With Peter Norton's Maximizing Windows NT Server 4, Premier Edition, you will understand the revamped NT architecture with its subsystems, file system, and networking concepts; design your domain and manage its users without compromising security; exploit available NT services to the fullest: browsing, Remote Access Services, and workgroup post offices; learn to survive in a multi-protocol world; create private virtual networks, using the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol; unleash the power of NT Server while making the most of your existing NetWare environment; connect easily to Macintosh, UNIX, and hosts; track, monitor, manage, and install hardware and software resources with System Management Server; and prepare for disaster with a consistent backup and recovery strategy.

Norton and Houlette give you the answers to the most commonly asked questions when teaching Windows 98 classes. This friendly, hands-on, step-by-step approach to Windows 98 provides the expert advice that meets your needs and covers more about how to improve your performance than most other books you'll find. In addition, this tutorial acts as a cheat sheet to help you focus the technical detail of Windows 98 into meaningful chunks-allowing you to later dive into the Microsoft resource kit and understand it.(With Peter Norton's Maximizing Windows 98, you will ...) o Prepare to run Windows 98 through its installation, rollouts, user interaction, and building of desktops o Learn the architecture-understanding and working with LAN and WAN connections o Integrate outside servers-such as UNIX, Windows NT, and Novell -with your Windows 98 system o Create a web server, web pages, and extended desktops o Install both local and network printers for greater user accessibility o Control the desktops and programs for networked clients and users o Learn the basics of installing both hardware and software into Windows 98 o Manage the computer configuration centrally on your network o Grant remote access and manage Internet access for users o Troubleshoot your Windows 98 system for enhanced security and efficiency o Communicate with outside clients-including those using Mac s o Discover the new software support that is available for Windows 98

With over 1 million copies in print, Peter Norton's Inside the PC, Seventh Edition addresses the needs of all users- novices to business professionals to power-users. Fully rewritten with new highly informative illustrations, this edition takes you far beyond a mere recounting of a PC's insides. Chapters on understanding bits, nybbles, and bytes, clarify the basics. Other chapters detail key enabling technologies and hot new developments, including IDE, ATAPI, SCSI, Firewire, and USB for peripheral connectivity. With Norton, you'll: understand what's inside your PC and why it's needed; find out how people are able to make PCs do the things they do; see what's special about mobile PCs; get an insider's view of how PCs were created; learn how the Internet, Java, and related developments are changing what you expect from your PC; understand the special hardware needs for intense multimedia experiences; and witness the birth of the "conversational" PC that understands and responds to you.


The book explores everything from an overview and explanation of the tools in the Norton Utilities suite, to detailed explanations of each piece. Topics covered include virus control; system diagnostics, monitoring, management, and optimization; disk integrity and data recovery; and Internet performance. The coverage is in the same comfortable, familiar tone known of the Peter Norton series. This book leads the render through the new integrated user interface to launch and use each separate component. The authors teach the reader how to exploit the full features of Utilities, CrashGuard, AntiVirus, WebServices and the bonus pack. The reader will quickly learn to use this suite to enhance and fix their computers whether at home or work.

This one-source reference gives users of all experience levels the ideas and techniques they need to get maximum value out of their Windows 95 upgrade.Shows users how to optimize their operating system performance to meet specific needsProvides advanced tips, optimization techniques, and detailed architectural informationOffers in-depth and detailed insights in lucid, jargon-free personalized language

This work covers the 32 bit, Windows 95 focused version of Delphi. It provides coverage on how to enhance Delphi.

All the topics that Windows NT Workstation users need to know are covered in this book, including the Windows NT interface, architectural details, networking, troubleshooting, security, OLE, and Internet issues.

This guide teaches readers how to use Visual Basic to create powerful applications, without all the technical jargon. It provides a hands-on overview of the entire programming environment exploring advanced topics such as linking to C and Windows directly.

Peter Norton's Guide to Java Programming is a programmer's guide for Web developers. The highly qualified authors dispense their knowledge of Web programming with Java in an easy-to-understand format that will have you programming Java applets in no time.-- Teaches about threads and exceptions, Java tools, the Java API, Applet re-use and more-- Provides the most extensive coverage available on how to enhance Java-- CD-ROM included


Providing a hands-on overview of the possibilities of the programming environment, this work takes an in-depth look into Visual C++ 4.0 Development Suite, Microsoft Foundation Classes 4.0, and the development of applications for the Windows family of operating systems.




This one-source reference gives users of all experience levels the ideas and techniques they need to get maximum value out of their Windows 95 upgrade.Shows users how to optimize their operating system performance to meet specific needsProvides advanced tips, optimization techniques, and detailed architectural informationOffers in-depth and detailed insights in lucid, jargon-free personalized language