The Mother of All Windows 98 Books
by: Woody Leonhard, Barry Simon
From the Back Cover
In this irreverent sequel to the bestselling The Mother of All Windows 95 Books, the irascible and irrepressible Mom and her loyal sidekicks return to give you the inside track on Windows 98. With a wacky sense of humor and in-depth insider knowledge, The Mother of All Windows 98 Books (a.k.a. MOM98) goes right to the heart of what you need to know to become a Win98 power user. MOM98 illustrates how, and more importantly, why things work (or don't work) enabling even novices to quickly become wizards with Win98.
Written in plain language (so even your Mom can understand it) MOM98 is packed with insight, unique tips, and shortcuts so you can customize and fine-tune Win98 to get the maximum benefit of this powerful new operating system.
MOM98 isn't just another Win98 book, no way, Mom serves up a hearty helping of features and coverage for your benefit. Here's some samples of Mom's work:
- coverage is based entirely on the final "shrink-wrapped" version of Windows 98, no beta stuff in here
- describes how Windows 98 really works, not how it's supposed to work includes a Fast Track chapter to get experienced Windows 95 users up-to- speed rapidly
- reveals what works, what doesn't, and how to work around the obstacles (this coverage is worth the price of the book alone!)
- explains all of Windows 98's snazziest features: the Update Manager, Multilink Channel Aggregation, Virtual Private Networking, FAT32, Win32 Driver Model, DirectX 5.0, The Tune-Up Wizard, HTML Help, VBScript, control panel applets, and more
- covers the mysterious Windows 98 Registry in depth
"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
"[A]n exceptional value...written in a style that is at once irreverent, witty and, well, strange." - Brit Hume and T.R. Reid, The Washington Post