Product Description

This hands-on, results-oriented title lets you take control of Windows 98 and squeeze every possible bit of performance from Windows 98. You learn how the registry works. You get the information you need to back up, edit and repair your registry. Plus you're shown the relationships between the registry and your PC so you can more effectively manage your system. You'll also find extensive customization and personalization information as well as dozens of ways to make your system faster and more responsive to your particular application's needs. Administrators will find information on a variety of tools and techniques to easily manage Windows 98 client computers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1312369 in Books
• Published on: 1998-12-22
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Amazon.com Review
Windows 98 can't bang two rocks together without consulting the Registry, and Windows 98 Registry Handbook documents the Registry very well. If you suspect there's a way to accomplish something in Windows 98, take a look at this book. In addition to providing information about the Registry itself, the book features lengthy discussions about software tools for working with the Registry, especially by using Norton Registry Editor, TweakUI, and the standard Microsoft editor.

Author Jerry Honeycutt carefully documents the contents of the Registry. He explains what each of the Registry's six hives contains, digging down through the subsidiary branches to provide lists of hundreds of entries. His commentary is sharp too--he explains what many of the entries mean and details how to modify them to achieve various results.

Windows 98 Registry Handbook also provides a collection of Registry recipes. Honeycutt reveals how to modify the order in which the contents of the Start menu appear. He tells how to disable the Run and Find commands in the Start menu too--a real attraction for corporate administrators. Honeycutt also reveals how you can make Windows 98 automatically flush its list of recently-used documents each time it starts up. He even shows enterprising users how to get around the roadblocks that crop up when a system administrator has tried to make it difficult to edit the Registry. The list goes on. --David Wall

From the Back Cover
This hands-on, results-oriented title lets you take control of Windows 98 and squeeze every possible bit of performance from Windows 98. You learn how the registry works. You get the information you need to back up, edit and repair your registry. Plus you're shown the relationships between the registry and your PC so you can more effectively manage your system. You'll also find extensive customization and personalization information as well as dozens of ways to make your system faster and more responsive to your particular application's needs. Administrators will find information on a variety of tools and techniques to easily manage Windows 98 client computers.

About the Author
Jerry Honeycutt provides business-oriented technical leadership to the Internet community and software development industry. He has served companies such as The Travelers, IBM, Nielsen North America, IRM, Howard Systems International, and NCR. Jerry's writing style makes it easy for users to take advantage of his vast, practical, hands-on knowledge of Windows and business computing. Jerry has written Using the Windows 98 Registry, Windows 95 and NT 4.0 Registry and Customization Handbook, and SE Using the Windows 95 Registry, among others.

Customer Reviews

You won't find a better registry book than this.
This book covers the Windows Registry in superb detail. I recommend it to anyone desiring to understand how Windows uses the Registry. It will teach you how you can use the Registry to tweak the Windows user interface. Editing the Registry is safe as long as you follow the safety guidelines set forth in the early chapters of this book. Don't buy the Dummies book (or any other Dummies book for that matter) unless you are a dummy. The typical power user needs something more technical. This is the book for him.

SECOND BEST REFERENCE BOOK ON REGISTRY
This book has the same strengths and weaknesses of all reference books on Windows 98. Each provides useful knowledge but none are able to cover every major procedure, issue, or problem in Windows 98. Perhaps, that is the underlining problem with Windows; too many topics to cover in one book.

I am not fond of Windows95/98/ME but there is nothing on the market that is close to it, unless you decide to join the other eight users of Apple computers.

This book provides good useful information but it does not give enough specific instructions about tweaking the registry. This book finishes a close second to "Win 98 Registry; Little Black Book" which is loaded with that type of information. I use both books and consider both very valuable reference materials.

If you plan to work in the registry, you will need this book.

Easily the best book of its kind
I've read a lot of other registry books that just tell you how to do frivolous things like change the Start Menu or Control Panel icons, and I've seen even more books that give advice that doesn't work. This book has neither of those problems. It is full of useful information from front to back, and there is no fluff to slow it down. If you are a network administrator like me, you'll learn lots of great ways to remotely customize your workstations (along with Windows Scripting Host, this book has changed the way I do things). If you just want to hack your machine to make it better, this is also the best book for you.