Product Description

Bill Gates’s famously bold prediction — that one day, every home would have a computer — is now, if anything, a huge understatement, with many households boasting multiple machines.

Written by a working PC technician, Teach Yourself Home PC Maintenance and Networking takes you through the basics – the jobs you can do yourself with a bit of know how and a screwdriver. It tells you what you need to know about hardware and how to get the most from Windows XP and Vista operating system tools. If you have more than one PC (and a lot of us have, these days) you will learn how to network them to share your printer / scanner / Internet connection, using conventional cables or wireless technology. And for the jobs that you can't do yourself, there are some guidelines on how to find and brief a PC technician and how to check that you're getting the work you pay for. This book could save you serious money. Buy it. You know it makes sense!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #338795 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

From the Author
Before I wrote Teach Yourself Home PC Maintenance and
Networking I spent a couple of years fixing and sometimes networking PCs
for households and small businesses in and around my home town. Before that
I was a field engineer for a national company.

A lot of the work that I did as a local jobbing technician was the sort of
things that people can do for themselves with a screwdriver and the tools
built into the Windows XP or Vista operating system software.

Teach Yourself Home PC Maintenance and Networking treats the 'care and
feeding' of the home PC as D-I-Y rather than hi-tech and tells you what
you need to know with the minimum of jargon.

If you can change a light bulb, mend a fuse, or check the oil in your car
you can do most of the jobs necessary to keep your PC working and working
well. All you need is a basic book (this one) a screwdriver and the
willingness to have a go, to experiment - to Teach Yourself.

About the Author
Anthony Price is an experienced PC Technician and Writer on Computing and Information Technology. He is also an Adult Education teacher based in Cornwall.

Customer Reviews

An excellent book that could save you money
This book walks you through the basics and shows you how to do the basic jobs on your home computer. If you have ever paid somebody to sort out a virus or fit a bit of new memory you'll appreciate how easy most of it is and how much you can save.