Windows 95 secrets 4th Edition "You can't get the beast to run? Does the Registry need CPR? … Don't boot up without Windows 95 Secrets." — Robert Luhn, Computer Currents Now in its fourth edition, the internationally acclaimed Windows 95 Secrets contains hundreds of invaluable inside techniques for optimizing your operating system. Experts Brian Livingston and Davis Straub have spent more than three years taking apart Windows 95. With precise and detailed instructions, they reveal the many undocumented features and time-saving shortcuts that will help you realize the promise of Windows 95 — from installing and configuring software to connecting to the Internet and networking. Optimize your Windows 95 performance! 
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<li>Use shortcuts to open your system and files</li> <li>Customize your startup, desktop settings, and file management system</li> <li>Edit the Registry to change underlying parameters</li> <li>Run and optimize your DOS applications</li> <li>Install new plug-and-play devices without conflicting with your existing peripherals</li> <li>Create briefcases to edit and update files on both your desktop and your laptop</li> <li>Take full advantage of Windows' built-in dial-up networking capabilities</li> <li>Configure your computer as a networking client</li> <li>Connect to the Internet with Internet Explorer</li> </ul> Try out Livingston's and Straub's top 275+ picks of high-performance freeware and shareware for Windows 95 Internet and Web Publishing Tools <ul>
<li>Communication Tools</li> <li>Mail Clients and Utilities</li> <li>Dial-up Networking Tools</li> <li>Remote Computing Tools</li> <li>FTP Clients</li> <li>Internet Suites</li> <li>Web Browsing and Authoring Tools</li> <li>HTML Editors</li> <li>Networking Tools</li> </ul> Productivity Tools and Utilities <ul>
<li>Automation Tools</li> <li>File Managers and Compression Tools</li> <li>Memory and Benchmarking Tools</li> <li>Virus Protection Software</li> <li>Calendar and Time Management Programs</li> <li>Personal Finance Managers</li> <li>Database Managers</li> <li>Graphics and Text Editing Tools</li> <li>Programming Tools</li> </ul> Multimedia, Games, and More … <ul>
<li>MS Power Toys</li> <li>Desktop Enhancements</li> <li>Onscreen Notes and Stickies</li> <li>Presentations and Slide Shows</li> <li>Video and Animation Tools</li> <li>T-shirt Designs</li> <li>Exercise Programs</li> </ul> Shareware programs are fully functional, free trial versions of copyrighted programs. If you like particular programs, register with their authors for a nominal fee and receive licenses, enhanced versions, and technical support. Freeware programs are free, copyrighted games, applications, and utilities. You can copy them to as many PCs as you like—free—but they have no technical support.

Windows? 95 SECRETS?

Computers & Technology

Livingston, Brian

Straub, Davis

Operating Systems

wiley

Windows 98, the ballyhooed new Microsoft operating system, is finally here and the best-selling Windows author duo ? Brian Livingston and Davis Straub ? mark this momentous software release with their seminal guide, Windows 98 Secrets. Livingston and Straub divulge undocumented features and time-saving shortcuts designed to maximize your Windows 98 experience. Windows 98 Secrets explains how to connect directly to the Web using the Active Desktop, take advantage of dynamic communication advances, optimize new security options, tweak the registry, customize your desktop, and much more. You can also sample 200 Windows 98 software programs hand-picked by Livingston and Straub on the Windows 98 Secrets bonus CD-ROM. There is also a bevy of handy resources packed onto the CD including FTP clients, HTML editors, database managers, automation tools, and Internet suites. Thanks to Livingston and Straub, the Windows 98 wizard has been exposed and with Windows 98 Secrets, you can reap the rewards.

Windows 98 Secrets

Don't just upgrade, optimize! Now you can get the most out of Microsoft's new operating system thanks to Windows® 98 Secrets® Gold. With four CDs and over 1200 pages of critical Windows 98 inside information, Windows 98 Secrets Gold is the ultimate Windows companion. Windows 98 Secrets Gold offers four bonus CD-ROMs offering updated Windows applications, tools, utilities, and a fully searchable electronic edition of Windows 98 Secrets for instant access.  Authors Brian Livingston and Davis Straub have culled a wide array of powerful software tools spanning web publishing, multimedia, games, utilities and much more. Youll find HTML editors, networking tools, movie players, personal finance managers, schedulers, memory tools, and desktop enhancements.

Windows 98 Secrets Gold: Boxed

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Windows 98 Secrets Gold: Wrapped

In this all-new guide, Brian Livingston and Davis Straub deliver hundreds of fresh Windows 98 solutions, shortcuts, tune-ups, and techniques -- and reveal how to get more out of Windows 98 Second Edition, from Internet Explorer 5 and Internet Connection Sharing to the Windows Media Player and digital video support. Install the e-version of the book on your hard drive and use it as a help system. Packed with live links to some of the best Windows 98 shareware and freeware on the Web, MORE Windows 98 Secrets is your source for winning Windows 98 solutions.

MORE Windows? 98 Secrets?

Depending on your temperament, one of the best things about complex, feature-rich software like Windows 95 is that there's always something new to discover -- a new capability, a new shortcut key combination, or a new way to customize your desktop. On the other hand, no matter your temperament, one of the worst things about complex, feature-rich software is that there are plenty of things to go wrong, plenty of things to stymie even the savvyest of users. 
 Windows 95 SECRETS, 3rd Edition, has proven such a successful international bestseller because of the thorough, in-depth look it affords into the best and the worst of Windows 95. To produce this indispensable, exhaustive reference, Windows experts Brian Livingston and Davis Straub spent more than 18 months taking the operating system apart, going where Microsoft's official documentation fears to tread. Here you'll discover essential and sometimes useless but fun secrets, including how to… Customize Windows 95 desktop settings, filenames, fonts, icons, and links to suit the way you like to work Share information around your office -- and the whole world -- with Windows 95's built-in dial-up networking, faxing, and connections to online services, the Internet, and the World Wide Web Configure the way Windows 95 uses your PC's RAM, so that greedy Windows and DOS applications run smoothly Set up your hardware and peripherals to eliminate conflicts and add new plug-and-play devices such as CD-ROM drives, modems, and sound cards quickly and without a lot of hassle 
 Plus, Windows 95 SECRETS includes a bonus CD-ROM containing the world's best collection of freeware and shareware. You get over 200 programs, including… Desktop Publishing Programs for better-looking publications, ads, and other documents Database Managers to keep your addresses, phone numbers, and other information in order Font Managers and Dingbats to manage your font collection and give your documents that professional look Video Players to let you run movies right on your own PC Arcade Games with video-like speed and action Word Games to puzzle your mind and sharpen your vocabulary Card Games that pit you against the top card sharks Word Processors and Text Editors to help you write, spell-check, mail-merge, and print letters, labels, envelopes, and everything else Power Launchers that set off any activity you desire, at any time of the day or night, automatically Installer and Uninstaller Software to create your own setup routines and get rid of old, unwanted programs File Managers that surpass even the new long filenames allowed by Windows 95 Network Tools to give the look and power of Windows to your whole network Spelling and Grammar Checkers that work for you regardless of whether your applications have these features Privacy Tools to help you "shred" documents and protect valuable information from hackers Zip and Unzip Utilities that let you compress or uncompress files you download from the Internet Hex Editors that get you under the hood of applications so that you can tweak things beyond what the application officially allows

Windows 95 Secrets

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