I purchase a lot of books mail order and recently had received an announcement for Windows XP Command Line by Carolyn Gillay and Bette Peat. The advertisement said it was for experienced users and covered advanced features of Windows XP command lines, network troubleshooting, advanced recovery etc..

Anyway I had never been steered wrong by this company before and I ordered the book. The book came, 908 pages, impressive size. I started to browse through the book and immediately realized that this is not what was advertised. This book is remedial dos, don't waste your money.

For example at page 19 I learn how to insert a floppy disk into my Win XP computer in painstaking detail.

To insert a 3 1/2 inch disk properly into the disk drive, place your thumb on the label with the metal shutter facing away from you and toward the floppy disk drive (see figure 1.3). On some computers the floppy disk drive is installed vertically. To determine which way to insert the disk it is helpful to know that the side of the disk with the circular metal disk is the bottom of the disk. The bottom of the disk always faces the bottom of the drive. Slip the disk into the slot and gently push the disk into the drive until you hear it click and/or feel it snap into place. When the disk is properly in place, the small rectangular button on the floppy dive will pop out.
By the time I get to page 65 I learn what to do with that floppy I just learned to put into my Windows XP computer!

Key in the following: C:\> A: [enter]

What's Happening? By simply keying in a letter followed by a colon, you are telling the system that you want to change your work area to that designated drive. Thus, when you keyed in A:, you changed the work area from the hard disk , Drive C, to the floppy disk in Drive A. You have now made A: the default drive.
How can they advertise that this book is for experienced users? I would hate to see what these people would write for inexperienced users.