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.