Chapter 6. Troubleshooting
Most Windows users would probably consider the barrage of
incomprehensible error messages and crashing to be the operating system's
biggest annoyance, and I'd be the last one to argue with them. But the problems
that plague our computers vary widely from simple features not working to
massive data loss, with a whole range of annoying quirks in between.
No single resource could possibly document every bug and
every error message produced by Windows and every possible combination of
drivers and applications, and this chapter is no exception. Instead, the topics
in this chapter show you how to troubleshoot your Windows system by isolating
the problem and then using the tools available to find a solution.
First off, if you remember only two pearls of wisdom from
this chapter, let them be the following:
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99% of all computer problems are solved by pressing your
computer's Reset button.
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Insanity can be defined as repeating the same actions over
and over again, expecting different results. (Or, worse: repeating the same
actions over and over again, knowing that
you'll never get different results.)
Naturally, a corollary to these principles is that resetting
your computer repeatedly will get you nowhere. Herein lies the rub: what do you
do during that remaining 1% of the time when restarting your computer doesn't
help?
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