PCs for DUMmIES 10th.pdf

PCs

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DUMmIES

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10 TH EDITION

by Dan Gookin

PCs For Dummies, 10th Edition

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About the Author

Dan Gookin has been writing about technology for 20 years. He has con-

tributed articles to numerous high-tech magazines and written more than

100 books about personal computing technology, many of them accurate.

He combines his love of writing with his interest in technology to create

books that are informative and entertaining, but not boring. Having sold more

than 14 million titles translated into more than 30 languages, Dan can attest

that his method of crafting computer tomes does seem to work.

Perhaps Dan’s most famous title is the original DOS For Dummies, published

in 1991. It became the world’s fastest-selling computer book, at one time

moving more copies per week than the New York Times number-one best

seller (although, because it’s a reference book, it could not be listed on the

NYT best seller list). That book spawned the entire line of For Dummies

books, which remains a publishing phenomenon to this day.

Dan’s most recent titles include Laptops For Dummies ; Buying a Computer For

Dummies, 2006 Edition; Troubleshooting Your PC For Dummies , 2nd Edition;

Power Excel & Word; and eBay Photos That Sell. He also maintains the vast

and helpful Web site www.wambooli.com.

Dan holds a degree in communications and visual arts from the University of

California, San Diego. He lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he enjoys

spending time with his four boys in the gentle woods and on the temperate

blue lakes of Idaho.

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Contents at a Glance

Introduction ................................................................1

Part I: Introducing the PC ............................................7

Chapter 1: Computer? PC? What’s That? ........................................................................9

Chapter 2: The Nerd’s-Eye View ....................................................................................17

Chapter 3: Insert Tab A into Slot B ................................................................................29

Chapter 4: Computer On, Computer Off .......................................................................43

Chapter 5: Places to Go, Things to See in Windows ...................................................57

Part II: Computer Guts ...............................................67

Chapter 6: Inside the Box ...............................................................................................69

Chapter 7: The Basic Ports ............................................................................................83

Chapter 8: Disk Drives Me Crazy ...................................................................................93

Chapter 9: Memories . . . Like a PC Full of RAM .........................................................107

Chapter 10: Minding Your Monitors ............................................................................119

Chapter 11: The Keyboard and Mouse Chapter ........................................................133

Chapter 12: More than a Mortal Printer .....................................................................149

Chapter 13: The Mighty Morphin’ Power Modem .....................................................163

Chapter 14: Sounds Like ...............................................................................................173

Chapter 15: Even More Hardware! ...............................................................................183

Part III: Networking Nonsense ..................................191

Chapter 16: Basic Painless Networking ......................................................................193

Chapter 17: Abusing the Network ...............................................................................207

Chapter 18: Your Network and the Internet ...............................................................219

Chapter 19: Look, Ma: No Wires! .................................................................................229

Part IV: The Soft Side of Computing ..........................239

Chapter 20: Files: The Key to Understanding Software ............................................241

Chapter 21: Organizing Your Compu-Junk .................................................................253

Chapter 22: File Control ................................................................................................265

Chapter 23: Software, Programs, Applications ..........................................................279

Chapter 24: Making Your Own CDs .............................................................................289

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