PC Help Desk in a Book: The Do-it-Yourself Guide to PC Troubleshooting and Repair

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Summary: A great help
Review: I had looked at this book for a long time, but delayed buying it. I finally bought it as a supplement to other, more technical books I have. It gives me the information I need without numbing my mind in geek-speak. During the first 24 hours after buying it, this book got me out of several difficult problems quickly and effortlessly. Surprisingly, it is not the diagnostic flow charts I have found most helpful, but the book's running text located by way of index entries has been the most helpful to me in solving the problems I had, one of which was the Blue Screen of Death related to the recognition of a hard drive on an OS installation.

Rating:
Summary: A great help
Review: I had looked at this book for a long time, but delayed buying it. I finally bought it as a supplement to other, more technical books I have. It gives me the information I need without numbing my mind in geek-speak. During the first 24 hours after buying it, this book got me out of several difficult problems quickly and effortlessly. Surprisingly, it is not the diagnostic flow charts I have found most helpful, but the book's running text located by way of index entries has been the most helpful to me in solving the problems I had, one of which was the Blue Screen of Death related to the recognition of a hard drive on an OS installation.

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Summary: I am not a friend of the author, but I praise him!!
Review: Mark Edward Soper, can you just kind of "pick up your shoe and I'll kiss the bottom?" I hold a BSEE, a MSEE and I am a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (2002). I cannot praise this author enough for this work, I have utilized his complete information from BIOS to preparing/formatting hard drives to troubleshooting the PC and it's subsystems from Windows 9x to XP all the way from A to Z. I can't thank the author enough, I wrote to him personally and thanked him. Thanks again!!

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Summary: I am not a friend of the author, but I praise him!!
Review: Mark Edward Soper, can you just kind of "pick up your shoe and I'll kiss the bottom?" I hold a BSEE, a MSEE and I am a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (2002). I cannot praise this author enough for this work, I have utilized his complete information from BIOS to preparing/formatting hard drives to troubleshooting the PC and it's subsystems from Windows 9x to XP all the way from A to Z. I can't thank the author enough, I wrote to him personally and thanked him. Thanks again!!

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Summary: Great Condensed Reference
Review: This is a superb reference for many PC troubleshooting topics. I can't wait until the next Second Edition is published. It is one of the most used references I have in my technical troubleshooting library.

Rating:
Summary: Great Condensed Reference
Review: This is a superb reference for many PC troubleshooting topics. I can't wait until the next Second Edition is published. It is one of the most used references I have in my technical troubleshooting library.

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Summary: Using a unique, medical dictionary approach
Review: When your personal computer suffer from buggy Windows installations, has bad cable connections, is plagued with mismanaged system resources, viruses, and/or slow Internet connections, don't be quick to toss it out! With a little knowledgeable care, your dysfunctional computer could with the help of Mark Soper's PC Help Desk In A Book: The Do-it-Yourself Guide To PC Troubleshooting and Repair, become useful again. Using a unique, medical dictionary approach, PC Help Desk In A Book walks users through the symptoms to diagnose and treat the problem. End-users will be armed to perform cost-effective upgrades, repair fouled Windows installations, and squeeze out a little more performance from a slow Internet connection in lieu of purchasing a new computer. 576 pp., User Level Beginner-to-Intermediate