Complete Idiot's Guide To PC's, 6 Ed

Local Disk......Page 0
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Table of Contents......Page 1
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Introduction......Page 3
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 1 -- Kick-Starting Your Computer......Page 7
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 2 -- Taking Control with Your Keyboard and Mouse......Page 21
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 3 -- Playing Disk Jockey with Hard Disks, Floppy Disks, and CDs......Page 29
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 4 -- Windows Survival Guide......Page 39
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 5 -- T......Page 53
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 6 -- Do-It-Yourself Program Installation Guide......Page 65
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 7 -- Running and Juggling Programs......Page 75
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 8 -- Barking Out Commands......Page 84
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 9 -- Making, Saving, and Naming Documents......Page 91
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 10 -- Giving Your Documents the Editorial Eye......Page 102
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 11 -- Sprucing Up Your Documents with Formatting......Page 110
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 12 -- Picture This (Working with Graphics)......Page 118
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 13 -- Okay, Now You Can Print It!......Page 126
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 14 -- Surviving Without Documentation......Page 133
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 15 -- Doing the Floppy (Formatting and Copying Disks)......Page 139
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 16 -- Copying, Moving, and Nuking Folders and Files......Page 144
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 17 -- Networking (for Those Corporate Types)......Page 151
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 18 -- First You Need a Modem......Page 159
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 19 -- T......Page 171
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 20 -- Doing the Internet Shuffle......Page 181
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 21 -- Whipping Around the World Wide Web......Page 190
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 22 -- Email: Postage Free, Same-Day Delivery......Page 202
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 23 -- T......Page 210
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 24 -- Reaching Out with Chat and Internet Phone......Page 217
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 25 -- Online Security Issues......Page 225
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 26 -- Savvy Consumer Guide to Buying a Computer......Page 234
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 27 -- Upgrading Your Computer to Make It the Best It Can Be......Page 244
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 28 -- Do-It-Yourself Computer Tune-Ups......Page 255
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 29 -- Life on the Run: Laptop Computing......Page 266
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 30 -- Free (or at Least Cheap) Computer Maintenance......Page 276
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 31 -- Backing Up for the Inevitable Crash......Page 283
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 32 -- Do-It-Yourself Fixes for Common Ailments......Page 290
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Ch 33 -- Help! Finding Technical Support......Page 303
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Appendix A -- Speak Like a Geek: The Complete Archive......Page 308
The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs -- Copyright --......Page 322