Troubleshooting Your PC - Softcover

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JIM ASPINWALL, consultant, writer, and consummate tinkerer, is Computer Currents magazine's "Windows Advisor" and the author of the concise PC configuration book, IRQ, DMA, & I/O. He has also served as an online PC and software support expert for forums on CompuServe and AOL. MIKE TODD founded the Capital PC User Group in Washington, DC, the IBM Special Interest Group on CompuServe, and the Los Angeles chapter of the Internet Society. He promotes the development of computer user groups around the world.

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Troubleshooting Your PC Fourth Edition Save Time, Save Money, and Save Your PC! Completely revised and updated for Windows 98/Windows NT upgrades, the Internet, and networking, this new edition of Troubleshooting Your PC explains absolutely everything you need to know to help figure out what is wrong with your PC and how to fix it! Whether your machine is sending you cryptic messages, your Windows system is crashing over and over again, or you just cannot get that modem to work, do not give up. With this definitive reference guide close at hand, you will quickly and easily get the answers you need to fix it yourself and get right back to work. Packed with detailed illustrations and troubleshooting diagrams! Get a Problem?

• Getting your PC started
• Configuring drivers
• Booting up
• Maximizing memory
• Multitasking user interfaces
• Installing or upgrading Windows
• Printing
• Compressing files
• Detecting viruses
• Setting up COM ports
• Moving files
• Networking two or more PCs
• Getting on the Internet

Look for the Symptom, Suspects, and Solutions icons to get right to the core of the problem!

• Trial version of Norton Utilities 3.0 Utilities
• System information from Watergate Software's PC–Doctor
• Trial version of Eurosoft's PC Check
• Freeware from Steve Gibson
• The Rosenthal Utilities suite
• Netscape Communicator 4
• WinZip 6.3

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