Synopses & Reviews
Maintaining a PC is important, and troubleshooting a PC can be a challenge. Dan Gookin is great at explaining how to handle common PC problems, and he’s provided a complete, plain-English manual in
Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies.Liberally laced with Dan’s famous humor and clear instructions, Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies is divided into six minibooks covering hardware, software, laptops, Internet, networking, and maintenance. Each one gives you some background on what causes common problems, to help you understand what’s wrong as well as how to fix it. You’ll learn to:
- Troubleshoot both Windows XP and Vista
- Solve e-mail and Web woes, makes friends with ActiveX, and protect your system from evil software and viruses
- Resolve router problems, reset the modem, delve into IP addresses, and find the elusive wireless network
- Investigate startup issues, battery quirks, and power problems
- Travel safely and efficiently with your laptop
- Perform regular maintenance and keep good backups
- Solve problems with disks and printers
- Find missing files, successfully restore files if something major goes wrong, and pep up your PC
The bonus DVD walks you through some of the complex steps discussed in the book and demonstrates tasks like removing a hard drive. There’s a great collection of free and demo software, too. Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies is tech support in a book!
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Synopsis
* What the book covers: Most troubleshooting books concentrate on upgrading--and usually hardware at that. This book concentrates on solving problems--whether they are software, hardware, or operating system problems. In addition, Dan offers tools and advice on maintaining your system to maximize its life. Seven minibooks cover
* Hardware
* Software
* Laptops
* Internet
* Networking
* Maintenance
* Useful Tools
* Series features: The book will reflect the handholding, clear explanations, and light humor that are hallmarks of the For Dummies style.
Synopsis
Who needs tech support?
Amaze your friends and fix it yourself!
When your PC goes rogue, having this hefty volume at your elbow is the next best thing to having a personal PC genie. Got a problem? Look it up in one of these handy minibooks to learn a bit about what might have caused it as well as how to solve it. When you understand what's wrong, it's easier to fix it now and prevent it from happening again.
The Zen of fix-it find out what's behind common PC problems and why the same solution may work in several situations
You haven't got mail solve e-mail and Web woes, make friends with ActiveX®, and guard against evil software
When it's the network resolve router problems, reset the modem, delve into IP addresses, and find the elusive wireless network
That ever-lovin' laptop investigate startup issues, battery quirks, power problems, and laptop travel woes
Like getting an oil change perform regular maintenance and get serious about backups
Open the book and find:
Tips and solutions for both Windows® XP and Vista
What happens when your PC performs basic functions, and what could go wrong
Startup and recovery options
Strategies to find missing files
Fixes for unhappy disks and balky printers
Tools for keeping out viruses and malware
Ways to pep up your PC
Secrets for successfully restoring files
About the Author
Dan Gookin wrote the original For Dummies book, DOS For Dummies, and launched a phenomenon. Among his many author credits are PCs For Dummies, Laptops For Dummies, and Word 2007 For Dummies. His books have more than 11 million copies in print and have been translated into 32 languages.
Table of Contents
Introduction.Book I: Hardware.
Chapter 1: Let There Be PC.
Chapter 2: Birth Pangs.
Chapter 3: Death Throes.
Chapter 4: Mass Storage Issues.
Chapter 5: Pain in the Printer.
Chapter 6: Seeing Trouble.
Chapter 7: Peripheralitis.
Chapter 8: Deep Inside the Computer Case.
Book II: Software.
Chapter 1: Windows Gone AWOL.
Chapter 2: Programs, Processes, and Services.
Chapter 3: The Safe Mode Chapter.
Chapter 4: Putting the Pep Back into the PC.
Chapter 5: User Accounts.
Chapter 6: Unexpected Application Situations.
Chapter 7: Reporting for Duty.
Chapter 8: Recovery Options.
Chapter 9: Registry Fixes.
Book III: Laptops.
Chapter 1: Laptop Asleep, Laptop Awake, Laptop Dead.
Chapter 2: A More Usable Laptop.
Chapter 3: Out on the Road.
Chapter 4: Laptop Maintenance.
Book IV: Internet.
Chapter 1: Internet Malaise.
Chapter 2: Woes on the Web.
Chapter 3: E-Mail Postage Due.
Chapter 4: Wicked Software.
Chapter 5: The File Transfer Chapter.
Book V: Networking.
Chapter 1: Network Hardware Help.
Chapter 2: The Soft Side of Networking.
Chapter 3: Peer-to-Peer Networking.
Chapter 4: Networking Unplugged.
Book VI: Maintenance.
Chapter 1: Backup, Backup, Backup.
Chapter 2: Pampering the Hard Drive.
Chapter 3: On Schedule.
Chapter 4: A Time to Clean.
Appendix A: About the DVD.
Index.