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(r), 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(r) 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
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Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Maße
Höhe: 23.3 cm
Breite: 18.7 cm
Dicke: 40 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-470-39665-0 (9780470396650)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
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.
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.
