Praise for The Mother of All Windows Books:

"There aren't many good Windows® books, but Woody Leonhard and Barry Simon's CD-MOM: The Mother of All Windows Books, would have stood out even in a field of stellar entries. Witty, idiosyncratic, sometimes cranky, and often corny, the book captures the feeling of a Windows expert sitting at your elbow, chatting away, listening to your complaints, agreeing, offering solutions."
--Jim Seymour, PC Magazine

"An amazingly complete (and completely irreverent) look at everything involved with Windows."
-- Ed Bott, PC Computing

"This book is for anyone who wants to explore Windows many secrets and exploit its hidden talents....A good investment for the curious and technically motivated Windows user."
--Larry Magid on Prodigy

Mom is back, crankier than ever, and she and her motley cast of highly irreverent icons have got the goods on everything you need to know about Windows 95 after you push the Start button. You'll get "motherly" advice, delivered in Mom's own caustic-yet-caring style, on everything from setting up Windows 95 to tuning it and making it work the way you want it to. The Mother of All Windows 95 Books brings you insider info on all Windows 95 components (everything from fonts to multimedia), the new desktop, the extremely mysterious (and virtually undocumented!) Windows Registry, and more.

The Mother of All Windows 95 Books also delivers the mother of all Windows 95 software collections--full commercial programs, working excerpts from the hottest products, shareware, freeware, and more! The all-new CD-ROM includes:

Norton Utilities' System Information(TM) program, which provides detailed operating statistics for every part of your Windows 95 system.

20 all-new, hand-picked Bitstreamreg. fonts.

The entire Official Airline Guide(TM).

The Pro Phone(TM) Windows 95 "Free Phone(TM)" 800-number directory--about 200,000 up-to-date entries covering every toll-free number in the USA.

The Phone Disk collection of 200,000 phone numbers for all computer dealers, manufacturers, software vendors--virtually every computer-related business in the USA!

Microsoft's latest and greatest for Windows 95: the Windows Driver Library (more than 10 MB of new, improved drivers, covering hundreds of hardware products); the infamous Hardware Compatibility List; the User Interface Guide (which costs $39 in paperback); and the new, greatly improved Microsoftreg. Word Viewer.

Full working models (not little slide shows, but get-your-hands-dirty working segments) of some of the most popular Win95 multimedia titles: Arcade America[[sterling]](TM) from 7th Levelreg. (including a page from Monty Python's Compleat Waste of Time(TM)); Freddi Fish(TM) and Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo(TM) from Humongousreg.; Sound Forge(TM); the simulation game Freshwater Fish(TM) from AnimaTek(TM); and others.

The full Public (software) Library(TM) collection of shareware and freeware Windows utilities--far and away the largest, most complete set of Windows 95 utilities ever compiled.

A special collection of bonus shareware and freeware, including Batutil for controlling Windows programs from .BAT files; WS_IRC, an Internet Relay Chat program; MicroAngelo(TM), the most sophisticated icon handler yet; and much more.

The Windows 95 Supplemental Disk Library. If you bought Win95 on diskette, and you've been wondering what you're missing, this is the whole enchilada: QuickView; Character Map; Mouse Pointers; CD Player; Windows Online User's Guide; Clipbook; Chat; the old DOS programs that may have been deleted from your disk when you installed Win95; Microsoft Diagnostics (MSD); the Win95 logo wallpaper; Scripting for Dial-Up Networking; System Policy Editor; too much more to list.

The MOM Fights Back! collection of sign-up kits for the three most popular online services: America Onlinereg., CompuServereg., and Prodigyreg.. Windows 95 shipped with a built-in sign-up kit for Microsoft Network. Now you can see how the rest of the world communicates.

PLUS over 4,500 icons, more than 100 animated cursors, 100 static cursors, and MUCH, MUCH MORE!

System Requirements:

Windows 95 and a CD-ROM drive

Woody Leonhard is a contributing editor at PC Computing, author of The Underground Guide to Telecommuting and The Underground Guide to Word for Windows, coauthor of The Hacker's Guide to Word for Windows and PC MOM: The Mother of All PC Books, and a Tibetan human rights activist.

Barry Simon is a contributing editor at PC Magazine and coauthor of Methods of Modern Mathematical Physics (with Michael Reed) and PC MOM: The Mother of All PC Books.