| Absolute Beginner's Guide to Upgrading and Fixing Your PC is organized into six main parts, as follows: Part 1, Before You Upgrade, gives you a quick refresher course on computer hardware basics and shows you how to prepare your system for an upgrade. Part 2, Essential Hardware Upgrades, provides step-by-step instructions on how to upgrade your PC's key pieces of hardware: system inputs, hard disk, CD/DVD drives, memory, mice, keyboards, printers, video cards and monitors, and sound cards and speakers. Part 3, Upgrading for Specific Applications, helps you decide what components of your system to upgrade for different uses downloading and listening to music, storing and editing digital pictures, watching and editing movies and home videos, and playing the latest PC games. Part 4, Upgrading Your Entire System, is all about the really big upgrades; you'll learn how to connect and configure a small wired or wireless network, speed up your Internet connection, install Windows XP, and upgrade to a brand new computer. Part 5, Preventing PC Problems, discusses essential system maintenance, and what you can do to avoid computer viruses and Internet attacks. Part 6, Troubleshooting Common Problems, presents a huge number of common PC problems along with probable causes and likely solutions.
Taken together, the 30 chapters in this book will help anyone even absolute beginners get the most out of their computer systems, and keep their PCs up and running. Just read what you need, and before long you'll have one of the best-performing computer systems on the block! |
