Installing Windows and Fixing Common Problems

About this ebook

What you will learn

Learn to back up a computer, make an official Windows USB installer and install Windows cleanly with the right drivers and updates. The book then shows how to speed up a slow PC, repair a computer that will not start, understand blue screens, fix network faults, remove malware and keep a proper job sheet for every repair.

Who it is for

Hardware students, technicians and confident home users.

Chapters

Contents

1. Chapter 1: Before you start: back up and check
2. Chapter 2: Making a bootable USB, and UEFI or legacy
3. Chapter 3: Installing Windows step by step
4. Chapter 4: Drivers, Device Manager and Windows Update
5. Chapter 5: Activation and user accounts
6. Chapter 6: Task Manager and a slow PC
7. Chapter 7: When Windows will not start
8. Chapter 8: Blue screens: reading stop codes
9. Chapter 9: Fixing network problems
10. Chapter 10: Removing malware
11. Chapter 11: Reset this PC and the technician's job sheet

Inside

At the end of the book

• Practice questions. To check what you have learnt, with the answers after them.
• Glossary. The key words of the book, each explained in one sentence.
• Easy English. Short sentences and everyday words, with each new word explained the first time.

How to use it

Reading, printing and sharing

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Courses

Courses this book supports

Students of these courses also find the book in the student portal, with the other ebooks for their course.

• Hardware and networkingHardware & Networking · About the course
• PC maintenanceHardware & Networking · About the course