This hands-on, step-by-step guide will lead the readers through the most frequently asked real world questions about PCs -- whether on new PCs, upgrading or the Internet. The reader learns the basics about drives, directories and file. He/she learns quickly the fundamentals about defragmentation, formatting, ScanDisk, disk compression and backups. This book will instruct the reader on email and the Internet, faxing and fax broadcasting as well as many software basics.