- Copyright
- About the Author
- Author's Acknowledgments
- Publisher's Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. Getting Ready to Upgrade
- 1. Start Here First
- 1.1. Determining When to Upgrade
- 1.2. Determining When You Shouldn't Upgrade
- 1.3. Upgrade Do's and Don'ts
- 1.3.1. Do upgrade one thing at a time
- 1.3.2. Do make a restore point before every upgrade
- 1.3.3. Do watch out for static electricity
- 1.3.4. Do hang on to your old boxes, manuals, warranties, and receipts
- 1.3.5. Don't force parts together
- 1.3.6. Don't bend cards
- 1.3.7. Don't rush yourself
- 1.3.8. Don't open up monitors or power supplies
- 1.4. Do Your Prep Work
- 2. Assembling Your Tools
- 1. Start Here First
- II. Making Your Computer Work Better
- 3. Keyboards, Mice, Game Controllers, and Monitors
- 3.1. Updating Your Keyboard
- 3.2. Making Way for a New Mouse
- 3.3. Upgrading Game Controllers
- 3.4. Replacing a Monitor
- 3.5. Installing a Keyboard
- 3.6. Installing or Replacing a Mouse
- 3.7. Installing or Replacing a Game Controller
- 3.8. Connecting a Monitor to a PC or Laptop
- 3.9. Connecting a TV to a PC or Laptop
- 3.10. Attaching a Second Monitor to a PC or Laptop
- 3.11. Adjusting Your Monitor's Settings
- 4. Printers and Scanners
- 5. Adding More Memory
- 6. Adding or Replacing a Hard Drive
- 6.1. Upgrading a Hard Drive
- 6.2. Installing a Portable Hard Drive
- 6.3. Backing Up Your Windows Drive with a System Image
- 6.4. Identifying Your PC's Drive Type
- 6.5. Upgrading or Replacing Your Windows Drive
- 6.6. Reinstalling Windows from a System Image
- 6.7. Adding a Second Internal Drive
- 6.8. Partitioning and Formatting a Second Internal Drive
- 6.9. Defragmenting a Hard Drive
- 6.10. Checking for Disk Errors
- 6.11. Extending a Partition to Fill a Drive
- 6.12. Setting an IDE Drive's Jumpers
- 7. Adding a DVD Drive
- 8. Fine-Tuning Your Computer's Sound
- 9. Beefing Up Your Computer's Video Card
- 10. Replacing the Power Supply or Laptop Battery
- 3. Keyboards, Mice, Game Controllers, and Monitors
- III. Teaching an Old Computer New Tricks
- 11. Creating a Home Theater with Windows 7's Media Center
- 11.1. Buying a TV Tuner
- 11.2. Identifying the Cables and Connectors on Your Computer's Television Tuner and Your TV
- 11.3. Installing a USB TV Tuner
- 11.4. Finding Your PC's PCI-Express 1x and PCI Slots
- 11.5. Installing an Internal TV Tuner
- 11.6. Connecting Your TV Signal to Your Computer
- 11.7. Connecting Your Computer's High-Quality Sound to Your Home Theater
- 12. Upgrading a Computer for Editing Movies
- 13. Repurposing an Old Computer
- 13.1. Adding a Second Monitor to Your New Computer
- 13.2. Creating a Portable Hard Drive from Your Old Hard Drive
- 13.3. Removing the Old Hard Drive and Adding It to Your Main Computer
- 13.4. Turning Your Old Computer into a Backup Unit
- 13.5. Cleansing Your Old Computer's Personal Information Before Passing It On
- 11. Creating a Home Theater with Windows 7's Media Center
- IV. Communications
- 14. Adding or Replacing a Modem
- 15. Linking Computers with a Network
- 15.1. Choosing the Right Networking Equipment
- 15.2. Buying the Right Parts for Your Network
- 15.3. Installing Wired or Wireless Network Adapters
- 15.4. Connecting Your Router to Your Wired Computers and Modem
- 15.5. Setting Up a Wireless Router
- 15.6. Setting Up Windows 7 Computers to Connect to a Wireless Network
- 15.7. Connecting to and Sharing Files with Older Computers on Your Network
- 16. Filtering Out Evil with Firewalls
- V. Introducing Parts to Windows
- 17. Hiring the Right Driver for Windows
- 17.1. Choosing a Compatible Driver
- 17.2. Discovering Whether You're Running a 32-Bit or 64-Bit Version of Windows
- 17.3. Automatically Installing a New Driver
- 17.4. Running a Driver's Installation Program
- 17.5. Installing Drivers That Refuse to Install
- 17.6. Finding a New Driver
- 17.7. Updating an Old Driver
- 17.8. Rolling Back to an Earlier Driver
- 18. Installing or Upgrading to Windows 7
- 18.1. Understanding Windows 7's Hardware Requirements
- 18.2. Choosing between 32-Bit and 64-Bit Windows 7
- 18.3. Running Windows 7's Upgrade Advisor
- 18.4. Upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7
- 18.5. Installing Windows 7 over Windows XP or onto an Empty Hard Drive
- 18.6. Upgrading to a Better Version of Windows 7 on a Netbook
- 19. Troubleshooting and Fixing Windows 7
- 19.1. Installing and Running Microsoft Security Essentials Antivirus Software
- 19.2. Running Older Programs Well in Windows 7
- 19.3. Installing Windows XP Mode to Run Incompatible Windows XP Programs
- 19.4. Freeing up Disk Space with Disk Cleanup
- 19.5. Making a Windows 7 System Repair Disc
- 19.6. Troubleshooting Problems and Boosting Your Computer's Performance
- 20. Moving from the Old Computer to the New Computer
- 17. Hiring the Right Driver for Windows
- VI. The Part of Tens
- 21. Ten Ways to Find Help Online
- 22. Ten Cheap Fixes to Try First
- 22.1. Plug It In
- 22.2. Turn Off the Part, Wait 30 Seconds, and Turn It On
- 22.3. Install a New Driver
- 22.4. Google the Error Message
- 22.5. Find and Remove Malware
- 22.6. Avoid Viruses by Not Opening Unexpected Attachments
- 22.7. Run System Restore
- 22.8. Check for Overheating
- 22.9. Install a New Power Supply
- 22.10. Run Check Disk
- A. The Rathbone Reference of Fine Ports
- A.1. USB (Universal Serial Bus)
- A.2. FireWire (Also IEEE 1394 or Sony i.LINK)
- A.3. E-SATA
- A.4. HDMI
- A.5. Standard VGA Video Port
- A.6. Flat-Panel LCD Video Port (DVI)
- A.7. Ethernet (RJ-45)
- A.8. Telephone (RJ-11)
- A.9. Stereo Sound
- A.10. Coaxial Cable
- A.11. RCA (Composite)
- A.12. Optical/Toslink
- A.13. The Legacy Devices
In this part . . .
Those of you with sharp eyes will notice something scandalous about this part right away: One chapter doesn't contain ten items.
But by the time most people get to this part of the book, they're tired of counting numbers, anyway. That's why these lists aren't numbered. They're just a bunch of facts tossed into a basket.
So when you read these chapters, remember that it's quality, not quantity that matters. Besides, would you want to read a tip about 8255 PPI (U20) messages just because one of the chapters in this part needed a tenth tip?
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