Welcome to the home page of Microsoft Windows 7 Unleashed! 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 7 was designed from the ground up to avoid confusing novice users. To unleash the potential of Windows 7, you need a different approach that blows away 7'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 7 books. Instead, this book offers shortcuts for boosting your productivity, customizations for making Windows 7 work the way you do, workarounds for known Windows 7 problems, and warnings for avoiding Windows 7 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.
"Wait a minute," I hear you say, "Windows 7 isn't even released yet, so why is your book out now?"
I realized that Windows 7 was essentially done when Microsoft offered the Release Candidate (RC) beta version back on April 30. So I updated the book based on the RC and my publisher did the rest. Yes, there will be a new version of the book based on the final Windows 7 code, but you won't miss out if you get the RC edition, because Sams will give you a free online copy of the final version! You're here and losing is way over there!
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 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 12, which shows you how to work (safely!) wiuth the Windows 7 Registry . |
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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. | |