Consumers with questions about upgrading their PCs get them answered in this practical, easy-to-understand guide--updated to cover the latest operating systems, partitioning software and DVD drives. The book has also been reorganized to make it more accessible to beginners, and a detailed Glossary and manufacturers' reference have been added.

Grimes shows how to give your PC a diagnostics test, add more memory, replace the motherboard or processor, replace the floppy disk drive, and connect to the Internet at top speed with a new modem. With the help of this compact tutorial, readers will be able to upgrade to a newer, more powerful operating system.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Upgrading and Repairing PCs, Fourth Edition, teaches you how to upgrade your PC peripherals to increase productivity on your PC, without intimidating or offending you. A straight-forward, conversational tone provides basic information in purchasing and installing the newest technology for multimedia and more. You will learn how various software applications and operating systems upgrades can help you use or not use your PC more efficiently. This book gives you the foundation on what a PC is and how to upgrade it in everyday language.

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with your PC. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon the previous one, allowing you to learn the essentials about your PC from the ground up.

Unlike most beginning level PC books, which focus on hardware descriptions and stodgy explanations of terminology, this guide gives new users hands-on training. A task-oriented approach shows user how to perform basic PC operations with Windows and covers the latest operating systems, disk and file management, maintenance, Internet usage, and more. CD includes Shareware, MP3 players and encoders, 50+ songs, and long non-music work.