Chapter 10

Essential Peripherals

Peripherals are essential to customizing a desktop or laptop computer for specific tasks. This chapter provides a variety of exercises to help users troubleshoot, maintain, or install important types of peripherals.

USB ports are the most versatile ports for adding peripherals, ranging from printers and webcams to mice, keyboards, and external drives. Keeping USB ports working properly is a vital task in a USB-dominated world.

Because of the wide variety of USB port types ...

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