Microsoft Office: I got my biggest chuckle from Bass's inclusion of an illustration showing the Microsoft Clippy offering help with writing a suicide note, but my favorite tip in this section was a step-by-step method to automate numbered lists in Microsoft Word. If you work with numbered sequences, this tip alone is worth the price of the book!
David Deckert's humorous take on Clippy's demise.
Windows Explorer: Pining for Norton Commander? The best tip in this section, in my opinion, is how to completely dump Windows Explorer as your file-management interface. Bass recommends Novatix ExplorerPlus—you can try it out for free, then it costs only $30 to download the full version. Another tip in this section shows you how to disconnect the HTML of a saved browser page from its linked contents—this one is great if you habitually save "sample" source pages, but don't want to load up your hard drive with the other contents. (If you don't disconnect them, when you delete the contents folder, the HTML page is also deleted.)
Music, Video and CD: There are so many really cool fixes and tips in this section that it's hard to pick a single favorite. How about a $40 AudioBug that lets you "narrowcast" your MP3 files to your car's FM radio? Other utilities let you capture streaming audio and video, and save them to files. And for CDs, my favorite is the $30 GameDrive utility that moves compressed CD images to the hard drive—now you can play Myst IV without swapping CDs!
Hardware: Even with such essential guides as Degunking Your PC available, it's still useful to have specific fixes for those hardware woes. My favorite: "percussive maintenance" (a whack upside the CRT) to fix an annoying high-pitched whine from an older monitor—and a software fix as well: just change the refresh rate. Even better, Bass slyly reminds us, "This may be the best excuse yet to buy that new LCD panel you've had your eye on."
Don't just take my word for it—check it out for yourself with O'Reilly's Chapter One sample. This is another gold-medal entry for your home PC bookshelf.
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