Upgrading & Fixing PCs for DUMmIES 7th.pdf

Upgrading &

Fixing PCs

FOR

DUMmIES

‰

7 TH EDITION

by Andy Rathbone

Upgrading & Fixing PCs For Dummies, 7th Edition

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About the Author

Andy Rathbone started geeking around with computers in 1985 when he

bought a boxy CP/M Kaypro 2X with lime-green letters. Like other budding

nerds, he soon began playing with null-modem adapters, dialing up computer

bulletin boards, and working part-time at RadioShack.

In between playing computer games, he served as editor of the Daily Aztec

newspaper at San Diego State University. After graduating with a comparative

literature degree, he went to work for a bizarre underground coffee-table

magazine that sort of disappeared.

Andy began combining his two main interests, words and computers, by

selling articles to a local computer magazine. During the next few years, he

started ghostwriting computer books for more-famous computer authors,

as well as writing several hundred articles about computers for technoid

publications like Supercomputing Review, CompuServe Magazine, ID Systems,

DataPro, and Shareware.

In 1992, Andy and DOS For Dummies author/legend Dan Gookin teamed up

to write PCs For Dummies . Andy subsequently wrote the award-winning

Windows For Dummies series, TiVo For Dummies, and many other For

Dummies books .

Today, he has more than 15 million copies of his books in print, which have

been translated into more than 30 languages.

Andy lives with his most-excellent wife, Tina, and their cat in Southern

California. Feel free to drop by his Web site at www.andyrathbone.com.

Dedication

To that sense of satisfaction felt when you fix it yourself.

Author’s Acknowledgments

Thanks to Jean Rogers, Matt Wagner, Heidi Unger, Andy Hollandbeck,

Lee Musick, and Steve Hayes.

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