The PC Doctor's Fix-It-Yourself Guide (Paperback)

Part I: Overview

1 What’s What-the Anatomy of a PC

2 Files and Folders

3 Improving on Perfection

4 Safe Computing

5 Helping Yourself

6 What You Need to Fix-It-Yourself-and Stay Safe

Part II: The Details: Hardware

7 The PC Case and the Power Supply

8 Motherboard, RAM, CPU, and BIOS

9 Hard Drives and Floppy Drives

10 Other Data Storage Devices

11 Monitors and Graphics Adapters

12 Expansion Cards

13 Networking

14 Connections

15 Input Devices

Part III: The Details: Software and Data

16 File System Care

17 Backup

18 Improving Performance and Stability

19 Making More of the Internet

Part IV: Appendixes

Appendix A Glossary of Common PC Terms and Abbreviations

Appendix B Websites

Appendix C Tools

Appendix D Common File Extensions