Leo Laporte's PC Help Desk

Nurse your PC back to health with a little help from Leo Laporte. Leo Laporte's PC Help Desk in a Book uses a unique, medical dictionary approach, complete with symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment for all of your common and not-so-common PC maladies. Flow-charts will help you correctly diagnose and treat such problems as:

• Windows installation woes
• Storage device tragedies
• Printer problems
• Pesky audio, video and general multimedia mayhem
• Keyboard and mouse afflictions
• Home networking headaches
• Core PC hardware issues
• Application failures
• Viruses, spyware and spam infections

Intended for the average home PC user, this quick reference suggests solutions for fixing Windows XP, storage device, printer, graphics, sound, multimedia, input device, internet, memory, processor, system performance, and power problems. Each chapter begins with a flowchart for locating the appropriate section, and provides some black and white screenshots and photographs. Annotation © 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Leo Laporte is a radio host on LA radio KFI AM 640 and co-hosts Call for Help on Canada's TechTV network. He also appears on programs including ABC's World News Now and Live with Regis and Kelly. He is the author of Leo Laporte's 2005 Gadget Guide, Leo Laporte's Mac Gadget Guide, Leo Laporte's Guide to TiVo, and Leo Laporte's 2005 Technology Almanac.

Mark Edward Soper is a longtime contributor to Upgrading and Repairing PCs,. Mark also authored Absolute Beginner's Guide to Home Networking, Absolute Beginner's Guide to A+ Certification and Absolute Beginner's Guide to Home Automation.