Learn how to conquer Windows Vista from the inside out! Written by the authors of the immensely popular Windows Vista Inside Out, this deluxe edition packs even more advanced information, hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds all in concise, fast-answer format. You get 300+ new pages in this comprehensive reference that delivers the up-to-date answers you need to work with Windows Vista. New topics covered in this edition help you zero in on advanced networking, security, and corporate deployment issues as well as advanced features such as speech recognition, Tablet PC support, and Windows Vista certification. You ll also discover how to use new features in Windows Media® Player and Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7. Plus, you ll get tools, eBooks, and more on the companion CD. With INSIDE OUT, you get all muscle and no fluff!

Key Book Benefits:

Includes a new coverage of advanced topics advanced networking, security, corporate deployment issues and high-end features

Award-winning INSIDE OUT format makes hundreds of tips, tricks, and workarounds easy to find and easy to use

Drills into features and functions in Windows Vista, delivering comprehensive detail but no fluff in a single volume

Includes a companion CD with tools, eBooks, and more

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 14 Ratings

Not Worthy of Microsoft - 2009-01-30
Reviewer Rating:
Had I seen this book prior to ordering it, I wouldn't have. The publisher has gone to one color unlike the Inside Out version on WindowsXP. That in its self is not the problem. What is, they used a type font that is a very light serif style and extremely difficult to read for any length of time. It appears as light grey, not black. The whole appearance is that of cheap newspaper copy. I would have returned the book had it not been for the fact that I removed the CD from its jacket bound into the spine of the book at the back thereby invalidating a return. Which brings up my second complaint. The heavy paper cd jacket having been bound into the spine, almost immediately started to split the spine apart. To remedy that I had to take a sharp knife blade and cut it out at the binding. I recently purchased another Microsoft book with the same cd jacket mounting and had to do the same thing. I give the content 2 stars assuming that it is accurate and complete... if only I could read it.

Excellent for Power Users, Corporate Administrators Can Skip - 2009-06-03
Reviewer Rating:
Of the Vista How-To books for general users I've read thus far, if I needed to give a "Your OS And You" publication to a new user, this would be it. Although Vista is now at SP2 and this title only covers the enhancements of SP1, SP2 isn't bringing anything new to the table that would devalue this book.

The presentation of information is primarily walk-thrus, with around one screenshot per page so you can see what they are talking about. With little exception, the information given is all based on Vista's intrinsic components, utilities, and wizards, heavily focused on pointing you to the right menu or applet for the task you're doing. Beyond the obligatory Vista Installation chapters, this task coverage ranges from very easy (changing Windows Media Player's visualizations, setting up email with Windows Live Mail, sharing your photos, etc.) to home-administration (working with the command shell utilities, setting up a home network, monitoring your system, etc.). All of it clearly written, enjoyable, and (as the book itself says) "supremely organized". My only true gripe is that they opted to include information on batch, Windows Script Host, and Powershell scripting - in 4 pages that are not going to help anyone at all and actually make it look confusing enough to put many people off from learning.

The included CD has little more than the book in PDF form along with sample chapters of other books, although it has some information which seems to be geared to corporate administrators looking to deploy Vista.

Makes Clear What Vista Does Not - 2009-07-08
Reviewer Rating:
I am a computer professional and assumed I would understand Vista based on my experience with Win XP and experience with many Microsoft products. I was wrong. Simple things no longer seemed simple, and intuitive was not the word that came to mind when using it.

However, there is a method to Vista's madness -- you just need someone to explain it. For example, to search for a file in Win XP you can right-click on a folder and select Search. In Vista, there are many ways to search, most of them are not as self-defined as in XP. Vista Help, as with many Microsoft products, is not sufficient, at least for me.

You will use this as a reference -- no one would actually want to read through the book chapter by chapter. The writing is clear and diagrams helpful. All in all, another good book in the Inside Out series.

Vista Reference - 2009-06-02
Reviewer Rating:
The book is large and unless you are a professional this books is a great reference for almost any question you might have. I found it too large to be a book you want to read, but skimming through the pages gives you a good idea of what you might have in there when the need arises. Sometimes you may need a background to understand their omissions from a step by step guide on a particular topic.

Good Windows Vista Book - 2009-03-29
Reviewer Rating:
Windows Vista Inside Out Kit: Windows Server 2008 Inside Out and Windows Vista Inside Out is a better value than this book alone. Overall I found this to be a good Vista book. For the advanced details the WS08 book is better since Vista and WS08 are same platform anyways.

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