Troubleshooting and Maintaining Your PC All-in-One Desk Reference For DummiesJohn Wiley & Sons, 2009 M03 9 - 768 pages 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:
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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Hardware | 9 |
Let There Be PC | 11 |
Birth Pangs | 21 |
Death Throes | 39 |
Mass Storage Issues | 57 |
Pain in the Printer | 75 |
Seeing Trouble | 91 |
A More Usable Laptop | 357 |
Out on the Road | 365 |
Laptop Maintenance | 373 |
Internet | 379 |
Internet Malaise | 381 |
Woes on the Web | 405 |
EMail Postage Due | 425 |
Wicked Software | 451 |
Peripheralitis | 117 |
Deep Inside the Computer Case | 137 |
Software | 169 |
Windows Gone AWOL | 171 |
Programs Processes and Services | 201 |
The Safe Mode Chapter | 221 |
Putting the Pep Back into the PC | 229 |
User Accounts | 243 |
Unexpected Application Situations | 259 |
Reporting for Duty | 281 |
Recovery Options | 301 |
Registry Fixes | 325 |
Laptops | 335 |
Laptop Asleep Laptop Awake Laptop Dead | 337 |
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