Offers advice for PC users on maintaining, upgrading, and troubleshooting. This book gives instruction on a wide range of entertainment upgrades - ways to enhance your enjoyment of music, photo, movies, and more. Its coverage includes: preventing hardware disasters; upgrading memory; replacing power supplies; and, solving data backup challenges.

Windows XP latest version incorporates the updates and new features of Service Pack 2, boasting increased security for Windows XP and Internet Explorer, updates for wireless networking with new wireless technology features, the new Windows Media Player 10, and new versions of Windows Messenger and MSN Messenger.

Includes coverage of general networking concepts and basic instruction on Windows Server 2008 installation and management including active directory, DNS, Windows storage, and TCP/IP and IPv4 networking basics. This book explains what servers do, how basic networking works, and the fundamentals of the under-the-hood technologies.

Gives an inside look at Windows Vista Security for Systems Administrators. This book helps you with tasks such as: work through Vista surprises, such as logging on as Administrator and how to re-enable Run; discover how virtualization works-and where it doesn't; protect laptops to the max with the innovative BitLocker feature; and more.

Providing information on Windows .NET Server 2003, this book states that it is a multipurpose operating system capable of handling a diverse set of server roles. It includes file and print management, web application services, remote access and virtual private networking, and streaming media.

Helps to learn to install, configure, run, and troubleshoot the professional versions of Vista.

Covers the information on SP1 and R2. This title includes the critical security updates to R2's management/administration tools. It also covers topics on: getting and installing SP1; hiding folders from prying eyes with ABE; de-worming Windows[registered] with Data Execution Prevention (DEP); and, solving SP1/R2 incompatibilities.

Windows administrators need to be familiar with Linux and understand the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two operating systems. Written for the experienced Windows administrator, this book provides information on integrating Linux and Windows.

A guide to Windows Server 2008 R2. It covers Windows storage concepts and skills, Windows Server 2008 IP, WINS, NetBIOS, LMHosts, DNS, creating the simple Active Directory, and creating and managing user accounts. It explains Group Policy in Active Directory; files, folders and shares; Sysvol, old and new; and, sharing printers on the network.