Maran Illustrated Windows XP 101 Hot Tips (Maran Illustrated)

Produced by the award-winning maranGraphics Group, `Maran Illustrated Guide to Windows XP ? 101` is a valuable resource for all readers, especially those who are looking to further enhance their XP experience. Clear, step-by-step instructions walk the reader through each operation from beginning to end. Comprehensive topic introductions and useful tips provide additional information and advice to enhance the readers? Windows XP experience and help meet their individual needs. `Maran Illustrated Guide to Windows XP ?101` is packed with information for readers who are familiar with Windows XP and are looking to get the most out of using the operating system. Readers will find this book an excellent guide to help them learn about cool tricks and hot tips, by way of the easy-to-use maranGraphics format.

User review
How to do Things I Never Thought About Before
I like 'hot tip' books. Every time I pick up one, I find something that I find useful that I never knew about before.

When I first picked up this book and started thumbing through it I found Hot Tip #49. It is named `Quickly shut down Windows with a souble-click.` How come I didn't know this before? It is certainly something that I can use. I find clicking Start (Ignoring that Start shouldn't mean Stop), then clicking on Turn Off Computer, and then having to confirm that yes, this is really what I want to do to be a drag.

This tip, like all the others in the book uses the famous Maran full-color illustrated approach to tell how to do it. I did it on my computer, and everything looked exactly like their illustrations, it took about a minute, and now there's a shortcut named ShutDown on my desktop.

There are a hundred and one such hot tips in this book. Many, like `Customize the Mouse for Left-Handed Users,` don't interest me.

All in all, I set up a handful of things following their directions, and there is another handful that I'm thinking about. What more can you expect out of a little, inexpensive book like this one?

User review
Didn't live up to expectations
It isn't `a valuable resource for all readers`, but might be to those who don't mind cheesy graphics and those who want to see what they could've learned from the Windows XP help menu. I thought the tips would enhance my knowledge of XP beyond what I already know, but was very disappointed. There are other more informative `illustrated` XP guides out there.