New Riders Publishing Gears Up For Sales Success With New Edition of
Maximizing Windows Best-Seller 

Free Disks Feature 6 MB of Software

(Carmel, Indiana) -- PC Magazine touted Jim Boyce's Maximizing Windows 3 as
"pick of the crop" among Windows books. They said, "This is a reference
that every serious user interested in a deeper understanding of Windows
will want on their bookshelf." Now, New Riders Publishing introduces
Maximizing Windows 3.1, written by Boyce once again.

A quick encounter with Maximizing Windows 3.1, a book and 2-disk set, gives
users vital information about controlling and managing the Windows
environment, integrating non-Windows applications, making Windows work
with hardware, customizing the desktop, and creating macros and Windows
applications. Information about Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) sets this book
apart from its competition.

Dig deeper, and users find that Windows 3.1 TrueType fonts, Object Linking
and Embedding (OLE) capabilities, as well as PEN computing and multimedia
capabilities are all thoroughly discussed in the chapters of Maximizing
Windows 3.1. The text also includes new coverage of VisualBASlC and C
applications for Windows and for the Windows Software Developer's Kil
(SDK).

Maximizing Windows 3.1 has a long shelf-life for users. A step-by-step
tutorial style makes it ideal for Windows beginners with an intermediate
to advanced level of PC understanding. Its reference capabilities lengthen
the lifespan of this book for intermediate and advanced Windows users.

Over 20 great software packages, 6 megabytes in all, are offered free with
Maximizing Windows 3.1. Among that software is a telecommunications
package called MicroLink, an electronic DayTimer called Organize, a
financial management system called WinCheck, as well as a Windows
interface for activating PKWare known as Zip Manager.

For fun, the disks inside Maximizing Windows 3.1 give users Icon
Frightener, causing icons to flee from the mouse; IconMaster, teaching
users how to create and modify icons; and WinRoach, hiding large, black
cockroaches under Windows to later scurry out of hiding.

New Riders Publishing (NRP), a major publisher of computer books for
intermediate to advanced PC users, is an imprint of Prentice Hall Computer
Publishing (PHCP). PHCP is a division of Simon & Schuster, which is a
division of Paramount Communications.

Product Information

Maximizing Windows 3.1 
Jim Boyce 
$39.95 US (book/2-disk set) ISBN: 1-56205-044-3 
800 pp.

New Riders Publishing, 11711 N. College Ave. Carmel, IN 46032
1-800-428-5331

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