Upgrading Your PC
General System Upgrade Information
The Belarc Advisor is a free product that builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware and displays the results in your Web browser. It will give you most of the information you need to know about your PC before you upgrade, and it's free for personal use at http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html. For an even more detailed look at the inner details of your PC, try Aida 32, another free tool and a fine product of Hungary at http://www.aida32.hu/aida-download.php?bit=32.
The Belarc Advisor is a free product that builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware and displays the results in your Web browser. It will give you most of the information you need to know about your PC before you upgrade, and it's free for personal use at http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html. For an even more detailed look at the inner details of your PC, try Aida 32, another free tool and a fine product of Hungary at http://www.aida32.hu/aida-download.php?bit=32.
- About.com: Basic Upgrades for your PC
http://pcsupport.about.com/cs/upgradingyourpc/ - Gateway Support - Tutorials: Expand and Upgrade Your PC
http://service.gateway.com/gateway/topic/1,,82,00.html - HardwareCentral - Tutorials
http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/tutorials/ - Lycos Help & How-To: Expand and Upgrade Your PC
http://howto.lycos.com/lycos/topic/1,,5+30+82,00.html - PCWorld.com - Great Upgrades for Under $100
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,81987,00.asp - PCWorld.com - Upgrading
http://www.pcworld.com/resource/browse/0,cat,1689,sortIdx,1,00.asp - Revitalize Your PC
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/07/22/pchardware.html - Speed Up Your PC: PC Magazine
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,890249,00.asp - TechTV Upgrade Your PC
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/print/0,23102,2590033,00.html - The Ultimate Upgrade Guide - PC Magazine
http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,4148,25727,00.asp - Upgrade Highway - Everything You Need To Know To Upgrade Your PC
http://www.upgradehighway.com/upgrade_computer.htm - Upgrading_Your_PC (50 page .pdf file)
http://cache.techtv.com/binaries/2002/upgrading_your_pc.pdf
- About.com: RAM (Memory) - Info
http://peripherals.about.com/cs/raminfo/ - An Install Guide On How To Add Or Upgrade Computer Memory (RAM)
http://computermemoryupgrade.mysuperpc.com/ - PCWorld.com - Step-By-Step Bulk Up Your PC's RAM
http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,62183,00.asp
- A Hard Drive Upgrade Install Guide
http://www.harddriveupgrade.com/ - About.com: Hard Disk Upgrades
http://peripherals.about.com/library/weekly/aa040798.htm?terms=computer+upgrade+guide - HardwareCentral - Tutorials - Installing a Hard Drive - Preparation
http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/tutorials/31/1/ - PCWorld.com - Upgrade Guide Install a Bigger, Faster Hard Drive
http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,47370,00.asp - PCWorld.com - The Whole Drive Guide
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,109366,00.asp
- Digital Silence - The Xperience - A Practical Guide for Upgrading to Windows
XP
http://www.d-silence.com/articles/WinXP1.shtml - Lycos Help & How-To - Upgrading to Windows XP
http://howto.lycos.com/lycos/step/1,,9+35547+35563+35565,00.html - Microsoft: Windows XP Professional Upgrade Center
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/upgrading/default.asp - Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows Windows XP Installation and Upgrade
Overview
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg.asp - PCWorld.com - Home Office A Windows XP Upgrade in Your Future
http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,65152,00.asp - Upgrading to Windows XP Upgrading can be an easy, rewarding experience - Computer Bits
http://www.computerbits.com/archive/2002/0100/upgradetoxp.html
- Professor Norman Matloff’s Beginner’s Guide to Installing Linux (17 page
.pdf)
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/Linux/LinuxInstall.pdf- Professor Norman Matloff's Unix Tutorial Center
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/unix.html
- Professor Norman Matloff's Unix Tutorial Center
- The INQUIRER guide to installing Linux (Installing Linux is easy)
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6162 - Linux Online: How to install Linux?
http://www.linux.org/docs/beginner/install.html - Dual booting Linux and Windows 2000/XP
http://www.enterprisedt.com/publications/dual_boot.html - Red Hat Linux 8.0 - The Official Red Hat Linux x86 Installation Guide
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/ - LinuxBeginner.org
http://www.linuxbeginner.org/ - Knoppix
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html - Knoppix.net - Knoppix support and how-to's
http://www.knoppix.net/
