Product Description

Learn everything you need to know for working with Windows Vista--from the inside out! Written by the authors of the immensely popular Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out, this book packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds for using the latest version of the Microsoft Windows® operating system--all in concise, fast-answer format. Dig into the work-ready tools and resources that help you take your Windows Vista experience to the next level. Get the answers you need to use the new features of Windows Vista, including the sidebar and gadgets, and the Windows slideshow. You'll also discover how to use new features in Microsoft Windows Media® Player and Microsoft Internet Explorer® 7. Get up-to-date information on how to configure and customize your desktop, how to use new security-enhanced features, and more. Plus, you'll get tools, ebBooks, and more on the companion CD. With INSIDE OUT, you get all muscle and no fluff!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23514 in Books
• Brand: Microsoft
• Published on: 2007-01-18
• Platform: No Operating System
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 3.70 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 1132 pages

From the Publisher
Key Book Benefits:

-Award-winning INSIDE OUT format makes hundreds of tips, tricks, and workarounds easy to find and easy to use -Includes coverage of new features in Windows Vista, Windows Media Player, and Internet Explorer 7 -Details how to configure and customize your desktop and how to use security-enhanced features -Includes a companion CD with tools, eBooks, and more

About the Author
Ed Bott is an award-winning journalist and one of the most recognized voices in the computing world. He's been working with and writing about Windows for more than 15 years.

Carl Siechert has coauthored several Windows-related books, including Microsoft Windows Security and Networking Inside Out with Ed Bott.

Craig Stinson is contributing editor for PC Magazine. He has written or coauthored more than 15 books, including Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Expert Companion.

Customer Reviews

Inadequate details for truly advanced users
I was a big fan of the previos Windows XP Inside Out book, but this one, on Vista, is a disappointment for someone like me who was looking for detailed information on every aspect of Vista. Granted, that's probably an impossible task for a one-volume book, however thick, but at least I was expecting a detailed treatment on performance topics. As Vista offers more tools to monitor and finetune performance, I was dismayed to discover that this book only offers perfunctory information; it doesn't even bother to explain all the information that's displayed in Task Manager or Resource Monitor, for instance. As another example, the three pages on ReadyBoost seem like they were taken from Microsoft's website, with *no* insight whatsoever.

I think the problem with this book lies in the authors' trying to fit a book about Vista on the same mold as an older book about XP. The content feels rushed. I'll check out the Deluxe Edition, which was published a year later, to see if it's any better, and will report later after I obtain a copy from my local public library.

Very useful, but somewhat biased
This book probably has just about anything anyone would want to know about Vista. It's big and thick and I assume that, because it's published by Microsoft, it's accurate. But because it's published by Microsoft, it's biased; you'd never find anything critical of Microsoft in the book, which only advises the use of a non-Microsoft software alternative if it's a situation that the Microsoft product just absolutely cannot handle.

In general, the attitude of the book is that Microsoft software has no flaws; if you can live with that, you will find the book useful because (shorn of the cheerleading) it's the most complete reference on Vista you can find.

A Valuable Guide to Vista
This Tome of 1100 pages by Bott, Siechert & Stinson, offers comprehensive guidance in the application of the myriad of facilities offered by Vista, to those who do not need to be a Geek!