Upgrading & Fixing Laptops DUMmIES

Just as with the Add Hardware Wizard, if a piece of software comes with its own installation and removal utility, you’re always ...

Keyboard.Here you can check the operation of your built-in keyboard and set some preferences, including character repeat rate a ...

that a piece of hardware isn’t working because of an IRQ or DMA conflict, you have to either disable that component or seek the ...

Your goal here, though, is to burrow a few levels deeper into the Control Panel. Choose the Hardware tab and then click the Devi ...

guess the machine doesn’t really care, but it’s programmed to raise a flag if it finds two or more devices that just might ask f ...

Batteries Here you find information about the hardware side of the battery charger. You also learn about the software side, incl ...

decipher the code name by plugging it in as the object of your search engine, or you may have to call the disk drive or laptop m ...

The Appearancetab allows users to customize the appearance of Windows including colors, effects (such as fading or scrolling ty ...

laptop manages the functions and drivers for a PC Card, a quick and relatively easy way to add new features using a credit-card- ...

on how you configured your machine, System Restore makes a record of set- tings every day, as well as anytime a new piece of sof ...

To load System Restore, click Start➪Accessories➪System Tools➪ System Restore. On the left side of the panel you see an option fo ...

76 Part II: Explaining What Could Possibly Go Wrong ...

Chapter 6 Brain Matters: Memory, Microprocessors, and BIOS In This Chapter
Thinking about computers
Pushing the boundaries of ...

The computer equivalent of human memory is its storage system, which can consist of a hard drive, a floppy disk drive, a CD or D ...

rules designed by programmers, and some advanced designs can even “learn” new rules and adapt existing ones based on experience ...

For the record, according to Microsoft and Intel, today’s operating systems and processors demand at least 64MB of RAM; the mach ...

The very first IBM PC, like the one that holds down the floor in the back closet of my office, was introduced with a base memory ...

Your machine might instead be designed to require memory expansion as one bank of two; that means two available slots are organi ...

Having too much of a good thing ....................................................... Can you have too much memory? Ah, anothe ...

Doing the very least you can do ......................................................... Nearly all modern laptops have an easi ...