Using Windows 95: Platinum Edition (Using . (Que))

A complete reference on Windows 95 and its new Internet components, plus two CD-ROMs, for experienced Windows users. Coverage includes using Windows 95 with the Internet and the WWW, customizing, sharing data, networking with Windows 95, and multimedia, with many tips, notes, and cautions. The CD-ROMs offer an evaluation copy of Microsoft's monthly 100,000-page database of products and technologies, and benchmark utilities. This second edition contains information on the OSR2 release of Windows 95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Ron Person and his merry band of Que collaborators have made Special Edition: Using Windows 95 the ideal Windows 95 book for experienced Windows users. This book does yeoman work on all the information you'd expect in a user's book, including instructions on launching programs, managing files, and manipulating windows. But Special Edition: Using Windows 95 excels by giving you detailed information about some of the more exotic--and correspondingly more complicated--features in Windows 95. For example, Person's book gives you networking facts on connecting a computer to a local area network (LAN) and on obscure topics, such as sharing a fax-modem and optimizing Windows 95 to work well with a Novell NetWare network. Fortunately, the thoroughness continues into the dial-up networking information section because you have to configure dial-up networking properly in order to connect to the Internet via a modem.

Special Edition also features extensive problem-solving help. The Troubleshooting sidebars sound like conversations on a technical support line. A typical problem: "I sent a Microsoft Mail message on my workgroup network, but the message wasn't received." The solution: "Make sure that only one Postoffice is installed for your workgroup . . ." This arrangement makes it easy to get quick answers to common hang-ups. Special Edition: Using Windows 95 also comes with a CD-ROM that contains comparative reviews of Windows 95-compatible hardware and software from Windows magazine, the Wintune 95 benchmark program, and 120 shareware programs.