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(More customer reviews)I've now consumed the entire book. The book is so very useful and pleasant -- in a substantive way. No colors, not an excessive amount of cutesiness (but a tiny spriknling, just the right amount, of humor). But in short, nothing distracting, but still pleasant to look at. More importantly, "Unleashed" is a true pleasure to USE -- because the material is all very useful and not the least bit difficult to understand what to do. Just as an example.... If you choose classic logon instead of the welcome screen, one would think there is no way to get your password hint. True enough. BUT, due to this book I got my hint in anyway, even with the Classic Logon which has no way to give password hint. How'd I do that? Well the book told me how I can make a Security Warning screen be whatever I want. I can title it whatever I want and I can have in the screen whatever I want. So guess what I did? I made the "Security Screen" be titled "Mark's Password Hint" and I put my hint in the text box. So before I'm requested to give my password I get the security warning as customized for me -- that is password hint. The mechanism was editing the registry. You will no longer be afraid of such a thing (editing the registry) with this book by your side. Now admitedly you, as the reader of a review on the BOOK probably did not want the specific task of getting your password hint to show up even when it can't (because you're not using the Welcome screen logon). But you need a concrete example of the kind of thing the book can do for you. I started with a logon example (and I used the books other logon/startup material too) because that's where the book starts. The book is very orderly. I have used it for a great deal more -- including optimal running of XP (such things as changing pagefile size and so on and so on). Truely a superb book. What about the book XP Inside Out Deluxe. Great stuff too, but you should start and consume ALL of the Unleashed book first, and only THEN go to XP Inside Out. Inside Out is harder to know where you're at because the book is so huge. Unleashed also has a higher percentage of things you'll really want to do. There are a couple of items that only Inside Out has but whatever Inside Out has that is also in Unleashed, the Unleashed book does it better. Definitely start with Unleashed and you'll easily and enthusiastically eat it up. If you need cutesiness with just a bit of informativeness get one of the "for dummies..." type books. But if you intend to really DO anything with what you read, UNLEASHED is THE optimal book. For a few extras, LATER get the XP Inside Out book -- but not till you've totally consumed UNLEASHED.
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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.
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