Troubleshooting and Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition

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!

Table of Contents

Book 1: Solve My Problem Now!
Chapter 1: Trouble Comes Hither
Chapter 2: Quick Fixes

Book 2: O, We Got Trouble!
Chapter 1: Startup Problems
Chapter 2: Disk Disaster
Chapter 3: Monitor Mayhem
Chapter 4: Internal Issues
Chapter 5: Printer Problems
Chapter 6: Peripheral Perils
Chapter 7: Software Situations
Chapter 8: Network Nonsense
Chapter 9: Shutdown Issues

Book 3: Tools to Use
Chapter 1: Windows Recovery Environment
Chapter 2: The Device Manager
Chapter 3: MSCONFIG and the Task Manager
Chapter 4: Safe Mode
Chapter 5: System Restore
Chapter 6: The Task Manager
Chapter 7: The Windows Registry
Chapter 8: Events and Diagnostics

Book 4: PC Security
Chapter 1: Windows Update
Chapter 2: Keep Mr. PC Safe
Chapter 3: Backup and Restore

Book 5: This Old PC
Chapter 1: Performance and Resources
Chapter 2: More Mass Storage
Chapter 3: Boost PC Performance