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for several Web sites In her spare time, Joli enjoys gardening, golfing, and traveling About the Authors The author of over 20 books, Paul Thurrott is a technology analyst for Windows IT Pro and the majordomo of the SuperSite for Windows (www.winsupersite.com) He writes a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE (www.windowsitpro.com/email), a daily Windows news and information e-mail newsletter called “WinInfo Daily News” (www wininformant.com), and a monthly column called “Need to Know” in Windows IT Pro Magazine He also blogs daily via the SuperSite Blog (community.winsupersite.com/ blogs/paul ), posts regularly on Twitter (www.twitter.com/thurrott ), and appears weekly in the highly rated and hugely popular Windows Weekly podcast with Leo Laporte (www.twit.tv/ww) Rafael Rivera is a software developer for a VAR 500 company, Telos Corporation, where he works on mission critical systems He is a Certified Reverse Engineering Analyst (CREA) and takes Windows apart on his blog Within 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