Optimizing Windows® 7 Pocket Consultant

Introduction

Welcome to Optimizing Windows 7 Pocket Consultant. Over the years, I’ve written about many different Windows technologies and products, but one of the products I like writing about most is Windows itself. When you start working with Windows 7, you’ll see at once that this operating system is visually different from earlier releases of Windows. What won’t be readily apparent, however, is just how different—and that’s because many of the most significant changes to the operating system are under the surface. These changes affect the underlying architecture, not just the interfaces—and they were some of the hardest for me to research and write about.

In this book, I teach you how features work, why they work the way they do, and how to ...