Self Help Guides

Welcome to Appleton Computers new and exciting self help guide section, this will give practical and simple advice to PC users on how to fix some of the commonly experienced problems and get back up and running quickly and effectively.  These guides will build on the 'staying safe' online tips that was launched in 2006. We are publishing these guides which are based many years of experience and in effort to help users get the most out of their computers, the internet and hopefully reduce the number of frustrated users out there.  You will notice adverts on the completed pages, these help cover the costs of hosting this site and Appleton Computers in no way accept any responsibility for the content or products offered by the Google Ads.

Currently Planned topics include:

• Guide to transferring your data files from your old computer to your new one just released 27th April 2007 see here Transfer.
• Antivirus and spyware guide.
• Step by step guide to using System Restore in Windows XP and Windows Millennium edition.
• Wireless networking - How to Secure your network and maximise it's range.
• Guide to home networking (wireless or cabled) to allow printer or file sharing.
• How to backup your data and protect yourself from hardware or software failures.
• All you need to know about Windows Vista.
• PC buyers guide - how to choose the right machine and not waste your money.
• Odds and Sods - this will be a repository of common problems come across in real life with details of the fix, this particularly we would welcome input from users, this can done by e-mailing us a specific request and we wil add it to the list.
• Changing Internet Service Providers and how to setup Outlook Express when you change e-mail providers.
• End of Life Equipment Disposal Guide.

We plan to release guides at the rate of one per week commencing 1st May 2007, if there is anything specifically you would like us to cover then I am soory but this section is no longer being updated

Thanks

Appleton Computers