Show your PC who’s boss Nothing’s more annoying than a tech malfunction, especially when it’s your PC—with the exception of perhaps wading through reams of random, unreliable theories online looking for a solution, or paying an expensive tech geek to show up to perform a five-minute fix. The latest edition of Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies puts all this frustration behind you and gets you straight to work solving the problem yourself! In his straightforward, friendly style, Dan Gookin—bestselling tech author and all-round Mr. Fixit—packs everything you need to know into 5-books-in-1, giving you the knowledge and process to hit on the right solution, fast. From identifying common problems to methodically narrowing down to the correct fix, you’ll save hours of frustrating research—and experience the sweet, righteous satisfaction of having achieved it all yourself. Pick up quick fixes Understand and reconnect networks Restore memory Boost your PC’s performance Every problem has a solution and PCs are no different: get this book and you’ll never catch yourself shouting at your monitor or frustrated with the motherboard again—well, maybe not quite so often.
With this guide, you'll gain all the skills and insight you need to need to bring it back to life —and to prevent it from ever leaving you in the lurch again.
This book will make you both happy. Nervous about starting a relationship with that box of chips and circuits? Fear not! Dan Gookin has been holding the hands of new PC users for nearly 20 years.
Diagnose and solve your PC problems with this easy-to-understand guide Written by veteran For Dummies author Dan Gookin, this straightforward guide shows you how to diagnose and solve the most common hardware and software problems your PC ...
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?
This hands-on guide takes the dread out of working with a personal computer. Leaving painful jargon and confusing terminology behind, it covers Windows 10 OS, connecting to and using services and data in the cloud, and so much more.
Add to this the simple fact that repairing your own PC is better than hiring someone else to do it because it's cheaper, faster, and you get an empowering sense of ownership and accomplishment. Besides, repairing your own PC is both ...
How did the hard drive escape? Your first option, as usual, is to restart the computer to see whether the missing hard drive can be found. That generally fixes the problem. If the hard drive is an external model, ensure that it's ...
f you didn't install Outlook 2010, run — do not dawdle — to your bookshelf and grab your Office 2010 DVD. You see, you need it in order to install Outlook. It's that good, and — in my opinion — using just about anything else is strictly ...
This 11th Edition of the all-time bestselling PC guide has been polished and honed to deliver everything you need to know about your twenty-first-century PC — from what plugs into what to adjusting your monitor to burning DVDs, and much ...
What You Will Learn: Understand your PC’s ecosystem and how to connect the dots, so you can successfully track problems to their source Create resilient backups of your operating system, files, and documents, and enable quick and easy ...