Master VISUALLY Optimizing PC Performance [Paperback]

Joe Kraynak (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764577875 | ISBN-13: 978-0764577871 | Publication Date: February 4, 2005 | Edition: 1

* Offers step-by-step instructions for more than 190 optimizing tasks, including streamlining a Start menu, preventing unnecessary programs from wasting memory, improving monitor performance, and printing faster and more efficiently
* The ideal resource for intermediate to advanced visual learners who want to speed up a dragging computer, understand how to prevent bottlenecks in the future, and enhance network performance and reliability
* Addresses how to identify and troubleshoot common problems and how to check and protect a PC from viruses
* Explores different tools to get the job done and looks at which ones are best suited for different tasks
* Includes an explanation of how to assemble a collection of essential freeware and shareware utilities and get optimum performance with hardware upgrades

Editorial Reviews

Review

“…generously illustrated with hundreds of annotated screen shots…” (PC Utilities, March 2005)

From the Back Cover

"One picture is worth a thousand words." If you prefer instructions that show you how rather than tell you why, then this intermediate to advanced level reference is for you. Hundreds of succinctly captioned, step-by-step screen shots reveal how to perform more than 175 tasks that produce optimal PC performance, including:

• Installing and running diagnostic software
• Testing Internet connection speed
• Backing up and restoring files
• Uninstalling unused programs
• Converting a drive to NTFS format
• Installing a memory optimizer
• Cleaning the Windows Registry

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Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Visual; 1 edition (February 4, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764577875
• ISBN-13: 978-0764577871
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 1.1 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #995,230 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #99 in Books > Computers & Technology > Hardware > Maintenance, Repair & Upgrading

More About the Author

Joe Kraynak has authored and coauthored numerous informative and easy-to-use books, including Take the Mic, Stage a Poetry Slam, Flipping Houses For Dummies, Foreclosure Self-Defense For Dummies, Financing Real Estate Investments For Dummies, 52 Weeks of Sales Success, Foreclosure Investing For Dummies, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Computer Basics, and Google Simplified: Top 100 Tips & Tricks.

He specializes in teaming up with prominent specialists in various fields to present their knowledge, experience, and insight to consumers in an easily accessible format. Over the course of his career, he has collaborated with experts in real estate (Ralph R. Roberts), psychiatry (Candida Fink, MD), food allergies (Robert A. Wood, MD), slam poetry (Marc Kelly Smith), mortgage lending (Chip Cummings), and mortgage fraud (Rachel Dollar).

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for the average Joe!, February 23, 2005

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D. W. Shuffler "usbanalyst" (Central UT USA) - See all my reviews
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Another good book in the Master Visually series. Even as a computer tech I found this book very informative. The average non-geek computer user out there will find plenty of ways to tune and tweak their machine without doing any harm to the computer or themselves. Just follow basic instructions. Most high end techies will find this book pretty basic but it is a book I can recommend to my clients. I'm not a book reviewer but once again it can be said that "a picture is worth a thousand words"!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Product, October 9, 2005

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Martin I. Johnson "Marty" (Binghamton, NY) - See all my reviews
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This book gives me insight into knowing how to keep my computer running efficiently. It shows me ways of doing what is needed to maintain my computer so that I use it. The color graphics are a helpful part of this book. They help show me what the wording of the text is saying to me. This book is a refernce guide that everyone should have. To know how to care for your computer is highly important these days. This book shows me how to do just that. This book shows me how to get more out of my computer than if I didn't have this book. I love this book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book for curious beginners, November 2, 2008

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Dorbel Tweeter "Howdy!" (Burnsville NC USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Master VISUALLY Optimizing PC Performance (Paperback)

I think these are useful books for beginners. Many (but not all) of the "Teach Yourself Visually" series books are good -- check reviews first on the one you are considering. This one ("Master Visually" Optimizing PC Performance) is a good one for beginners who get curious about such things.