PC Repair and Maintenance: A Practical Guide is a reader-friendly guide to repairing computers (running either Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, or XP) through easy-to-understand language, detailed diagrams, and video tutorials. The book emphasizes that a deep understanding of "how a computer works" is not necessary to diagnose and repair problem[Read More]

Dan Gookin, author of DOS For Dummies and PCs For Dummies, is an unparalleled expert at helping beginners understand and use computers. He brings that expertise, with the help of co-author, wife, and Parenting For Dummies author Sandy Gookin, to PCs For Dummies Quick Reference. This new edition to the ...For Dummies Quick Reference series is an ide[Read More]

Operating a personal computer requires more than just dealing with the PC itself. As anyone with even a modicum of computer experience can attest, there are all types of hardware devices which you must become familiar with disk drives, printers, monitors, and sound cards, just to name a few. And, naturally, each is fraught with its own set of bug[Read More]

This one-stop reference guide contains various recommendations and advice for tuning, optimizing, and overclocking almost all computer elements to achieve your maximum computer performance. Using results from actual performance testing, readers will gain a clear understanding of what will be gained from overclocking their computer. Also inc[Read More]

Pocket PC Network Programming is the resource students need to exploit the power of mobile technology and high-speed wireless connections. This book is a comprehensive tutorial and reference for writing network applications on Pocket PC 2002 and Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition devices. It explains how the Pocket PC communicates with the Internet, with[Read More]

* Offers step-by-step instructions for more than 190 optimizing tasks, including streamlining a Start menu, preventing unnecessary programs from wasting memory, improving monitor performance, and printing faster and more efficiently * The ideal resource for intermediate to advanced visual learners who want to speed up a dragging computer, unders[Read More]

A complete guide to great backyard buildings with ninety four designs of barns, stables, garages, sheds and garden structures; plans that you can purchase directly from their designers; a directory of hard-to-find building products, guide books, kits, timber frames and prefab buildings; and good advice on site planning and construction.