The Complete Pc Upgrade And Maintenance Guide

Clear, Expert Advice for PC Users of Every Stripe No matter how you use your PC--as a business tool, an entertainment center, or an Internet on-ramp--this latest edition of The Complete PC Upgrade & Maintenance Guide has you covered. Inside, you'll find the clear, expert advice on maintaining, upgrading, and troubleshooting for which this book is famous. It's all updated to cover the latest technologies and guaranteed to help you extend the life and power of your PC. You also get targeted instruction on a wide range of entertainment upgrades--ways to enhance your enjoyment of music, photo, movies, and more. Coverage includes: * Preventing hardware disasters * Upgrading memory * Replacing power supplies * Partitioning drives using NTFS and FAT32 * Solving data backup challenges * Protecting your PC from viruses, worms, and spyware * Adding SCSI cards and drives * Installing DVDs, CD-ROMs, and EIDE and Serial ATA hard drives * Troubleshooting printers and scanners * Installing communications devices * Resolving mouse and keyboard problems * Installing video and sound cards * Tackling networking issues, both wired and wireless * Troubleshooting Internet connectivity * Solving laptop problems * Capturing and editing video * Managing music and image files * Watching movies on DVD * Getting the most out of new storage and networking technologies

The World's Leading PC Guide--Updated, Expanded, Reorganized The Complete PC Upgrade and Maintenance Guide continues its reign as the PC world's great problem-solving wonder. In simple, easy-to-follow language, it shows you how to prevent disasters, fix the ones that occur, and maximize your PC's power and longevity. Based on author Mark Minasi's popular seminars, this book is an unbeatable value. It teaches you everything you need to know to meet all your PC challenges, present and future. Coverage includes: * Preventing hardware disasters * Upgrading memory * Replacing power supplies * Installing EIDE and Serial ATA hard drives * Adding SCSI ports * Partitioning drives using NTFS and FAT32 * Protecting your PC from viruses, worms, and spyware * Solving data backup challenges * Adding and repairing DVDs and CD-ROMs * Installing and troubleshooting scanners * Troubleshooting printers * Installing communications devices * Resolving mouse and keyboard problems * Installing video and sound cards * Tackling networking issues * Installing a wireless network * Troubleshooting Internet connectivity * Solving laptop problems

The "Lab Manual" is a workbook for students taking college and training school classes in computer upgrade, maintenance and repair. It reinforces lessons with practical, hands-on tasks. Each exercise provides students with recommended readings, objectives, lists of hardware and software to perform tasks, step-by-step procedures for completing lab work, and student lab report.

Step-by-step instructions and hundreds of illustrations walk readers through the toughest upgrades and repairs, with 650 pages of user-friendly information. A troubleshooting section features questions most computer tech support people encounter.