E-Books
The Windows XP Survival Guide
Keep your XP system running for the long haul
With no new copies of Windows XP being sold by Microsoft, support for XP will start to decline. Fortunately, XP’s long run has produced a ton of collected wisdom: everything you need to keep your copy going strong and — when you’re ready — help you move on to the next version of Windows. If keeping XP running as long as possible is your goal, there are numerous steps you can take now to ensure a finely-tuned XP system for months — possibly years — to come.
The Windows Secrets editors have selected the best tips on Windows XP and created this concise guide, covering three major categories: Maintaining Windows XP; Troubleshooting XP; and Win7 and XP: Living in both worlds. Read more »
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The Windows 7 Guide Volume 1
Setting up, optimizing, and using your Win7 system
As with any version of Windows, there is so much information available that it can take some time to dig out exactly what you’re looking for, especially with a large topic like setting up Windows 7.The Windows 7 Guide doesn’t merely re-state what’s readily available in user manuals and common online sources. Rather, this information expands on, clarifies, and improves upon the standard information that you already have access to and know about.
In the Windows Secrets Windows 7 Setup Guide, you’ll learn better ways to: install or upgrade to Windows 7, optimize your new Win7 setup for safety and ease of use, and get up to speed, fast! Read more »
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The Windows 7 Guide Volume 2
Troubleshooting, tuning, and securing your Win7 System
Like Volume 1, The Windows 7 Guide Volume 2 doesn’t merely re-state what’s readily available in user manuals and common online sources. Rather, this information expands on, clarifies, and improves upon the standard information that you already have access to and know about.
In the Windows Secrets Windows 7 Tuning Guide, you’ll learn better ways totroubleshoot, tune, and secure your system! Read more »
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PC Security Guide
Best practices for safe, secure computing on the Web
For better or worse, more of our daily activities are spent on the Internet. We stay in touch with friends and family, post those fun vacation photos for all to see, check out the latest movies, look up interesting things to buy, and much more.
But we’re also putting more and more sensitive personal information on the Net, such as when we manage our online banking and investments, pay our bills, and purchase those movie tickets with our credit cards. That online activity comes with significant risk — and it’s a threat that’s becoming difficult to counter. Read more »
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PC Maintenance Guide
Simple effective tips for tuning, upgrading, & repairing your Windows PC
Over the years, Windows Secrets has accumulated a vast amount of information about Windows and Windows-related hardware and software. The PC Maintenance Guide is a concise e-book in which the most essential articles and links are collected into one, easy to use reference – saving you hours of digging through back issues.
The Windows Secrets editors pored through several years of published information and compiled the best tips from Fred Langa and the other Windows Secrets contributors. The guide covers three major categories: Upgrading your system; Tuning up/speeding up your PC; and Emergency troubleshooting. Read more »
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