Upgrading & Fixing Laptops DUMmIES

worse is spyware,which can range from harmless but invasive programs that report information about your Internet activities back ...

Adware can be intrusive; spyware can take all of the fun out of being online. The first line of defense against both is to be ve ...

Be sure to update the adware/spyware software regularly to keep a step ahead of new or changed programs. I recommend running the ...

288 Part V: The Software Side of Life ...

Chapter 19 Chapter 19: Essential Utilities for Laptop Users......................................................... In This Cha ...

The issue of undeleting a file was a pretty important one: In the original versions of DOS, it was very easy to make a mistake t ...

It took many years before Microsoft added its own undelete and defragmen- tation (defragger) utilities to DOS and then to Window ...

Microsoft Steps In ........................................................................................ Over the years the f ...

If you commit an “oops” and delete a file you meant to keep, or if you want to try to find an earlier version of a file that had ...

Diskeeper is an example of a company that has decided to specialize in just a few products and do them especially well. I have n ...

Doing a full cavity search .................................................................. The third essential utility is som ...

Every Friday at 5:30 p.m. I usually devote an hour or so to clearing my desk and preparing for the next week. At precisely that ...

Try to get in the habit of shutting off any background programs and discon- necting from the Internet before running a defragger ...

One of the best solutions I know of is Sound Forge software from Sony. This product is available in a full professional version ...

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In this part... T en, count ‘em, ten quick solutions to big problems. Ten essential dos and don’ts for laptop users. And ten of ...

Chapter 20 Chapter 20: Ten Quick Solutions .................................................................................. In ...

the ground first, it can be cracked or completely broken off its hinges. If that happens, you’re not going to find a solution in ...

You Spill a Cup of Coffee/Soda/Water on Your Keyboard ....................... Didn’t your mother teach you how to keep your room ...

You Smell Something Burning .................................................................... This is not good news, but it m ...