Troubleshooting Your PC

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Summary: This is a great book
Review: Given that this book is listed here as out of print, it many not matter much, but this is a great book. I'm prompted to write this review because of the two highly misleading negative reviews below. (Give me a break. Am I really to believe that two people from Chicago decided to write two reviews in two days with negative reviews, without the two being related? Sounds like the same guy wrote the two negative reviews, for I don't know what reason.)

I bought this book originally in its first edition, and found it extremely helpful, not just in solving specific problems covered in the book, but for a disuccsions that gives a highly useful approach for solving problems in general. This book is well written, easy to understand, and solves a whole bunch of specific problems that go way beyond "is it plugged it." (Yes, it covers the importance of checking basics too, but it goes way beyond that. I was looking it up here to buy copies for two friends who I thought could benefit from it, and am disappointed that it's out of print. If you can get your hands on it, it's well worth having.

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Summary: Great concept, outdated information.
Review: I found that although "Troubleshooting your PC..." was well written and had an excellent layout, that the information that it contained was already out of date.

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Summary: I Was Disappointed
Review: I picked up this book with the intention of using it for a good reference. Unfortunatuely this book lacks substance. Most problems start out with "Did you check the chord to see if its loose", don't get me wrong that alone fixes 50% of the problems, but I needed more. I enjoyed reading "Troubleshooting Your PC Bible" much more. Yes that book is bigger and a little dated, but it offers better solutions and its a better reference for when you really need help... As for this book, its going back.