Tame Your Personal Computer Ebook

About The Author Teresa King

Teresa King is the author of several ebooks which range from marketing to historical romances. She enjoys teaching and helping people to keep their minds alert and to inspire them to do the best they can in life. Teresa has learned many of life's lessons. Sometimes she learned the really hard way and other times she got lucky because someone took the time to teach her, or she found what she needed to know in ebooks.

Family is important to her. She has three grandchildren, two boys 4, almost 2, and one granddaughter 4.

She plays online bridge in her spare time and enjoys walks, nature, crossword puzzles, reading, and conversing with friends and her family and loves her computer.

Although she makes her living online, her latest endeavor is starting a soap wrapping business.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. YOUR PC
HOW TO CREATE FOLDERS?
2. HOW TO START AND SHUTDOWN YOUR PC
TO SHUT DOWN YOUR COMPUTER:

• To restart:
• Starting the computer

RESTARTING YOUR COMPUTER IN SAFE MODE
3. PASSWORD PROTECTION
4. SEARCH/FIND FILES ON YOUR PC

• In Windows XP:
• In Windows 2000:

5. IMAGE CONVERSION

• Conversion rules:
• Why we need to convert images from one format to another?

6. WEB BROWSER
7. ELECTRONIC MAIL (EMAIL)
HOW TO DEAL WITH JUNK MAIL / SPAM?

• Blocking Spam In Outlook Express:

8. CREATING AND MANAGING FOLDERS IN OUTLOOK EXPRESS
9. BACK UP FILES
10. DOWNLOADING, NAMING, & SAVING FILES
11. ZIPPING AND UNZIPPING FILES

• To open a Zip file using WinZip:

To zip a file using WinZip:
12. SEARCHING DATA ON THE INTERNET

• The most popular search engines:

13. THE DANGERS OF MAIL ATTACHMENTS
14. VIRUS PROTECTION
15. SPYWARE

• Some options to deal with Spyware nuisance:

16. SAVING FILES TO DISKS
TO SAVE FILES IN THE FLOPPY DISK:
17. UPGRADING YOUR BROWSER
18. UPGRADING YOUR PC

• UPGRADING THE RAM:
• UPGRADING THE HARD DRIVE:
• CPU UPGRADE:
• PORTS:
• MOTHERBOARD:

19. MEMORY PROBLEMS
20. HOT CPU?

• Temperature Regulation:

21. DEFRAGMENTATION
HOW TO DE-FRAGMENT A DRIVE:
22. CLEANING TIPS FOR YOUR PC

• Mouse
• Keyboard
• Monitor
• Printer
• Computer Case
• CD-ROM and other Drives

23. SLUGGISH PC
24. TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS
YOUR SYSTEM HANGS

• Documents are smudged with ink
• problems in printing a document.

25. WARN YOUR CHILDREN
FREQUENTLY USED KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
NET ETIQUETTE
EXERCISE

• To protect your neck and back:

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