Welcome to the home page of Microsoft Windows Vista Unleashed, Second Edition! This book is for people, like you, who don't consider themselves to be "average users." It's a book for anyone who finds that doing things the official way is slower, less efficient, and less powerful because Windows Vista was designed from the ground up to avoid confusing novice users. The result is default settings that restrict flexibility, interminable wizards that turn two-step tasks into twelve-step sagas, and the hiding of powerful and useful programs behind layers of menus and dialog boxes. To unleash the potential of Windows Vista, you need a different approach that blows away Vista's novice features and scorns the standard way of doing things.
This book goes beyond the standard-issue techniques sanctioned by Microsoft and parroted in other Windows Vista books. Instead, this book offers shortcuts for boosting your productivity, customizations for making Windows Vista work the way you do, workarounds for known Windows Vista problems, and warnings for avoiding Windows Vista pitfalls. Along the way, you'll learn about all kinds of insider details, undocumented features, powerful tools, and background facts that help put everything into perspective.
Please use the links below to learn more about the book. (For some of the links you'll need a program that can open PDF files, such as Adobe Reader.)
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Table of Contents |
| Want to know what's in the book? Check out the Table of Contents, which includes the Contents at a Glance (just the chapters) as well as the complete contents of each chapter. |
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Introduction |
| Want to know more about the book? Check out the Introduction, which tells you why I wrote the book and who I wrote it for, and also gives you an overview of the book's content and features. |
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Sample Chapter |
| Want to take a bit of the book for a spin? Read the full text of Chapter 6, which explains what program variable are and how you use them with VBA. |
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Index |
| Want to know whether the book covers a specific topic that's near and dear to your heart? No problem. Check out the detailed Index, which lists every last topic that I cover in the book. |
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Example Files |
| Want to download the example files that I use in the book? No problem! I've crammed everything into examples.zip, a compressed file that includes all the book's scripts and batch files. |
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Forum |
| Want to ask a question about the book or let the world know what you thought of it? Have your say in The Dialogue Box. | |