Other information about the book: author - David A. Karp
ISBN - 0-596-00416-8

The O'Reilly books on various computer-related topics are illustrated on the
front cover with a picture of an animal, some relatively common, some
exotic, depending on your perspective, I guess. How they picked the animals
is anybody's guess. The animal on the cover of Windows XP Annoyances is the
Surinam Toad, aka Pipa Pipa, that lives its entire life cycle in the muddy
rivers of South America.

"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message
...
Denny Meeker wrote...

Go to your local computer book shop and look for "Windows
XP Annoyances", published by O'Reilly. There are MANY
suggestions (and implemention instructions) for taming XP.

Thanks for the suggestion.


And, the toad on the cover is way cool.

I assume this is a reference to Shakespeare. The only O'Reilly animal
reference
I got without help was the flying squirrel on their Palm Pilot books.


XP is no doubt superior in some ways to 2000 Pro, but I don't like the
interface. It's much, much too intrusive. It constantly assumes it
knows
what you're doing and interferes, or it prompts you with a bunch of
options, even when you're doing what you want to do.