Nurse your PC back to health with a little help from Leo Laporte. Leo Laporte's PC Help Desk in a Book uses a unique, medical dictionary approach, complete with symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment for all of your common and not-so-common PC maladies. Flow-charts will help you correctly diagnose and treat such problems as:

• Windows installation woes

• Storage device tragedies

• Printer problems

• Pesky audio, video and general multimedia mayhem

• Keyboard and mouse afflictions

• Home networking headaches

• Core PC hardware issues

• Application failures

• Viruses, spyware and spam infections

Don't waste time digging through paperwork only to find a tech-support line that is going to cost you an arm and a leg to cure your PC's ailments. Make your own house calls instead with Leo Laporte's PC Help Desk in a Book.

Leo Laporte is the former host of two shows on TechTVThe Screen Savers and Call for Help. Leo is a weekend radio host on Los Angeles radio KFI AM 640 and co-hosts Call for Help on Canada's TechTV network. He also appears regularly on many other television and radio programs, including ABC's World News Now and Live with Regis and Kelly as "The Gadget Guy." He is the author of four recent bestsellers: Leo Laporte's 2005 Gadget Guide, Leo Laporte's Mac Gadget Guide, Leo Laporte's Guide to TiVo, and Leo Laporte's 2005 Technology Almanac.

Mark Edward Soper has taught computer troubleshooting and other technical subjects to thousands of students from Maine to Hawaii since 1992.

He is a longtime contributor to Upgrading and Repairing PCs, working on the 11th through 16th Editions. He has contributed chapters to Upgrading and Repairing Networks Second Edition, Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, and Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows XP (both Home and Pro editions).