Troubleshooting and Maintaining Your PC All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies E-Book

Dan Gookin

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2009

Seitenzahl: 1037

Beschreibung

Maintaining a PC is important, and troubleshooting a PC can be achallenge. Dan Gookin is great at explaining how to handle commonPC problems, and he's provided a complete, plain-Englishmanual in Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-OneFor Dummies. Liberally laced with Dan's famous humor and clearinstructions, Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PCAll-in-One For Dummies is divided into six minibooks coveringhardware, 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, andprotect your system from evil software and viruses * Resolve router problems, reset the modem, delve into IPaddresses, and find the elusive wireless network * Investigate startup issues, battery quirks, and powerproblems * 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 somethingmajor goes wrong, and pep up your PC The bonus DVD walks you through some of the complex stepsdiscussed in the book and demonstrates tasks like removing a harddrive. There's a great collection of free and demo software,too. Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One ForDummies is tech support in a book! Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials arenot included as part of eBook file.

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Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies®

Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies®

by Dan Gookin

Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies®

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About the Author

Dan Gookin has been writing about technology for way, way too long. He has contributed articles to numerous high-tech magazines and written over 110 books on personal computers, many of them accurate.

Dan combines his love of writing with his gizmo fascination to create books that are informative, entertaining, and not boring. Having sold more than 14 million titles translated into over 30 languages, Dan can attest that his method of crafting computer tomes seems to work.

Perhaps his most famous title is the original DOS For Dummies, published in 1991. It became the world’s fastest-selling computer book, at one time moving more copies per week than the New York Times #1 bestseller (though, as a reference, it could not be listed on the NYT bestseller list). That book spawned the entire line of For Dummies books, which remains a publishing phenomenon to this day.

Dan’s most popular titles include Word 2007 For Dummies, Laptops For Dummies, and PCs For Dummies (all published by Wiley). He also maintains the vast and helpful Web page www.wambooli.com.

Dan holds a degree in communications/visual arts from the University of California, San Diego. Presently, he lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he enjoys spending time with his sons playing video games inside while they watch the gentle woods of Idaho.

Dedication

To Cosette. Thanks for the love and attention. You will be missed.

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Introduction

If trouble were predictable, it wouldn’t be a problem. The problem with trouble, however, is that it’s unpredictable.

You hold in your hands a big ol’ book that could potentially be the largest volume ever written on the topic of personal computers. The subject is troubleshooting. It’s vast. That’s mostly because there hasn’t been a computer yet invented that didn’t have trouble following it like a shadow on a sunny day.

The computing experience should be a pleasant one. And it can be — if you’re informed and able to deal with the troubles you encounter. This book helps you along that journey in an informative and entertaining way. Welcome to Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-In-One For Dummies.

Woe Is Computer

A byte of prevention is worth a megabyte of cure.

My philosophy on troubleshooting is that it’s easier to do when you understand how the computer works. This philosophy is opposite of what most people expect, which is to look up a specific condition and find a specific cure for it. Although many people like that approach, it has two problems.