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| Book: | Windows Vista: The Definitive Guide | |
| Subject: | Outstanding reference.... | |
| Date: | 2007-03-15 09:17:59 | |
| From: | jdruin | |
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Rating:
This book does an excellent job of covering the various user inferfaces within Vista. The book is generally grouped by setting up your interface (desktop, menus, etc.), managing programs and files, managing peripherals, multimedia, networking, security, and installation. Each section is broken down into chapters that cover a genneral topic. The book is well organized and generally is ordered in such a way that more basic questions would be answered in the earlier chapters and the more difficult questions in later chapters. One suggestion I might have would be to put the section on installation up front since anyone installing Vista right now is like doing so for the first time and may need help with this. The book does cover installation quite well though. This section is located in the back of the book in the advanced section. Some of the best feature in my opinion are the chapters dedicated to networking and security. Vista handles these topics significantly differently that XP and the author took the time to explain the new features clearly. The login chapter is disjoint from the security chapter but this is not too much of an inconvience since the login section is located up front which does make sense. The section on keyboard shortcuts will be particuarly helpful for system admins and power users that avoid the mouse when possible. A poster or cut out of these would have been a nice addition. Overall the book is excellent in its information content, readability and indexing. |
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