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Need advise on obtaining more computer know-how
I'm just looking for some advise from some of the very qualified contributors to these forums. I have very limited experience using the computer but I am anxious to learn more, just for pleasure and not for any work related use. I've read through all the tutorial subjects and have started reading the 5-10% of them that I think I am comfortable with and can learn from. The rest seem well beyond my comfort zone. So how do you go about getting from point A to point B with all this computer know how. Event logs, partitions, BSOD, BIOS, dump files zip, exe file, save as an HTML file, etc. etc. is mostly greek to some of us using these forums. What is the best way to start the journey. Do you recommend classes, any good books or websites? Is this stuff you can pick up through trial and error, over time on your own, such as through these forums. Do you need advise individual instruction. A case in point is it cost me a couple hundred dollars for my computer guy to do a complete system restore a couple times before we figured out that the windows updates should be manually updated because automatic updates were causing crashes. Would appreciate any advise you can share.