Windows 98 Annoyances: Taking Charge of Windows 98 Contributor(s): Karp, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1565924177 ISBN-13: 9781565924178 Publisher: O'Reilly Media OUR PRICE: $31.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1998 Annotation: David A. Karp, author of the popular "Windows Annoyances", takes readers step-by-step through the workarounds for the annoyances found in this new Windows 98 operating system. Covers in detail the new Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0. Details Active Desktop and the new Windows Scripting Host. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Computers | Operating Systems - Windows Desktop - Computers | Hardware - Personal Computers - Pcs |
Dewey: 005.446 |
LCCN: 00500273 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.05" W x 9.01" (1.46 lbs) 464 pages |
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Publisher Description: An operating system is a piece of software that should do its work in the background while you do your work in the foreground. In an ideal world, that's precisely how an operating system would work. In our world, however, operating systems constantly get in our way. They annoy us. And few are more annoying than Microsoft Windows 98. Perhaps you're annoyed with the icons that Windows deposits on your desktop and that you never use. Or you're frustrated with the new elements of the Windows 98 interface. Or you consider Windows 98's central feature, its integration of Windows and the Web, to be a massive inconvenience. With Windows 98 Annoyances, you can put an end to these and countless other annoyances. Given the book's format, which presents particular problems and immediately offers one or more solutions, you can quickly identify the Windows 98 features that most annoy you and equally quickly provide a fix for them. In the process, you'll take charge of Windows so that it works the way you want, rather than the way that Microsoft or some other software publisher has configured it. Based on the author's extremely popular Windows Annoyances web site www.annoyances.org, Windows 98 Annoyances provides an authoritative collection of techniques for customizing Windows 98, including:
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