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Author: Guy Hart-Davis
ISBN : 0071752919
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Get your PC running at full speed again--and remove malevolent software
Save yourself time, money, and frustration by becoming your own computer guru. The Healthy PC: Preventive Care, Home Remedies, and Green Computing, Second Edition shows you how to find out what's wrong with your PC and solve the problems yourself. You'll get expert tips for making your PC start up faster, keeping its hard drive in good shape, and updating Windows with the latest security fixes. This hands-on guide also explains how to protect your PC for free using Microsoft Security Essentials, use the Internet safely, and configure parental controls to protect your children both online and offline.
- Disable unnecessary startup items and boost virtual memory
- Defragment your PC's hard disk and reclaim wasted space
- Armor your PC against attacks, viruses, malware, and spyware
- Protect Windows by applying the latest patches and fixes
- Lock down your wired and wireless Internet and network connections against intruders
- Surf safely and reduce risks from e-mail, IM, and social networking
- Keep your children safe online
- Maximize your PC's memory and add external hard drives
- Upgrade to Windows 7 and transfer your files and settings
Guy Hart-Davis is the author of more than 70 computer books, including iPad and iPhone Administrator's Guide, Integrating Macs into Windows Networks, Mac OS X System Administration, and How to Do Everything: iPad and iTunes, Sixth Edition.
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- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 2 edition (November 3, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0071752919
- ISBN-13: 978-0071752916
- Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 7.1 x 8.8 inches
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This book saved me $600. It also made me the local computer whiz for all my relatives and neighbors...which is kind of a pain (so don't brag about what you learn...unless you want to start charging your grandparents and cousins).
First, I was so frustrated with my 3-year old Dell Inspiron that I planned on buying myself a new computer for Christmas. Before I did, I decided to take a $15 crack at curing my PC rather than putting it out of its misery. I picked this book because I loved the author's book on the iPhone (How to Do Everything...) -- everything was clear, concise, and didn't bog me down with tons of jargon and technical stuff.
This book is even more amazing - it was worth the price just for Chapter 1. The "10 things to do to speed up your computer" did *exactly* that! I spent about 3 hours following every step religiously. (If anyone would have told me that I'd be turning off "services" and "processes" and updating "drivers," I'd have told them they were crazy...but that's what I did. It was actually so simple, I was kind of embarassed I didn't know how to do it before.) Anyway, when I was finished, I rebooted...and what do you know -- my "new" computer was back. It was twice as fast as before. The next couple chapters made it even faster. (You should have seen all the junk that had clogged up the computer over the years -- now its ALL gone.)
I thought I knew all about the Internet, but man I was SO wrong. When was the last time you checked all your Internet Explorer settings? Yeah, me too...never. Well, now that someone explained what everything did and let me tailor it to my needs, I feel like I'm a lot safer on the big bad web.
Most people understand the benefits of a regular oil change, but how many understand the benefits of defragmenting a hard disk? Or the correct size of upgrade memory modules to buy? Or how to configure a firewall? Or knowing when a "virus alert" is real or fake? In "The Healthy PC", Guy Hart-Davis has taken on the challenge of instructing normal people in the kinds of computer maintenance tasks usually acquired by painful experience over years of frustration, or delegated in helpless fury to the household (or neighborhood) adolescent. There is a better way, says Hart-Davis, and here he lays it out: your home computer will run better and faster with the digital equivalent of a periodic oil change, and it's not difficult at all.
What slows a PC to an agonizing crawl, or makes it crash altogether? In general, it's the digital junk that collects over time: unnecessary, even malicious, background processes running without your knowledge; hard disks glutted with useless files; spyware, adware, even viruses or spam-bots. It all builds up like plaque, and "The Healthy PC" will help you blow it away without forcing you to obtain a degree in engineering in the process.
Hart-Davis starts off with the fundamentals of hard disk maintenance. The discussion is lucid and brief, quickly laying out the essentials. The tools needed are readily available right now on your machine and they are easy to use, but step-by-step instructions are provided anyway so that even the least experienced user can follow and get results. If you are lazy, it's possible to skip the explanations and just follow the numbered directions, although you'll miss quite a bit of useful insight if you do.