Practical Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional - Softcover

Bott, Ed

9780789721242: Practical Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789721244 ISBN 13: 9780789721242

Publisher: Que Pub, 2000

Practical Windows 2000 Professional provides coverage for the Windows 2000 Professional user who is impatient, business-focused, and goal-oriented, and does not want to read extraneous material. Topics covered in this title include Customizing the Windows 2000 Desktop, Taskbar, and Start menu, installing and uninstalling programs, sharing files, folders, and printers over a network, preventing unauthorized access to sensitive data, connecting to the Internet and browsing the Web, the secrets of successful Web searches, foolproof Internet security settings, using Windows 2000 on a notebook, troubleshooting hardware problems, recovering from data disasters, and much more.

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Review:

Aimed at people who are familiar with Windows 98, Practical Microsoft Windows 2000 shows what's new in Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional in its role as a desktop (as opposed to a server) operating system. With an apt combination of explanatory text, stepped procedures, and labeled illustrations, this book shows how to implement scores of Windows 2000 improvements. Readers find out, for example, how to uninstall programs safely, organize files and view them with Explorer, customize the Windows interface, and set up a new hard disk. They also find out how to deal with the infamous Blue Screen of Death, in both the immediate (get it working) and long-term (identify and solve the underlying problem) senses. It's rather easy to locate the material you need via the index, though you might have to check a couple of places before you find coverage of the specific situation that interests you.

Author Ed Bott, a respected editor at PC Computing magazine, knows his subject intimately and shares his knowledge well. He particularly emphasizes Windows 2000 within corporate computing environments, in which users' computers can be centrally administered to various extents. Bott frequently points out features that may work differently if administrators have invoked certain of their special capabilities, and offers suggestions on how to get information (and maybe extra privileges) from your organization's information systems experts. For this reason, this book is something of a guerrilla guide to being a cubicle-based power user. --David Wall

Topics covered: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional for intermediate-level and power users. Exemplary attention goes to the restrictions a centrally managed computer imposes on the user. The author also covers software installation, printing, hardware management, network resource sharing, and Internet connectivity. Internet coverage includes connection sharing and client programs.

About the Author:

With two monthly columns and frequent cover stories on Microsoft Windows and other topics, Ed Bott is one of the most recognized voices in the computing world. Ed is Senior Contributing Editor for PC Computing, a 1999 National Magazine Award winning monthly magazine with a circulation of more than 1 million. He is the author of a long list of Que books covering Microsoft Windows and Office, including Special Edition Using Microsoft Office 2000, Using Windows NT Workstation 4, Special Edition Using Windows 98 and Platinum Edition Using Windows 98 (co-author with Ron Person), and two editions of Using Windows 95; in all, he has reached more than 650,000 Windows and Office users through his unique combination of expert knowledge and friendly, down-to-earth style. He's also an award-winning computer journalist with more than a decade of experience at top magazines like PC Computing and PC World.

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