Ask Slashdot: Good Technical Guide To Windows 10?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @05:01AM from the well-if-you-must-know dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Back 'in the day' you could easily find books on NT, Windows 2000, or Slackware that went into painstaking detail about every functional aspect of the operating system (think Slackware Unleashed). They covered the interplay between BIOS, boot sector, crash dumps, every command-line option, etc. Past about Win 2000 I fell way behind focusing on finishing my EE degree. Now when faced with a complex issue, I just end up at Google, but would prefer a good comprehensive book on recent Win8/Win10 architectures. Any suggestions? Are these books all but limited to course-prep now?

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Re:compsci major by __aaclcg7560 · 2016-02-23 06:01 · Score: 5, Interesting

I majored in comp sci. I don't read these kinds of books.
I was working on the Google help desk in 2008 when I had to walk a recent computer science graduate through the process of turning on his PC. He was shocked — shocked! — that a cubicle farm wasn't like a computer lab and no one was standing around to turn on his computer. I'm always surprised by how many computer scientists don't know how to operate PC hardware. They probably don't read those kinds of books.