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

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.