Excellent book for beginner to pro! This book makes it easy to keep your PC running healthy and troubleshoot potential problems.
I have Troubleshooting, Mainaining & Repairing PCs by Bigelow. I came to a couple conclusions:
1. I am not likely to upgrade, repair or physically install components. Therefore, I do not need a book about upgrading or installing.
2. I would rather keep this paperback on my desk, instead of Bigelow's Hardcover, 1000+ pages.
Enjoy the book. I hope it is as helpful to you as it is to me.

The Internet has opened up many wonderful opportunities for people to buy and sell merchandise and services online. It has become possible to make major purchases of common everyday items as well as buying those hard-to-find and hard-to-get ones! Within this last year the Internet has become the home of another traditional form of buying - auctioning. It is now possible for you to bid on those things that you and others are looking for in life from the convenience of your home or office.

Michael Miller has written a great online book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Auctions, to help acquaint members of the online community with the pros and cons of the online auctioning business. While at first one may ponder experiencing the thrill of biding for something online, Miller points out that there are many precautions people should take before getting involved with this form of online buying. There are many people operating online behind the scenes to capitalize on the misfortunes of others through willful deceit. Online auctioning is not child's play! It requires a disciplined approach and Miller offers his readers plenty of thoughtful instruction.

Miller offers a wealth of information, including listings of the most popular auction Websites online to date that cover a variety of purchase items, including the much heralded eBay site. In fact, Miller treats his readers to a considerable amount of attention to this one site that currently ranks at the top of them all. Readers will learn how these auction Websites work and how they can best benefit from them. He also helps readers new to online auctioning by clearing up some of the common misconceptions they may have about online auctioning and points out many of the pitfalls they must avoid. Be wise with your public image and money - heed his advice!

Readers should carefully consider Miller's advice on bid and placement timing, auctioning techniques, specific procedures to follow, how to avoid being duped or taken advantage of by online scam artists, sales tax information, using credit cards to make online purchases, user warrantees, return policies, and other important purchasing considerations. This book makes an excellent companion to Preston Gralla's The Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Shopping. Both are great books to have on hand!

Miller offers an easily readable treatment on joining the online auctioning scene. This method of making purchases can be fun and profitable for those who adequately prepare ahead of time. He will help those readers wary of this fairly recent Web development by exposing many of the risks involved. Readers will gain great insight on how to save time and money. They will also feel at ease after reading this book. It will help alleviate most of the fears they may have.

The coaching offered in this book is top-notch. It's great for those wishing to participate in the buying and selling of items online through this highly visible form of marketing. Highly recommended for those persons conducting a business such as selling antiques and other collectibles!

I'm a veteran Internet user, and have been using search engines & other tools for quite a few years now. I rather frequently (by my better friends) have people ask me to look for things on the net for them, which I like to do in my spare time.

I had originally bought this book for my Father who is just starting to get online and really use the web - the book looked quite good for the introductory user. He was asking me how to look for things online, and I'd make some basic reccomendations (i.e. "check yahoo and then check ...". However after I had bought him the book he was telling me about new search engines I hadn't tried before and using great (off the beaten path) sites I use but never told him about. I was immediately suspicious.

While I was home for Christmas this year (Dec,99) I started reading the guide and was finding all kinds of accurate & useful information it's taken me years to learn. Wow this book has a lot of great hints on really finding what you want, it's very updated. It also does a good job of explaining how things work underneath so you know enough to figure it out on your own later. Excellent book for new & veteran users alike. This is worth the cover price just in the time you'll save searching in the first month alone. Highly reccomended (and no-one paid me to say that).

bretthall@ieee.org.NoSpAm (remove the NoSpAm from the above address to email me)

What would you say to a teenager who tells you that they have been thinking about killing themselves and their classmates? How do you handle information like that when you know you could stop another Columbine Shooting? Do you call the police to have them locked up or do you just sit and hug them and tell them that you care about them? This book has all the answers in plain and simple English.

This book should be mandatory reading for anyone who comes in contact with teenagers during the course of any week or month. It has some timeless insights into the mind of depressed teenager and positive tools that are essential for helping them.

Illustrated with gorgeous black-and-white color photographs and the occasional painting, Duck Hunting on the Fox: Hunting & Decoy-Carving Traditions by duck hunter and decoy maker Stephen M. Miller is a wonderful celebration of the pastime of duck hunting with decoys and other techniques along the Fox River of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Miller deftly demonstrates his love of the sport and vividly recounts his experiences hunting ducks on the Fox since the 1930s. Duck Hunting On The Fox is enthusiastically recommended as an engaging collection of anecdotes about the joy of waterfowling, and would make an excellent giftbook for those who truly love the sport.

This is one of those rare gems that you find once in a great while. For the person who in serious about their personal prayer life this book is a must have. Father Bunge critiques the problems of modern Catholic prayer and lays out a plan for individual prayer and shows the basis on the early church fathers. This is an informative and practical book! I highly recommend it.

This book is great if you never used the Internet before. It's easy to read and use, and the step-by-step approach goes into each step in detail.

This book is terrific. There are plenty of pictures and there are chapters from all the towns that make up Enfield: Scitico, Thompsonville and Hazardville. Even Shaker Pines is here!

Thompsonville is dominated by the Carpet Mill history and the immigrants that most of us residents descended from.

Absolutely excellent!!

This work shows what the Church's position is on life. I definately recommend this book for everyone.

This book is very informative and provides the reader with amazing detail of how the justice system works.