PCs for DUMmIES Quick Reference 3rd.pdf

PCs

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DUMmIES

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QUICK REFERENCE

3 RD EDITION

by Dan Gookin

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About the Author

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

has contributed articles to numerous high-tech magazines and

written more than 100 books about personal computing technol-

ogy, 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 copies 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 Troubleshooting Your PC For

Dummies, 2nd Edition; C All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies;

PCs For Dummies, 9th Edition; Buying a Computer For Dummies,

2005 Edition; Dan Gookin’s Naked Windows XP; and Dan Gookin’s

Naked Office. He also publishes a free weekly computer newsletter,

“Weekly Wambooli Salad,” full of tips, how-tos, and computer news,

and he maintains the vast and helpful Web page 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 of Idaho.

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Contents at a Glance

Big Picture: The Personal Computer ..................................BP-1

Part I: Connecting Stuff ............................................................1

Part II: Installing Hardware and Software ............................11

Part III: The On–Off Thing ......................................................29

Part IV: Popular Places in Windows ......................................41

Part V: Disk Drives ..................................................................65

Part VI: The Stuff You Create ..................................................83

Part VII: Organizing Your Stuff ............................................101

Part VIII: Printing ..................................................................113

Part IX: Networking ..............................................................131

Part X: Creating Your Own CDs ............................................145

Part XI: The Keyboard ..........................................................153

Part XII: The Mouse................................................................165

Glossary: Tech Talk................................................................175

Index ......................................................................................185

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