“…In showing how to integrate applications with the Windows shell by building shell extensions, author J.P. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Finding and Organizing Files; Understanding Libraries; Visualization and Organization: How to Make the Windows Shell Work for You; Custom Libraries and Saved Searches; Summary; Chapter 6: Personalizing and Configuring Windows 7; The Windows 7 User Interface; Making It Faster: Performance Tweaks; Summary…”

“…Its functionality extends to the support for tablet PCs and other forms of input device, and it provides a more modern imaging and printing pipeline, accessibility and UI automation infrastructure, data-driven user interfaces and visualization, and integration points for weaving the application experience into the Windows shell. This book shows you how WPF really works. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Advanced Windows 8 Setup Configurations; Summary; Chapter 3: Metro: The New User Experience; Times They Are A-Changin': The New Windows Shell; Lock Screen: A New Way to Sign In…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Keeping up with security news -- Differences between physical, virtual, and cloud setups -- Introducing VirtualBox and Cygwin -- Installing a virtual machine in VirtualBox -- Installing the EPEL repository on the CentOS 7 virtual machine -- Installing the EPEL repository on the AlmaLinux 8/9 virtual machines -- Configuring a network for VirtualBox virtual machines -- Creating a virtual machine snapshot with VirtualBox -- Using Cygwin to connect to your virtual machines -- Installing Cygwin on your Windows host -- Using the Windows 10 SSH client to interface with Linux virtual machines -- Using the Windows 11 SSH client to interface with Linux virtual machines -- Cygwin versus the Windows shell -- Keeping the Linux systems updated -- Updating Debian-based systems -- Configuring auto updates for Ubuntu -- Updating Red Hat 7-based systems -- Updating Red Hat 8/9-based systems -- Managing updates in an enterprise -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Answers -- Chapter 2: Securing Administrative User Accounts -- The dangers of logging in as the root user -- The advantages of using sudo -- Setting up sudo privileges for full administrative users -- Adding users to a predefined admin group -- Creating an entry in the sudo policy file -- Setting up sudo for users with only certain delegated privileges -- Hands-on lab for assigning limited sudo privileges -- Advanced tips and tricks for using sudo -- The sudo timer -- View your sudo privileges -- Hands-on lab for disabling the sudo timer -- Preventing users from having root shell access -- Preventing users from using shell escapes…”

“…WPF's functionality extends to support for tablet PCs and other forms of input devices, and provides a more modern imaging and printing pipeline, accessibility and user interface automation infrastructure, data–driven user interface and visualization, as well as the integration points for weaving the application experience into the Windows shell…”