Nurse your PC back to health with a little help from Leo Laporte.Leo Laporte's PC Help Desk in a Bookuses a unique, medical dictionary approach, complete with symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment for all of your common and not-so-common PC maladies. Flow-charts will help you correctly diagnose and treat such problems as: Windows installation woes Storage device tragedies Printer problems Pesky audio, video and general multimedia mayhem Keyboard and mouse afflictions Home networking headaches Core PC hardware issues Application failures Viruses, spyware and spam infections Don't waste time digging through paperwork only to find a tech-support line that is going to cost you an arm and a leg to cure your PC's ailments. Make your own house calls instead withLeo Laporte's PC Help Desk in a Book.

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