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Five-Minute Fixes

Rapid relief for balky PCs, stuck Windows, stalled networks, recalcitrant printers, and your other everyday computing hassles.

Kirk Steers

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Illustration: Joe Zeff
If you ask me, the worst thing about PCs is that things go wrong more often than Ben Affleck makes bad career choices. The best thing? The machines are usually pretty easy to fix. In fact, you can solve the most common hardware and software problems in just a few minutes (though the actual repair time will vary from system to system). We've collected 37 lightning-fast fixes for a locked-up PC, a Windows update gone awry, a lost network link, a corrupted Word document, and the other glitches you're most likely to encounter.

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