General Macintosh maintenance
This is the site for Thomas Cook's Computer Troubleshooting Tips.  Here you will find help for most Mac troubles.

Rebuilding your desktop
At this site, New South Wales Country Area Programs, you will be able to find step by step directions for fixing/rebuilding/installing items on your desktop!

Fixing your Mac computer
At this site, Macfixit, click on the library icon at the home page for this site, you will find a collection of trouble-shooting related freeware and shareware utilities along with recent software updates.

Apple Support Index
Here at the Apple website you find an alphabetized index for any and every problem you might come across with your Mac.  Also you will find great links for what's new, how and where to buy a Mac in the US.

Apple downloads
Also at the Apple website your can find all kinds of items to download to your computer including language codes, new software, older software, automatic software updates, and software download help.

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At Science Quest for Macintosh, you will find many tools for Mac users.  This site includes a variety of information and programs that will be helpful for you.

After looking through the web site I found several utilities that are important to the trouble free use of your mac.

1.  DiskWarrior is the highest rated Mac disk repair utility.  It repairs disks and can prevent damage to your disks before it occurs!

2.  Trash*Desktop is Drag&Drop utility for rebuilding the Desktop of any disk.

3.  DiskExpress Pro is a safe, efficient program used as a disk optimizer and is available for any computer.  It is used to speed up your current Macintosh hard disk.

4.  VirusScan Online is an easy, convenient way to protect your computer from viruses.  VirusScan Online automatically checks for virus updates and software upgrades.  VirusScan also has automatic file cleaning and scheduled scanning.

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"Tips, Tricks, and Traps" of PC's; are found at this site including system components and assembly.
 

PC Tech guide This is a guide to what's happening inside your computer and how it all works!
 

PCsupport.about.com
A down-to-earth troubleshooting guide for IBM PC's.  Look at the table of contents on the left and click on PC Maintenance.  Then click on Maintenance Schedule to see what maintenance you should be doing for your PC and how often.  You can then click on each item under How To to get directions for how to do each of these maintenance items.  After reviewing this information, you should know that you need to regularly do a scan disk and a defrag.

Still confused about how to do a scan disk or defrag for your  IBM PC?  This site actually shows you screen shots of how to do a defrag and scan disk.  This site says this is for Windows 95, but it will also work for Windows 98. Click here to visit!
 

PC Lube and Tune Exit Ramp.  Are you the average computer user looking for usable introductions, tutorials, and education on technical subjects? Look no further, just click on the link above!

If you want to find resources on a wide variety of PC topics, click here for PC World  This site covers everything from PC articles to buying guides.

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Yahoo offers a great web site with all kind of links to its favorite and most widely used online tech support.  Choose from a variety of guides and support services, just click here!

This is the Teaching and Learning Academy Site Map.  Look under technical help to find excellent troubleshooting links.  Some of the sites ask a question in the format that a teacher would  probably ask you, and then you can click on a link to see if you knew how to answer the question.  Take a look!

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