Windows 7: The Definitive Guide: The Essential Resource for Professionals and Power Users |  | Author: William R. Stanek
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
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Product Description
This book provides everything you need to manage and maintain Windows 7. You'll learn all of the features and enhancements in complete detail, along with specifics for configuring the operating system to put you in full control. Bestselling author and Windows expert William Stanek doesn't just show you the steps you need to follow, he also tells you how features work, why they work, and how you can customize them to meet your needs. Learn how to squeeze every bit of power out of Windows 7 to take full advantage of its features and programs.
- Set up, customize, and tune Windows 7-Optimize its appearance and performance, install and manage software, customize your hardware, and install printers, scanners, and faxes
- Manage your files and data-Search your computer more efficiently, secure your data, share and collaborate, and get the most out of optional programs such as Windows Live Mail
- Master your digital media-Create media libraries, manage digital pictures and videos, make DVDs, and create movies
- Get connected and start networking-Set up a home or small-office network, conquer Internet Explorer, and master on-the-go networking
- Protect your computer-Keep your family safe while on the Internet, navigate the computer security maze, and configure Windows 7's protection features
- Manage and support Windows 7 systems-Configure user accounts, disks and drives, troubleshoot and handle routine maintenance, and resolve advanced support and recovery issues
- Learn advanced tips & techniques-Manage the Windows boot environment, explore Group Policy, and much more
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 Typical high quality O'Reilly offering; helps with the growing pains of a new OS November 28, 2009
35-year Technology Consumer (Maryland, USA)
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
O'Reilly media has long delivered information technology professionals and regular users definitive resource books for all manner of technology products. They are comprehensive, informative, and presented with orderly structure and excellent readability. "Windows 7: The Definitive Guide" by William F. Stanek sustains this tradition. While the book's subtitle says it's intended for "professionals and power users", any informed technology consumer who wants to improve their relationship with Microsoft's newest operating system can benefit from this. At 900 plus pages, few areas of Windows 7 go unexplored.
Stanek treats his readers as intelligent (rather than as "dummies"), and offers occasional light touches in his text that are amusing without being flippant. He smartly lays down the differences between Windows 7 and both XP and Vista, and provides detailed yet understandable discussions of improvements (or otherwise) in Window's 7 user experience.
There are no serious issues with this book. There may have been a better approach to the arrangement of content. The chapter on installation (and some of the related technical discussions of boot devices and drive partitions) do not appear until page 859. Since many early adopters of Windows 7 will be upgrading from other versions of Windows, this chapter may have been better placed before discussions of the new interface and features. As the table of contents is well arranged the and the indexing thorough, this is a minor quibble.
If you anticipate a long-term relationship with Windows 7, this book will certainly increase the likelihood of it being a harmonious one (or at least leave you with an understanding of where things went south).
Combine this book and David Pogue's Windows 7: The Missing Manual (scheduled for release in January), and you'll posses an outstanding reference library to assist in keeping the upper hand on Windows 7.
A Valuable & Necessary Guide To Customization & Problem Solving In Windows 7 November 19, 2009
Ira Laefsky (Philadelphia, PA)
15 out of 22 found this review helpful
O'Reilly Publishers has recognized the need for at least two types of guides to this important Operating System and one of the major software releases of 2009. While their Up and Running Guide by Wei-Meng Lee is succinct and valuable, those of us who advise others on technology; want to solve perplexing problems involving networking, security, systems customization or unusual hardware environments need a reference of this sort to rapidly and efficiently solve the unique problems involved in making an OS work with an unusual systems configuration or application. Modern operating systems in general consisting of literally millions of lines of software which must interact with a variety of hardware and virtual devices in an amazing variety of applications require an excellent well-indexed and illustrated guide to system customization and knotty problem solving. William R. Stank and O'Reilly have not shrunk from this duty and have provided a clear, comprehensive and well-explained guide to these difficult tasks. While there are oldsters who yearn for the days of Unix System 7 where the entire software structure of an operating system could be comprehended in source code, those were also the days of OS 360 (which required extensive debugging and customization). Clearly modern operating systems which provide a beautiful interaction environment and which must contend with a variety of hardware quirks and application environments require a clear and extensive guide to tuning, customization and debugging. This is an excellent, easily understood and complete reference guide that addresses the needs of a user or consultant who must exercise the advanced features and distract the Demon's (not Daemon's) of Microsoft Windows 7.
--Ira Laefsky
Windows 7 The Definitive Guide December 3, 2009
Howard M. Grodin
9 out of 14 found this review helpful
I have looked at several books in person about Windows 7 and did not find any that I liked. I went to Amazon and looked for the "O'Reilly" publisher type of book because they have the "good and the bad" about any topic. The author William R. Stanek does a great job in explaining the various topics and gets to the point without beating around the bush. I am learning about Windows 7 because I need to support it for work and needed a book that I could learn from. I found this book to be my one source book for all about Windows 7.
Great resource December 27, 2009
Arlene Casey
9 out of 14 found this review helpful
Thanks to this book and Stanek's Windows 7 Admin Pocket Consultant, our Technology and Engineering groups are up and running Windows 7. No small accomplishment I assure you. Our transition was so successful our entire company is moving to Windows 7 starting next month.
The book starts out explaining what you need to know to get started and use Windows 7, the user interface, and teaches some special characteristics and key combinations on Wiindows 7 that are not well known. I really liked how the author drew the distinction between appearance and performance and what lies underneath the graphical user interface. There are helpful sections for the Search functions and menus. The book explains how to use the included applications and utilities, and even delves into all the multimedia apps from the point of view of an experienced expert.
What I liked most about Win 7 Def Guide are the clear and concise explanations. The sames true with all stanek's books. He gets straight to the point, covers each subject in sufficient detail, answering the why's, hows and what fors. His books are the only ones I ever read from start to finish and the reason is he packs in so many tips and extras. His experience with real world systems, as a consultant and as a trainer, make his books the best.
A few friends have bought some other Win 7 books and been sorely disappointed. I don't see how you could be disappointed with this one. This book is immediately valuable for beginners to intermediates to pros and I think it has much to say that you'll find to be valuable and helpful.
Excellent resource May 24, 2010
Y. Slayton (Washington)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Out of all the Windows 7 books I looked at, this was the most clearly written and I'm glad I bought it. As compared to others, it was so much better. To say this book has been such a huge help in my studies would be an understatement. Everything I've wanted to learn about was covered in excellent detail and I've learned so much for this book it has more than paid for itself.
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