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Windows 98 Annoyances

By David A. Karp
First Edition October 1998
Pages: 464
Series: Annoyances
ISBN 10: 1-56592-417-7 | ISBN 13: 9781565924178
(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)

Book description

Based on the author's popular Windows Annoyances web site, this book provides an authoritative collection of techniques for customizing Windows 98. It allows you to quickly identify a particular annoyance and immediately offers one or more solutions, making it the definitive resource for customizing Windows 98.
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An operating system is a piece of software that should do its work in the background while you do your work in the foreground. In an ideal world, that's precisely how an operating system would work. In our world, however, operating systems constantly get in our way. They annoy us. And few are more annoying than Microsoft Windows 98. Perhaps you're annoyed with the icons that Windows deposits on your desktop and that you never use. Or you're frustrated with the new elements of the Windows 98 interface. Or you consider Windows 98's central feature, its integration of Windows and the Web, to be a massive inconvenience. With Windows 98 Annoyances, you can put an end to these and countless other annoyances. Given the book's format, which presents particular problems and immediately offers one or more solutions, you can quickly identify the Windows 98 features that most annoy you and equally quickly provide a fix for them. In the process, you'll take charge of Windows so that it works the way you want, rather than the way that Microsoft or some other software publisher has configured it. Based on the author's extremely popular Windows Annoyances web site (http://www.annoyances.org), Windows 98 Annoyances provides an authoritative collection of techniques for customizing Windows 98, including:

Useful keyboard shortcuts that let you work with Windows 98 more efficiently
Techniques for working with the Windows registry, the database of system and application-specific configuration information
Available third-party software and utilities that handle some of the more complex workarounds and customizations
Dealing with software applications that overwrite your file associations without warning
A discussion of scripting with the Windows Scripting Host as a means of eliminating many of the Windows 98's annoyances to be the definitive resource for customizing Windows 98.

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Windows 98 Annoyances Review, June 28 2000

Rating:

Submitted by Dale Webber   [Respond | View]

Praise Allah!, solid information on what has to be
a very common stumbling block for millions: Configuration of Dial-Up Networking and the related Modem Properties and Networking configuration tabs. Data communications is overloaded with mis-informed know-it-alls dispensing drivel.

I have Win98 OSR2 however, and some differences can be found from when my copy of your book was
published.

Windows 98 Annoyances Review, March 30 2000
Submitted by tturing@e-imagers.com   [Respond | View]

Couple this book with "Windows 98 in a Nutshell" and you've got a set that makes it unnecessary to buy any other Windows 98 books. I've acquired many Windows books, including huge tomes, and have found none as helpful as these.

Windows 98 Annoyances Review, August 22 1999
Submitted by Kurt Peterson   [Respond | View]

I am a newbie to windows 98. Slowness of loading and navigating were baffling me. I have a pentium II 400mhz w/288 megs of ram and still I find "slow". This utility group is great!! I downloaded the intro version and am now convinced this guy knows what the heck he is doin'. I am purchasing today, thanks for a great product and information.
Kurt Peterson

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Windows 98 Annoyances Review, April 12 1999
Submitted by William R. Heese   [Respond | View]

This is one of the better Windows 98 books I have seen. I really enjoy this computer book which is quite something considering how dry most computer books are. This one is top notch. I like the subtitle "Taking Charge of Windows 98" because that is exactly what this book does, helping you to take charge of the quirks of Windows 98. It is the most pratical Windows 98 there is!!

Windows 98 Annoyances Review,
Submitted by Donald P Drews   [Respond | View]

It's just a thought, but, if all your friends and coworkers buy a copy, after a couple of months, Microsoft will have to ask themselves why they aren't making any money on their internet help lines.

Windows 98 Annoyances Review,
Submitted by Joe@StopTheMonopolist.com   [Respond | View]

This book is particularly well written and I love the "Annoyances" series. There is one book however, that is missing from the Annoyances series. I would like to see a book titled "Microsoft Annoyances" that discusses some of Microsoft's annoying business practices.

Media reviews "A veritable mine of information about Win98."--Major Keary, PC Update, June 2002

"This book is a virtual mine of information about Win98. There
would be few, no matter how expert, who could not find something
about windows they didn?t know before. This title may go out of print,
so if you intend sticking with Win98 it would be a good idea to look
around the bookshops for a copy now."
--Major Keary, Book News, Sept 2001

"one of the most comprehensive books of tips, tricks, and fixes for Windows 98 under one cover this is one of the books that will stay by my Windows 98 machine where I can find it right away." --Dave Lenheim, Wind-News, Feb 2001

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