Legal Disclaimers......Page 2 Components That Make Up Your Computer......Page 6 How To Add Random Access Memory To Speed Up Your Desktop......Page 8 Install More RAM In Your Laptop For More Speed......Page 11 How to Easily and Safely Install RAM......Page 13 How To Troubleshoot RAM Memory......Page 15 Memory Testing Software Utilities......Page 17 Get More Computer Storage By Installing A Larger Hard Drive......Page 19 Here's How To Replace A DVD Drive In Your Laptop......Page 21 Installing A Sound Card The Easy Way......Page 27 Installing The Sound Card......Page 28 Replace The System Unit Cover......Page 30 Can You Install A New Sound Card In Laptops?......Page 32 Installing a USB Sound Card in Your Laptop......Page 33 Quick and Easy Sound Card Problem Solving......Page 34 General Computer Troubleshooting......Page 36 How To Revive A Dead Computer......Page 42 Make Sure You Have Enough Memory......Page 45 Uninstall Those Unneeded Applications To Free Up Memory......Page 46 Patch Your Computer To Keep It Updated......Page 47 Make Sure Your Antivirus/Internet Security Programs Run at Night......Page 48 Stop Unneeded Startup Programs......Page 49 Remove Those Unneeded Files......Page 51 Stop File Indexing......Page 52 Turn Off Animations......Page 53 Turn Off Fancy Desktop Backgrounds, and Screensavers......Page 54 ReadyBoost for Vista Speeds Boot Times and Other Operations......Page 55 Change Your PC Use Habits......Page 56 Have Your PC health Assessed for Free at PC Pitstop......Page 57 How To Upgrade Your Graphics Card......Page 58 Installing The Graphics Card In The System Unit......Page 59 AGP Graphics Card......Page 60 Nothing on the Monitor......Page 61 Monitor Works But Poor Display......Page 62 Easily Installing Your New Hard Drive......Page 64 General Hard Drive Troubleshooting......Page 69 Check Drive Cables and Connections......Page 70 If the Drive Boots but Hangs Up at Boot?......Page 71 Your Hard Drive may have an IRQ Conflict......Page 73 Your Hard Drive Device Drives Causing Problems......Page 74 What To Do When Windows Won't Boot......Page 75 Making a Windows XP Bootable Floppy, if You Still Have a Floppy Drive......Page 76 If The PC Won't Boot Past Windows......Page 77 Here's How To Replace A DVD Drive In Your Laptop......Page 79 How To Repair Cable, DSL, And Dial-Up Modem Problems......Page 82 A Direct Subscriber Line ( DSL ) Modem......Page 83 An Older Dial-Up Modem......Page 85 Tips On Surviving An Operating System Crash......Page 88 So Just What is a Hard Drive Crash?......Page 89 Here's How You Can Recover From a Hard Drive Crash......Page 92 Following These Steps To Recover Your Hard Drive......Page 93
