Getting this book out was a game of hurry up and wait. After the RTM code was made available in early November, we took a full month to finish the manuscript, did the back-and-forth with our crack production team to get pages laid out and proofread and off to the printers before New Year’s Eve, and had the finished product on bookstore shelves right around the time Windows Vista was released for retail sale on January 30. And then we all took a deep breath and started looking at all the things we had to postpone or neglect while we concentrated on this project.
Anyway, I just returned to this site for the first time in months and discovered that a dozen comments had been incorrectly held for moderation. I’ve approved them all and have changed the site so that comments will be posted instantly and we’ll get faster notice when a comment gets held up in the future.
We’ve also begun looking in the newsgroups for posts containing questions or feedback we can incorporate into the Deluxe Edition, which is due for release in early 2008. If you have questions or comments, post them right here. We’ll get to them as quickly as we can.
Meanwhile, you can click the Errata link in the header of this page to see a list of errors we’ve identified so far.
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I Started to keep a log of errors but it soon became overwhelming. Not with factual errors, but with simple directional errors due to the final Vista being different than the one used tow rite the book. Many directions as to where certain features are located are just wrong. For instance many directions for using Control Panel point to menu items that either no longer exist or are still there under different names. The features can be found, but one of the reasons to get a book like this is to avoid having to muck about looking for something you know must be there, Somewhere. Further checking the knowledge Base as directed for book updates returns nothing. This update feature was one of the reasons I purchased this book, but so far it is non- existent.
Please understand that the book is of great help. It is just that if properly updated as promised, it would be so much easier to do the change over to Vista.
G, that’s surprising to hear. We actually delayed publication by a full month so we could write and fact-check against the final code. If you have any examples you can send of where our instructions are in error, please send them our way. We’ll correct anything you send us.
As for the Knowledge Base updates, we’re looking into that. Ideally, that article should lead you to this site, where we can be immediately responsive rather than having to go through a bureaucracy to get stuff posted.
Not exactly a correction but I didn’t know where else to put it.
After reading about all the new security measures in Vista, the use of standard accounts, the UAC, and whatnot, I was boggled to read on page 155 that it’s possible for a program to just bypass all that and install itself anyway. So…what’s the point of all the security measures? Seems to me the script kiddies are just going to take a look at how SyncToy installs and design their trojans and such to do the same thing.
Or am I missing something?
Liked the book, BTW, very useful, especially the searchable ebook. I have it right on my desktop and refer to it regularly.
I noticed info on BitLocker is missing, however. There isn’t even a web pointer to get any. I realize it is a specialist program, but still, it’s part of Vista….
Page 861, fifth line from bottom: “… are listed at HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\BackupRestore\KeysNotToRestore”
Correct path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\KeysNotToRestore
(of course you could read the same data on ControlSet001 but you should check first in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Select\Current)
Ciao
Roberto.
On the bottom of page 428 it reads:
As an alternative to the Local Security Policy console, you can set most of these policies using the Net Accounts command. (For users of the Home Basic or Home Premium edition, this is the only option.) IN Table 11-1, the appropriate switch to set a policy is shown next to the policy name as it appears in Local Security Policy. For example, to set the maximum password age to 21 days, type net accounts /maxpwage:21 at a command prompt.
The problem with this is even though I am the administrator, the message “System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied.” appears and no change results.
On page xxvii, under the “What’s on the CD” paragraph, third bullet from the top, the word “offi cial” has an unnecessary space in it.
Now that the Deluxe Edition is out, can you identify which book edition each individual errata listing pertains to?
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