Lets not forget my alltime favorite Win internals book:

"Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX"

For example, how better to describe how DLLs work together than describing a bunch of Gnomes standing on top of Matty the Mat (who represents a programs workspace in this example). The Gnomes then form a human pyramid and link hands to represent linked DLLs.

Made the lightbulb click on in my head.

PF


>I've got a nuber of Que books covering the registry under differing flavors, which are now all out-of-date; unfortunately, much of the interesting stuff that might prevent having to reinstall is version-specific. The registry manipulation stuff is very basic and common to all of the Win32 platforms (with notable exceptions being security issues for registry access under WinNT and Win2K; the parameters nd calls are the same for Win9x and the more secure Win32 platforms; Win9x ignores some of the parameters, making life a bit easier but also making life a bit more danger-prone.) There are a series of books "Inside the fill-in-the-Win32-flavor Registry" which are good, but they're basically two or three chapters on registry basics and tools, followed by voluminous lists of registry keys and their meanings which are subject to change seemingly at whim, and which don't cover any applications. I'd recommend the Resource Kits for the various operating systems.