatory text, and broad scope, this book makes a great reference for a family or business that uses Windows XP extensively. Even the illustrations are more helpful than usual, largely because the publisher has gone to the trouble of annotating many of them with pointers and labels.
Bott and Siechert deal with the most controversial features of Windows XP, notably product activation, in a straightforward way. They simply explain what activation is for, tell how to go about it, and move on. If you’re a power user interested in getting around activation and performing other unsanctioned hacks, look for your information in online newsletters. This book plays by Microsoft’s rules, and that’s fine. It’s obvious that the authors have had access to Windows XP for some time, and spent a lot of time exploring its new features. Count on this book to explain the complete set of Windows XP’s features–even the exciting networking stuff–in terms you can easily follow. –David Wall
Topics covered: Microsoft Windows XP (Professional and Home editions) for home and office users who want to install, use, and run applications. Emphasis is on basic set-up and configuration, hardware installation and modification, file management, multimedia, and networking.
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Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne
Author: James Keogh
ISBN: 0072261412
Release Date: 01 September 2005
eBook Description
There’s no easier, faster, or more practical way to learn the really tough subjects ASP .NET 2.0 Demystified explains how to write server-sidecomponents for dynamic,interactive Web pages andpowerful Web-based applicationsthat are easy to developand modify. This self-teaching guide comes complete with key points, background information, quizzes at the end of each chapter, and even a final exam. Simple enough for beginners but challenging enough for advanced students, this is a livelyand entertaining brush-up, introductory text, or classroom supplement.
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ASP.NET 2.0 Demystified (Demystified)
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne
Author: Jeff Kent
ISBN: 0072261706
Release Date: 28 November 2005
eBook Description
There’s no easier, faster, or more practical way to learn the really tough subjects Visual C# 2005 Demystified explains the language and its libraries and applications as well as how to use the integrated development environment. This self-teaching guide comes complete with key points, background information, quizzes at the end of each chapter, and even a final exam. Simple enough for beginners but challenging enough for advanced students, this is a lively and entertaining brush-up, introductory text, or classroom supplement.
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Visual C# 2005 Demystified (Demystified)
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Publisher: Wrox Press
Author: Richard Braden
ISBN: 1556220979
Release Date: 30 October 2005
eBook Description
This text is a handbook of instructions written for the programmer or analyst that shows how to insert common algorithmic functions in C# into one’s source code. The code is listed on a companion CD for easy transfer to one’s current C# program. The first 12 chapters discuss specifics of the Visual C# compiler: the integrated developer environment (IDE); moving projects from one location to another; passing information between windows; Visual C# code placement; classes, constructors, overloading, and helps; data types and declarations; conversions between data types; string manipulation and on-line data storage; branching and looping; and arithmetic.
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Unlocking Microsoft C# V 2.0 Programming Secrets (Wordware Applications Library)
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Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Author: Bill Grindlay
ISBN: 0764578014
Release Date: 14 July 2005
eBook Description
Databases are the nerve center of our economy. Every piece of your personal information is stored there-medical records, bank accounts, employment history, pensions, car registrations, even your children’s grades and what groceries you buy. Database attacks are potentially crippling-and relentless.
In this essential follow-up to The Shellcoder’s Handbook, four of the world’s top security experts teach you to break into and defend the seven most popular database servers. You’ll learn how to identify vulnerabilities, how attacks are carried out, and how to stop the carnage. The bad guys already know all this. You need to know it too.
- Identify and plug the new holes in Oracle and Microsoft(r) SQL Server
- Learn the best defenses for IBM’s DB2(r), PostgreSQL, Sybase ASE, and MySQL(r) servers
- Discover how buffer overflow exploitation, privilege escalation through SQL, stored procedure or trigger abuse, and SQL injection enable hacker access
- Recognize vulnerabilities peculiar to each database
- Find out what the attackers already know
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The Database Hacker’s Handbook : Defending Database Servers
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Publisher: Charles River Media
Author: Jeff Fellinge
ISBN: 1584502126
Release Date: 13 January 2004
eBook Description
A key problem with Microsoft Windows is that its friendly user interface can get in the way of efficient system administration. There’s no easy way, for example, to use the graphical administration tools to determine which of your users have passwords that will soon expire. The answers to such problems of administration come in the form of scripts written for the Windows Script Host (WSH), which are what IT Administrator’s Top 10 Introductory Scripts for Windows aims to teach its readers about. It succeeds; Jeff Fellinge takes on 10 significant administration challenges (getting a list of a machine’s local user accounts remotely, comparing successive weeks’ computer rosters, getting a concise report of users and groups on Active Directory, and so on) and shows how to solve them. It’s a handy resource for an administrator who’s not fond of trooping across the office (or, all too frequently, the country) to do menial tasks.
This book should also prove useful to programmers interested in integrating their products with Active Directory. Fellinge takes care to document his scripts in detail–he does not commit the popular sin of presenting the user with giant, unexplained code listings–and it’s usually easy to figure out why he’s designed his code as he as. Combined with a reference that details JScript for WSH, this book will prove especially valuable. –David Wall
Topics covered: How to use JScript and the Windows Script Host (WSH) to write time-saving administrative scripts for Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, and (to a far lesser extent) Windows NT.
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IT Administrator’s Top Ten Introductory Scripts for Windows (Administrator’s Advantage Series) (Administrator’s Adantage Series)
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