PC Annoyances How to Fix the Most Annoying Things About Your Personal Computer

In every PC user's life, there's a point when desperate measures must be taken. Some push their PC off a pier or chuck it into a landfill. Others turn their former computing ally into a planter box. But don't give up on your PC yet-help is at hand. This easy-to-read, accessible book from PC World expert Steve Bass covers a broad expanse of PC gripes and gremlins, with fixes for everything from Windows glitches to browsers that won't browse. These tips and tricks are served up in bite-sized portions for quick reading and even quicker fixing. Among the topics covered: * Windows-King of Annoyances! You'll learn how to kick Windows in the rear, get past glitches, take charge of the interface, live with the dreaded activation, and more. * Conquer your email, from Outlook to Eudora. Beat back spam, get inside info, avoid mailing lists, send big files, manage folders, and more, with instructions for half a dozen email programs. * Master Microsoft Office. From little-known right-click wonders to backing up the unbackable to automating data entry, you'll find workarounds for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. * Wrassle with hardware-and win! Learn to wake up your DSL, tame your notebook, shut up your PC's fan, save your data, and conserve paper. * Untie Internet knots. Shake up IE, stop Flash, outsmart defaults, control Favorites, add the Google toolbar to Netscape, and more. Plus, you get over 100 utilities (accessible via www.oreilly.com/pcannoyances) that will help you squash bugs, enhance your email, untangle a system snarl, and much more. If your PC has ever annoyed you (do we see several billion raised hands?), PC Annoyances is for you. With the flip of a page or two, you can fix that faux pas and have your PC purring again.Bass, Steve is the author of 'PC Annoyances How to Fix the Most Annoying Things About Your Personal Computer', published 2003 under ISBN 9780596005931 and ISBN 0596005938.