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Leo Laporte's PC Help Desk (Laporte Press)

Leo Laporte, Mark Edward Soper

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

The pc help desk.,by leo laporte ,is a must for all computer users.. 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

The pc help desk book written by leo laporte is a must read guide in keeping your pc or mac healthy...leo is warm and has a great sense of humor..He never talks down to his audience,and has been a lot of help to me on his call for help program...Any serious computer user,should buy this book...thank you! stewart l

Editorial Review:

Nurse your PC back to health with a little help from Leo Laporte. Leo Laporte's PC Help Desk in a Book uses a unique, medical dictionary approach, complete with symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment for all of your common and not-so-common PC maladies. Flow-charts will help you correctly diagnose and treat such problems as:

• Windows installation woes
• Storage device tragedies
• Printer problems
• Pesky audio, video and general multimedia mayhem
• Keyboard and mouse afflictions
• Home networking headaches
• Core PC hardware issues
• Application failures
• Viruses, spyware and spam infections

Don't waste time digging through paperwork only to find a tech-support line that is going to cost you an arm and a leg to cure your PC's ailments. Make your own house calls instead with Leo Laporte's PC Help Desk in a Book.

CompTIA Convergence+ Certification Study Guide (Certification Study Guides)

Tom Carpenter

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The Best Fully Integrated Study System Available for Exam CT0-101

With hundreds of practice questions and hands-on exercises, CompTIA Convergence+ Certification Study Guide covers what you need to know--and shows you how to prepare--for this challenging exam.

• 100% complete coverage of all official objectives for the CompTIA Convergence+ exam
• Exam Readiness Checklist at the front of the book--youAnd#39;re ready for the exam when all objectives on the list are checked off
• Two-Minute Drills for quick review at the end of every chapter
• Simulated exam questions match the format, tone, topics, and difficulty of the real exam

Covers all the exam topics, including: Networking Infrastructure and Design; Network Protocols; Infrastructure Hardware; Client Devices; Telephony Fundamentals; Telephony Hardware; Multimedia and Video; Quality of Service; Converged Network Management; Troubleshooting Converged Networks; Security Vulnerabilities and Solutions

CD-ROM includes:

• Complete MasterExam practice testing engine, featuring: One full practice exam; Detailed answers with explanations; Score Report performance assessment tool
• Electronic book for studying on the go
• Bonus downloadable MasterExam practice test (with free online registration)

iPod Repair QuickSteps (Quicksteps)

Brandon Jones, Marc Campbell

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Get more life out of your iPod

Like every other electronic device, iPods break down. Until now, the prospect of repairing an iPod was daunting, if not nearly impossible for the average user. In this full-color, inexpensive guide, the owner of the fastest-growing chain of iPod repair shops in the U.S. shares the secrets of figuring out what is wrong with an iPod and fixing it--without paying costly repair bills. He also reveals how to make an iPod work even better.

Troubleshooting and Repairing Computer P

Stephen J. Bigelow

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

UPGRADE YOURSELF! 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 10 people found this review helpful.

Ok, you are expert in computers. But, Do you know how to repair printers? No?

So, this book is the next upgrade that you will make to yourself! Very good book. A lot of examples and images.

I have to say that this book, will give to you a lot of oportunities and money!

Be smarter...And good look...

Want to know how to fix printers? Buy this book! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Learn how to fix printers! If you are already a PC technician and want to enlarge your knowledge, this book is perfect for you! It shows how matrix, ink jets and laser printers work and how to fix them.

Editorial Review:

A guide to troubleshooting and repairing printers offers readers step-by-step procedures for servicing and repairing every major printer in service today, including impact, thermal, ink jet, and laser printers. Original.

A+ All-In-One Certification Exam Guide

Michael Meyers

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Total reviews: 145 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

A+ Certification Bestseller Rockets Your Career. Why wait for opportunity to knock when A+ Certification can open doors for you? Now in its Second Edition, Michael Meyhers's bestselling A+ Certification Exam Guide has already shown over 60,000 career-minded professionals how to rocket ahead as a high-paid A+ Certified PC technician. Plus, this proven coaching tool not only prepares you to ace the exam's Core and DOS/Windows modules, it serves as a dependable on-the-job advisor that can hone your technical skills in installing, configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting all major PC hardware, operating software, and peripherals. Complete with a step-by-step study plan, points to remember, trouble spots to avoid, insider tips for taking the exam and more, it makes it a snap to master correct troubleshooting and repair procedures for: *Microprocessors *Power supplies *RAM *Motherboards *Floppy and hard drives *Expansion buses *DOS and memory *Windows 95/98 *SCSI systems *Printers *Modems *Video devices *CMOS and BIOS setups *More

PC Magazine Windows XP Speed Solutions

Curt Simmons

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Get that snail out of your system
"In these pages, you'll find all kinds of tips, tweaks, hacks, and configuration settings that should help you regain some speed control over Windows XP. I'll also show you how to get rid of the clutter and junk that Windows XP picks up over time..."
--Curt Simmons

When everything seems like slow motion, it's time to call in PC Magazine's favorite system doctor

You have to clean out most things after you use them for awhile. Why should your PC be any different? This indispensable book shows you exactly how to turn that snail into a cheetah by unloading the junk that Windows XP has collected, turbo-charging your system for faster response, cleaning up the Registry, and using all the safeguards provided in Service Pack 2. Just don't be surprised if your PC is faster than on the day you brought it home.

Give Windows XP a power boost
* Make programs start faster with hidden prefetch settings
* Eliminate spyware, adware, and unwanted cookies
* Dump programs you don't need (but know which ones you DO)
* Pre-schedule maintenance tasks
* Boost system startup by disabling features
* Tweak virtual memory
* Learn to work with the Registry
* Update your device drivers
* Beef up your cable or DSL speed
* Learn from special tips and tricks in every chapter

PC Help Desk in a Book: The Do-it-Yourself Guide to PC Troubleshooting and Repair

Mark Edward Soper

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A great help 5 out of 5 stars.
13 of 14 people found this review helpful.

I had looked at this book for a long time, but delayed buying it. I finally bought it as a supplement to other, more technical books I have. It gives me the information I need without numbing my mind in geek-speak. During the first 24 hours after buying it, this book got me out of several difficult problems quickly and effortlessly. Surprisingly, it is not the diagnostic flow charts I have found most helpful, but the book's running text located by way of index entries has been the most helpful to me in solving the problems I had, one of which was the Blue Screen of Death related to the recognition of a hard drive on an OS installation.

Editorial Review:

Each year, thousands of harmless PCs suffer the pain and humiliation of buggy Windows installations, bad cable connections, mismanaged system resources, viruses, and slow Internet connections. All too often, these downtrodden PCs end up being scrapped before their time by owners who just can't care for them any longer. The real travesty is that with a little love, these wounded PCs could become useful members of society. That's where PC HelpDesk in a Book comes in. Using a unique, medical dictionary approach, this book walks users through the symptoms to diagnose and treat the problem. End-users will be armed to perform cost-effective upgrades, repair fouled Windows installations, and squeeze out a little more performance from a slow Internet connection in lieu of purchasing a new computer.

Degunking Windows

Joli Ballew, Jeff Duntemann

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Total reviews: 28 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Well Worth The Money 4 out of 5 stars.
12 of 12 people found this review helpful.

As someone who frequently "degunks" friends, relatives, and associates' PCs, I can honestly say that this book provides a good step-by-step "blueprint" in optimizing your PC's performance, eliminating viruses and other threats, and reducing the clutter.

If you were to take your PC to a pro to have it looked at, it will likely cost you at least $150 or more to have this service performed for you. If you think you need a new PC because your current one is too slow, try this book first. It will likely get it running smooth again.

Many PC pros won't tell you this, because they want your business. But even computer novices can do all the steps in this book.

Editorial Review:

Degunking Windows is a unique guide that will help PC users save hundreds of hours of valuable time - and a great deal of money - by showing them techniques that keep their Windows-based PCs running quickly and efficiently, eliminating the need to upgrade their computers prematurely. The primary focus of the book is Windows XP, although other versions of Windows are covered.

PC Upgrade & Repair Simplified, 2nd Edition

Paul Whitehead

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a Great guide for pc repair ! A++ 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.

I have checked several "pc upgrade" books which are in great details but vague. This one has only 225 pages and the best thing of this book is that it practically shows you with images rather than giving you more technical info to make it more complicated. That's why I found it so easy....! to follow. If you really want to learn how to repair or upgrade your pc, then save some money and buy this one.

-=The Perfect Books For Upgrade=- 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 5 people found this review helpful.

for those newbs like i was who are scare of upgrating a pc or repair it well this books is perfect for you it has so many pages that show you how to do all the above things with out reading a lot yeas read less and learn more i got to tell with this book i reapir and upgrate my pc sometime not like before but also help you to build one
i have just one sujesstion BUY IT!!!

Editorial Review:

The premier full-color guide to PC upgrade and repair is back -- and better than ever! Now updated to cover all of the latest technologies, from Pentium III and USB to Firewire and DVD drives, this book remains the easiest guide available for visually oriented PC do-it-yourselfers, with more than 1,000 step-by-step illustrations accompanied by short, to-the-point captions.

Upgrading and Fixing a PC in Easy Steps (In Easy Steps)

Stuart Yarnold

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Editorial Review:

This guide, now in its second edition, shows how to replace components or add new ones to any PC. Simple, illustrated instructions and colorful sidebars describe how to identify, locate, and install the relevant parts to make the computer faster, more versatile, and more powerful. More than just a handy how-to manual, this book is also a consumer guide that explains how to evaluate the performance, storage, and networking needs of the PC. There's even a money-saving tutorial on various buying options and a separate chapter on troubleshooting trickier problems.