The Healthy PC Guide

Carey Holzman

230 pages, parution le 18/11/2003

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Résumé

Learn routine maintenance as well as desktop basics, hard drive care and defragmentation, and plenty more to make your PC more efficient and keep it running smoothly. Learn software management, tame the Internet, secure your machine, deal with downloads, and much more.

Offers the reader a tour of desktop basics (changing your screensaver, adding programs to your Quick Launch Toolbar, and setting your monitor for optimal performance).
The book takes the convoluted workings of the Windows PC and walks the reader through routine maintenance resulting in a more stable and more efficient PC.
Covers defragmenting the hard drive, deleting temporary files, removing old and unused programs. All this helps to speed up the PC and prevent crashes.
Shows the reader how to secure data by explaining the use of cookies, the need for product updates and where they can be found, and how to restrict access to certain Internet sites, which is especially useful for families.
The book's author is an instructor at Computer Career Center, a Long Island NY training company.

Part I: Getting to Know Your PC
- What is Windows? Picking What You Need.
- Getting Around, `Your Guide to Simple Navigation'
- Taming the System, `Implementing Control'
Part II: System Maintenance (Software)
- Maintaining the System, `Manage Your Software' C
- Maintaining the System, `the Scary Stuff'
- Your New Friend ' The Internet
- Red Alert ' PC Not Secure!
Part III: System Maintenance (Hardware)
- Maintaining the System, `Manage Your Hardware'
- Strengthen the System, `Adding New Hardware
- : Peripherals: Adding New Arms and Legs to Your PC
Part IV: Troubleshooting your system
- : How to Avoid Tech Support, My PC Crashed, What Now?

Appendices and Flow charts:
- Basic Troubleshooting Steps Flow
- System Won't Boot Flow
- Beep Codes Flow
- Common System Errors Flow
- 'Not So Common' System Errors Flow
- No Video Flow
- Safe Freeware Sites Flow
- Common Sites to Visit for Help Flow
- Common Vendor Support Sites Flow
- Windows Update Sites for All Systems

L'auteur - Carey Holzman

PC repair specialist

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	Carey Holzman
Parution	18/11/2003
Nb. de pages	230
Format	18,5 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	435g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780072229233
ISBN13	978-0-07-222923-3