Troubleshooting Your PC

by M. David Stone, Alfred Poor, David M Stone

Offers practical advice on diagnosing and preventing hardware and software malfunctions. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735614903
• ISBN13: 9780735614901
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

This is a great book

Given that this book is listed here as out of print, it many not matter much, but this is a great book. I'm prompted to write this review because of the two highly misleading negative reviews below. (Give me a break. Am I really to believe that two people from Chicago decided to write two reviews in two days with negative reviews, without the two being related? Sounds like the same guy wrote the two negative reviews, for I don't know what reason.) I bought this book originally in its first edition, and found it extremely helpful, not just in solving specific problems covered in the book, but for a disuccsions that gives a highly useful approach for solving problems in general. This book is well written, easy to understand, and solves a whole bunch of specific problems that go way beyond "is it plugged it." (Yes, it covers the importance of checking basics too, but it goes way beyond that. I was looking it up here to buy copies for two friends who I thought could benefit from it, and am disappointed that it's out of print. If you can get your hands on it, it's well worth having.

Easy to use at a great price!

Without a doubt, the best type of troubleshooting book I've seen. Colorful, easy to use, and has great tips on all kinds of PC disasters, major and minor. I have never seen a book quite like this -- there are flow charts so that you can work your way through a problem yourself, and there are also tips which give you great ideas on how to understand and fix other PC problems. Great value for less than $20. This is apparently part of a new series -- I've ordered the books on Excel and Access. Really great idea for a book series, I hope there will be more of them to come. If you're looking to become more computer savvy these books will help you quickly!