This book is geared more towards beginners and intermediates, with a few things the more advanced people will enjoy. It explains concepts and practical examples in an easy to understand manner.

Discover the true power and flexibility of your desktop or laptop computer with VMware Workstation. Reduce hardware costs by 50% or more by running multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC. Automate and streamline tasks to save time and improve productivity.

Simply Create, Rip, Burn, Copy, Share, Backup, Play, and Enjoy! Nero 9, the easy-to-use yet powerful multimedia suite, gives you the freedom to create, rip, copy, burn, edit, share, and upload online. Whatever you want – music, video, photo, and data – share and enjoy with family and friends anytime, anywhere. Nero 9 is the next generation of the world’s most trusted integrated digital media and home entertainment software suite. It features new cutting-edge functionality that makes enjoying digital media content simple.

Power Favorites (previously XBEL Bookmark Manager), is a bookmark manager for Windows that helps you organize and synchronize your bookmarks. It takes bookmarks from Internet Explorer, Firefox or Opera, merges them into one file, and automatically synchronizes them between computers. You can use it to detect dead links and duplicates if you have many bookmarks. Each bookmark can be personalized with notes and tags. The fast, integrated search function makes it easy to locate your bookmark. The hot list and recent list folder allow you visit the bookmark you frequently visit quickly. You can also view your bookmarks by tag list and tag clouds, and easily share them or mail them to your friends.

TextCatch is a powerful windows TEXT capture program with many features and options. It allows to capturing text from Windows screen, under the control of another program. It can be used to capture text from another application and then the result can be saved in ASCII format and are usually appended with a .TXT filename extension, not bitmaps or graphics. While most computer programs can make copies of text and paste it, but not all screens or programs have these edit features. TextCatch capture TEXT from screens that do not allow copy and paste! It works with most windows control seen on your computer: Button; ComboBox; Edit; ListBox; StatusBar; RichEdit; Static; ListView; TreeView; Toolbar, Internet Explorer_Server. It can capture all items of folder trees, file lists, status lines, text content of messages and dialog boxes, include visible and invisible items.

DiskMagik is an intelligently designed utility to defragment the hard drive of a Windows PC. Compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista (32 bit), it will help maintain your system in peak operating condition. A MUST-HAVE for all computer users interested in maintaining their computer's performance. Windows XP includes a very basic disk defragmenting utility. But it has its limitations and must be run manually when you can remember to do it.

Advanced PC Tweaker offers the results-oriented solutions for Windows users who can tweak your PC system to the optimal performance through the powerful built-in utilities, allowing you repair problems effectively and completely, clean up drive space, manage backups both Registry and system settings, optimize system and other advanced toolkits like eliminating privacy tracks, administering startup applications, uninstalling unwanted applications and permanently erasing files. What's more, the Submit Problems feature gives you the ability to submit the problems that Advanced PC Tweaker can't solve or the unwanted applications that can't be completely uninstalled from your PC.

UltraMon is a utility for multi-monitor systems, designed to increase productivity and unlock the full potential of multiple monitors. UltraMon adds an additional taskbar for each secondary monitor, and each taskbar only shows tasks from the monitor it is on. This makes managing lots of open applications much easier, and when activating an application, you'll know on which monitor it will appear. Use the UltraMon tabs added to a shortcut's properties to set an application's position or use custom display settings when the application is running. With display profiles, you can quickly change the settings of one or more monitors. You can also create a display profile that gets applied when logging in, especially useful when the computer is used by more than one person, and not everyone wants to use the same display settings.