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

by Dan Gookin

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 heâ s provided a complete, plain-English manual in Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies. Liberally laced with Danâ 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 whatâ s wrong as well as how to fix it. Youâ ll learn 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 Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies is tech support in a book!


The Kindle edition of this book does not include any CDs or DVDs.

Genres: Computers, Technology

768 pages, Paperback

First published March 9, 2009

Reviews

[James F Ruehl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent pc troubleshooting text. I thought that my prior experiences held me very knowledgeable but I found Mr. Gookin's book taught me new things or expanded my knowledge base. I have been playing with computers since 1960 which proves you can teach an old dog new tricks

[Ben · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a pretty good book on PC maintenance.

As I am actively building the ultimate development PC, I got a few good quips from it.
However, I did find it a bit outdated.

3.3/5

[Damian]

I like this book because it realy help me fix my laptop which has working vey slowly utill i read the book and made my life more easier that before.

iam glad that i read this book because thier stuff in their that i didnt knew and help my laptop go fast and better than before. when my laptop didnt work right it was slow and brightnees was too low after reading the book i discovered that it need updates and found out how to increase the light of it and while read i also discovered how to change the laptop apperance. now iam one happy camper

[Beckie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think this book will inevitably remain always on my "currently reading" list because it's sort of my technology bible. I read it for fun, for work, for curing boredom and insomnia, I use it for teaching others and remembering this random things I only use once a year. This is the first "Dummies" book I ever bought and while it definitely starts at a very basic level, it's not useless to people with more advanced computer skills.

[Daniel]

* 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. The problems are the ones that Dan Gookin hears most...

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Need an updated version and I have a laptop not a desk top but it was still useful. If I found this book somewhere cheap, I would buy it and keep it close by.
The for dummies books are great!!

[Fatima]

For understanding computers.