Its Never Done That Before - Guide to Troubleshooting WinXP



Starch Press, Inc. |-| ISBN 1-59327-076-3 |-| PDF |-| English |-| 283 Pages |-| 3.57 MB |-| No Pass

Introduction
This book was inspired by the cover of a Datamation magazine that appeared about 20 years ago. It shows a man in an office with what used to be a desktop computer on the table in front of him. The poor guy has his hands poised over the keyboard, but the rest of the machine is in tiny pieces all over the room. His eyebrows have been burned off, his hair is blown straight back, and his coffee cup has tipped over. There’s a huge cloud of black smoke over his head. It’s obvious that the computer exploded about five seconds earlier. He’s thinking, “It’s never done that before.” Most computer problems aren’t that violent or that dramatic, but the immediate result is often the same: you sit there in a state of shock, staring at the computer, saying to yourself, “What happened? What should I do now? It’s never done that before!” This book will tell you how to understand and fix most personal computer failures, whether they were caused by the computer hardware, by the Windows operating system, or by some other program running on the computer.
There’s not much you can do when your computer explodes except to sweep up the remains and open a window to let the smoke out of the room. But if Windows won’t start, or your hard drive breaks down, or you get a cryptic Blue Screen error message, or any of a jillion other things go wrong, you can almost always restore the machine to useful operation and recover most of your data if you take an organized approach to troubleshooting. The tools for understanding most computer problems are out there on the Internet, in manuals and user guides, and through both on- and offline communities of people who use similar equipment and programs. But they won’t do you any good unless you know where to find them. That’s what this book is for.

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