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Title: Expert Guide to Windows 98 by Eric Christiansen, Kristina Shapar, Mark Minasi ISBN: 1-199-00035-3 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 05 June, 1998 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $49.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3.18 (11 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: The Power of an Operating Systems Class Focused on One OS
Comment: This book is a must for understanding how and why Windows 98 works. Remember this book isn't for beginners, so try and buy a beginners guide to Windows 98 along with this one.

One example that this book is not for beginners: Another reviewer quoted what they thought was an error on page 105. Well, that person was mistaken because the book is quite correct. If that reviewer had read up to page 109 he/she might have learned that you first personalize the display settings to ensure that there is something to later edit and restore.

So, the moral of this story is: "finish the book before you pass judgement."

Rating: 2
Summary: Superior technical content that is difficult to follow.
Comment: The author clearly knows his Windows 98; he just can't explain it clearly. This is from page 105: "The first thing I want you to do is to change your display settings... Now we'll back up the Registry... Our aim here is to delete those settings from the Registry and then restore those settings by restoring the original Registry."

Huh? Will we get back the display we had before or after we changed them? Which settings are "those settings"? Which is the "original Registry"?

The reader is instructed to complete the above exercise using SCANREG even though he still has the Registry Editor open from following the author's instructions two pages back.

This book would have benefitted greatly from a few more rewrites before publication. In its current state, a lot of good information is lost because of poor presentation.

Rating: 4
Summary: This book is Still useful with Windows XP
Comment: I bought this book some time ago and I still find it useful for my daily use with Windows XP. Specially the chapters on VBScript and HTML and the information on Networking still are very updated. If you still have Windows 98 because your hardware is not supported under Windows XP, (Some Video Accelerator cards) or you are interested in buying a cheap and still useful book for your Windows XP system, so don't look for more.....