- Packed with crisp black-and-white photographs and illustrations, this bestselling guide walks people step by step through all aspects of troubleshooting, upgrading, and repairing a PC
- Includes an all-new chapter on "Working Outside the Box," which focuses on external communication devices and controllers
- Covers hardware upgrades and repair–memory, hard drives, CD and DVD drives, video cards, monitors, USB connections, modems, routers, and more–as well as tools for diagnosing and fixing software problems, including antivirus software, diagnostic programs, and system restore and driver update utilities
- The CD-ROM includes essential video clips of the most common Fix-Your-Own techniques and hard-to-find information on older machines as well as a searchable PDF version of the book, making the book valuable to owners of both old and new machines
