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Title: Superior technical content that is difficult to follow.
Review: 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.
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