Troubleshooting & maintaining your PC all-in-one for dummies - Dan Gookin

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®, 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® 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