Learn routine maintenance as well as desktop basics, hard drive care and defragmentation, and plenty more to make your PC more efficient and keep it running smoothly. Learn software management, tame the Internet, secure your machine, deal with downloads, and much more. Author Robert J. Shimonski is an instructor at the Computer Career Center in Long Island, NY.

Table of Contents

Part I Getting to know your PC: what is Windows? picking what you need; getting around, "your guide to simple navigation"; taming the system, "implementing control"; Part II System maintenance (software): maintaining the system, "manage your software"; maintaining the system, "the scary stuff"; your new friend - the internet; red alert - pc not secure!; Part III System maintenance (hardware): maintaining the system, "manage your hardware"; strengthen the system, "adding new hardware"; peripherals - adding new arms and legs to your PC; Part IV Troubleshooting your system: how to avoid tech support, my PC crashed, what now?

About the Author

Robert J. Shimonski (East Meadow, NY) [Truesecure TICSA, Cisco CCDP, CCNP, Nortel NNCSS, Microsoft MCSE, MCP+I, Novell Master CNE, CIP, CIBS, IWA CWP, Dell CSE, Prosoft MCIW, SANS GSEC, GCIH, CompTIA Server+, Network+, Inet+, A+, e-Biz+, Symantec SPS and NAI Sniffer SCP] is a Lead Network and Security Engineer for a leading manufacturing company as well as a part time instructor and trainer. Robert is known for his troubleshooting skills, being able to find and resolve problems very quickly and bringing them to successful resolution. Robert has spent many years as a System Engineer building solutions with Microsoft, Novell, Linux and Apple solutions as well as having them all integrated as well. He has spent time as a developer and most recently as a full-fledged Web designer using technologies such as JavaScript, Flash, XML and scripting with Perl. Robert is the author of many articles and published books on a wide variety of many products and services revolving around information technology.