Presents ten minute lessons on upgrading a PC, including adding memory, replacing the motherboard, and installing a sound card.

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 step-by-step lessons in this book guide readers through the topics they need to upgrade and fix PCs. Learning tools include question-and-answer sections, quizzes and exercises.

This guide will answer the need of people who want basic computer information so they can make an intelligent buying decision, without having to read a 400-page book. The tutorial covers the most important issues to consider when buying a computer, in approximately 20 mini-tutorials--each of which can be completed in 10 minutes or less.

Offers information on the Q&A, version 4, word processing and database operations package. It adopts a format of 15 to 20 short task-by-task lessons, each establishing a goal that can be achieved in 10 minutes. Topics covered include TimeSaver tips, Plain English definitions and more.