Using the Windows 98 Registry (Using...)

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Summary: Great for mysified Mac users
Review: As someone with a background in the comparatively 'easier' (and more stable) Mac world, I found this book, more than any other Windows 98 guidebooks, to be the most useful in terms of explaining why my Wintel product was failing. The book is exceptionally well-designed. Not only is the materially organized in a useful fashion, the page-layout makes things easy to read. The author's writing style is crisp and engaging, and that which he is trying to teach is genuinely useful. Indeed, _Using the Windows 98 Registry_ is so straightforward in its approach, I felt like I was reading a tech manual for a Macintosh product. I would second another reviewers' comments, though, that future editions could benefit from the inclusion of case studies.

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Summary: Registry Power Tools makes it easy to configure Windows 98
Review: I co-authored part of this book and developed the Power Tools applet.

This applet runs in your Control Panel and makes it easy to change the behavior and look of your Windows 98 system.

System administrators will find it useful when setting up new systems.

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Summary: A serious book about Win98 Registry
Review: I purchased the book to understand how Windows 98 registry really works. I had sometimes to correct corrupt registry entries arising from my heavy user actions and this may be very scary.

Hunneycutt's book was the right choice. This is a book written by an expert with high pedagogic skills. I found not only the whys of registry but a number of tips that helped resolving my issues. Reading this book felt me more in control of the machine.

Also useful are some of the freeware and shareware described in the book, like regmon. To be frank, however, I didn't find much use for the featured software that come with the book's CD.

The book offered a lot more than my immediate needs requested. For instance, as a programmer I found it may be a powerful reference tool for those needing to write code accessing the registry.

As a hint for the next edition I suggest increasing anedotical contents for troubleshooting application entries and other heavy user issues.

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Summary: Exceptionally useful, well-written, and easy to use
Review: One of the most useful and well-written books I've come across in a long time. Don't be mislead by the title. Yes, the book does clearly explain how to use the registry but, more important, it explains how to solve Windows problems. If you support Windows users, you must have this book. Good information about: - Understanding the registry structure - Using TweakUI to change registry settings - How to change the registry programmatically using Visual Basic. The index is excellent - it takes you right to the information you need.

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Summary: The one registry book that you must absolutely have!
Review: This book has tons of useful information and goes into detail in the areas where you need it to. Lots of good desktop edits, good CD, and very easy to read & follow.

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Summary: Excellent choice for mastering the Win98 Registry!
Review: This book has tons of useful information and goes into detail in the areas where you need it to. Lots of good desktop edits, good CD, and very easy to read & follow.

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Summary: Good book, but not enough focus on practicality.
Review: This book is excellent for understanding the "theory" of the Win 98 registry, but I have not found it very useful for guidance in the practical aspects of actually tweaking registry settings. It usually contains enough information about a particular registry section to know if it is not worth editing, but it often does not give enough coverage to important keys. It would definitely benefit a lot from input by a person who commonly solves problems using the registry. That said, I have sometimes found it helpful when trying to find which key contains a given piece of info that I am interested in tweaking.

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Summary: Good book, but not enough focus on practicality.
Review: This book is excellent for understanding the "theory" of the Win 98 registry, but I have not found it very useful for guidance in the practical aspects of actually tweaking registry settings. It usually contains enough information about a particular registry section to know if it is not worth editing, but it often does not give enough coverage to important keys. It would definitely benefit a lot from input by a person who commonly solves problems using the registry. That said, I have sometimes found it helpful when trying to find which key contains a given piece of info that I am interested in tweaking.

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Summary: The one registry book that you must absolutely have!
Review: This book is one of the best written registry books that I have read. It explains all the hard to find details that most other books barely touch on. It's the only registry book that I recommend!

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Summary: I thought I knew a lot about the Registry...
Review: Until I read this book! Jerry Honeycutt has done a masterful job of dissecting the Registry and explaining what it is piece by piece and how you can change it to make your system better, faster, stronger. There's even information for system administrators for remotely editing workstation Registries. The Powertools software on the CD it comes with makes a nice companion to Tweak UI, although it's not robust enough to replace it. This is easily the best Registry book that's ever been on the market; I'll never read Woram's book again!