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Windows 7 Made Simple
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Windows 7 Made Simple

by Kevin Otnes
October 2011
Beginner
835 pages
19h 23m
English
Apress
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What to Do with Your Old PC

The Web, magazines, and newspapers have lots of articles on what you can do with your old PC, as well as what not to do. Here are just a few ideas:

  • Use the computer as a print and file server for your home network. Hook up your printers to the PC, and then hook up the PC to your network. Then any PC on your network can print directly to the printers anytime. See Chapter 15 to learn how to share files and printers on a network.

    NOTE: While using the old PC as a print and file server allows you to reuse it instead of throwing it away, older PCs may use a lot of power and give off a lot of heat. This will become quite noticeable if you leave it running 24 hours a day. Heat is one of the leading causes of computer hardware ...

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