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

Troubleshooting and Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies
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Stop being a prisoner to your PC!

Need a PC problem fixed in a pinch? Presto! Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies offers 5 books in 1 and takes the pain out of wading through those incomprehensible manuals, or waiting for a high-priced geek to show up days or weeks after you need them. Arming you with everything you need to get that pesky PC working for you ASAP, this handy guide walks you through all the steps to restoring whatever's making your PC go rogue —so you can get back to making it work for you.

There's nothing worse than firing up your PC only to discover it's inexplicably unresponsive. 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.

Find out what's behind common PC problems

Solve email and web woes, both big and small

Perform regular maintenance and get serious about backups

Troubleshoot to find solutions to your issues and learn proper maintenance to head off future headaches!

Your PC problems aren't as big as you think! Take matters into your own hands with the helpful instruction provided inside this book!

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Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies

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Published simultaneously in Canada

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Introduction

If trouble were predictable, it wouldn’t be a problem. That’s because the problem with trouble is that it’s unpredictable.

You hold in your hands a big ol’ book that’s all about solving computer problems. The topic is troubleshooting. It needs to be covered in so many pages because there hasn’t yet been a computer invented that didn’t have trouble following it like a shadow on a sunny day.

The computing experience should be a pleasant one. And it can be – if you’re informed and able to deal with the troubles you encounter. This book helps you along that journey in an informative and entertaining way. Welcome to Troubleshooting and Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies.

About This Book

A byte of prevention is worth a gigabyte of cure.

This book’s philosophy on troubleshooting is that it’s easier to do when you understand how the computer works. This philosophy is opposite of what most computer users expect, which is to look up a specific condition and find a specific cure for it. This approach has two glitches.

The first downfall with the look-it-up approach is that you don’t learn anything. Because there’s a method behind PC madness, often, the same solution can be applied to multiple problems. After you understand why things go wrong, it’s not only easier to fix them – it’s also possible to prevent them in the first place.

The second difficulty with the specific-solution approach is that it would make this book obnoxiously huge. With millions upon millions of potential hardware and software configurations available in all the PCs in the world, it would take not one but several fat books to document every problem and its solution. This book is big enough already!

My approach is simple: Look up the problem, learn a bit about what might have caused it, and then arrive at a solution. The notion is that when trouble arises again later, you will have the experience to deal with it in a practical manner. Because most PC troubles have a common origin, this solution works.



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