Upgrading & Fixing Laptops DUMmIES

The arrival of high-speed USB allows laptops to have direct communication with devices including digital cameras, external hard ...

ports for, you can add a hubto split the port into additional connectors. A typical hub plugs in to the laptop at one end and of ...

Going Parallel and Serial: Disappearing Acts ........................................... A long, long time ago — at least a coup ...

From there, designers began to come up with more uses for the parallel port, including external hard drive, CD-ROM drives, and m ...

If your machine was delivered without a serial port, or if the built-in port fails, another option is to downshift directly from ...

If you have an actual parallel port on your laptop, check these things: Go to the Windows Control Panel. Start by checking with ...

Open your word processor or other program that uses the printer and check all of its settings. If you have no success with a te ...

with USB, you need to be running Windows 98SE or later versions (Windows 2000, ME, and XP). As with USB, IEEE 1394 breaks up dat ...

Part V The Software Side of Life 24_589598 pt05.qxd 9/29/05 3:03 PM Page 253 ...

In this part... W ithout getting too metaphysical here, one of the differences between a human being and a rock is that humans h ...

Chapter 17 Installing a New Operating System or Migrating Upwards In This Chapter
Starting anew with Windows XP
Making like a ...

(Norton Utilities, Norton AntiVirus, Norton CleanSweep, and Norton Password Manager.) I also make regular use of Diskeeper from ...

Before you begin upgrading, it is worthwhile to visit the support web site for your laptop manufacturer to look for an available ...

publication or printing at an 8×10-inch format, a single image can demand something like 22,355,878 bytes. For purposes of this ...

Starting fresh on an old drive ........................................................... You begin the Fresh Start upgrade wit ...

Install the new drive into the holding case, taking care to mate it with any plug adapters and lining it up with the same screw ...

Microsoft Windows XP CD-ROM Microsoft Windows 98 or 98SE startup disk Microsoft Windows Millennium startup disk Microsoft Wi ...

A fourth means of distribution of Windows is an OEM(original equipment manufacturer) copy that comes preinstalled on a new machi ...

If your copy of Windows was supplied to a large business or institution (including some government and educational organizations ...

end of the line. Among the reasons: Nearly all laptops and desktop PCs have a CD drive capable of holding at least 600MB of info ...