Windows XP Annoyances
by David A. Karp
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Book Reviews of Windows XP Annoyances
Book Review: Plethora of XP information and Registry Hacks
Summary: 5 Stars
This wonderful book is a Plethora of XP information and Registry Hacks, that will help the average user or IT professional. I loved the Annoyances website so much, that I invested in this hard-copy book, which has proven to be more than worth the money.I was skeptical of messing with the registry, other than basic Hacks to access certain features of Internet Explorer, at work, until I read "Windows XP Annoyances," by David A. Karp.
This book is not-only a great time saver, containing tons of information that will speed-up and improve your O.S., by getting-rid of "Annoyances" and tweaking various aspects of the system, but it will also teach you how to hack the registry. The author gives very detailed scenarios--step-by-step, explaining how to do basic registry hacks, then how to put all those hacks together into a script. From there, you can use your imagination.
This book will make you feel more confident that you will not blow-up your O.S. with some tweaking and it provides information about various applications that do most of the tweaking for you, if goofing with the registry scares you.
I have recommended this book to numerous friends in the IT industry. The site is very helpful, as-well --especially, in a pinch, or on days when there is too much blood in your Caffeine system.
Book Review: Tips and Tricks, for the Windows Geek
Summary: 4 Stars
Windows XP Annoyances takes you under the hook of Windows XP (both Pro and Home) to tweak the operating system in ways you may never have thought possible. The author dives into not only the simple hacks, such as disabling autoplay or speeding up the appearance of menus and changing display properties, but also goes into the Registry to show you tweaks for advanced items such as changing the memory used for I/O operations, and protecting file type associations from changing.Though the book does have a habit of jumping around a bit, and there is no real clear organization of the topics, it is a good reference for those who really want to get into the OS itself and remove some of the "annoying" things (like the cute themes Microsoft has decided to push upon us). It's also a great reference for those who are attempting to setup home networks, or login to their computer remotely -- the author does more than tweak, he explains about these features that might otherwise be overlooked.
Overall, the book is a good buy for the advanced computer user. Beginners and casual users might be better off utilizing less powerful resources as this book can overwhelm if you do not understand the technical details of Windows XP.
Book Review: Great Timesaver
Summary: 5 Stars
I've put off using Windows XP as long as possible. I recently decided that I wanted to use it for the screen shots of my next book since it's in color and the palettes in XP look so much nicer. But it's driving me nuts! I hate the cutesy icons and the dumbed down feel. I have a copy of Windows XP Annoyances sitting right on my desk to help me overcome the many things that really do annoy me. I don't have time to read a tome on using Windows XP, so when I run into something I want to do I just grab this book. As most O'Reilly book, it's easy to use because of its great indexing. I can normally find a topic within seconds, read it, fix it, and get back to work. I've been able to get rid of most of the cutesy stuff but not all of it. This book doesn't just cover the easy things either, it gets into networking and internetworking issues, working with and repairing the registry, lots of troubleshooting topics and scripting and automation.
Every Windows XP owner should also own this book.
Book Review: Not very helpful or organized
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this book with more expectation than what I got when I received it in the mail. I needed to fix the slow bootup of Windows XP and there is hardly anything mentioned in this book about it. The negative tone of voice and his opinon of how to do things in XP do not help the book either. He seems to not like Microsoft products very well so he critizes how they made Windows XP with extra effects, just for marketing purposes when they are quite interesting to me and I'm sure others too. The spelling errors aren't too good either and it shows how little time he put into proof reading it before it was published, thus showing how little he cared. His knowledge is questionable now too since he is careless on the spelling mistakes and grammar errors too. I knew I should have bought the Microsoft Windows XP Inside/Out. I recommend that over this lousy book which is of not much help for people who know a lot about computers.Book Review: The one esential XP manual, heads above the rest
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are an experienced Windows user and are about to move to, or have just moved to XP, this is the one essential book on the subject and probably the only one you will ever need. I have found it invaluable, and heads above Microsoft's "Windows XP Inside Out". Don't let the term annoyances fool you into thinking that this is just a book about problems encountered with XP, it also contains all the information you will need to make XP work the way you want, including:How to avoid some serious problems with installation;
Differences from other Windows versions;
Ways to customize Windows not found in Microsoft's book;
And yes, all the quirks and pitfalls that make XP "annoying" compared to previous systems, and how to work around these annoyances.