Book Review - Leo Laporte's PC Help Desk by Leo Laporte and Mark Edward Soper
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Troubleshooting books are like insurance policies... They may sit on your shelf for a long time, but if you have a broken PC, you want it to be there. The Que book Leo Laporte's PC Help Desk by Leo Laporte and Mark Edward Soper is a nice mix of troubleshooting and knowledge transfer...
Contents: PC Anatomy 101; Troubleshooting Windows and Windows Applications; Troubleshooting Storage Devices; Troubleshooting Your Printer; Troubleshooting Graphics and Sound Problems; Troubleshooting Multimedia and Imaging Devices; Troubleshooting I/O Ports and Input Devices; Troubleshooting Your Network and Internet Connections; Troubleshooting Memory, Processor, and System Performance Problems; Troubleshooting Flowcharts; Index
This book has some nice features. The appendix of Troubleshooting Flowcharts has excellent information on how best to go about troubleshooting in general, followed by flowcharts of general areas that can give a PC owner headaches. It's written in language easy enough for most PC users to follow without getting bogged down in terminology, while also guiding a knowledgeable user in the right direction. Each of the other chapters also do a very nice job of giving the reader extensive information about how something works (like graphic cards) with a slant towards being able to resolve issues that could very well rear their ugly head. It's almost worth reading the book from front to back *before* you have a problem just so you have the basic understanding before you need it.
If you don't have a basic troubleshooting book in your personal library (and if you're a Windows PC user), you should have. And this book would be a worthy choice to fill that gap...
Troubleshooting books are like insurance policies... They may sit on your shelf for a long time, but if you have a broken PC, you want it to be there. The Que book Leo Laporte's PC Help Desk by Leo Laporte and Mark Edward Soper is a nice mix of troubleshooting and knowledge transfer...
Contents: PC Anatomy 101; Troubleshooting Windows and Windows Applications; Troubleshooting Storage Devices; Troubleshooting Your Printer; Troubleshooting Graphics and Sound Problems; Troubleshooting Multimedia and Imaging Devices; Troubleshooting I/O Ports and Input Devices; Troubleshooting Your Network and Internet Connections; Troubleshooting Memory, Processor, and System Performance Problems; Troubleshooting Flowcharts; Index
This book has some nice features. The appendix of Troubleshooting Flowcharts has excellent information on how best to go about troubleshooting in general, followed by flowcharts of general areas that can give a PC owner headaches. It's written in language easy enough for most PC users to follow without getting bogged down in terminology, while also guiding a knowledgeable user in the right direction. Each of the other chapters also do a very nice job of giving the reader extensive information about how something works (like graphic cards) with a slant towards being able to resolve issues that could very well rear their ugly head. It's almost worth reading the book from front to back *before* you have a problem just so you have the basic understanding before you need it.
If you don't have a basic troubleshooting book in your personal library (and if you're a Windows PC user), you should have. And this book would be a worthy choice to fill that gap...
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