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1• Reformat and Reinstall: FAQs
By Andy Walker. Reformatting and reinstalling: What? When? Why? Where? How? You're in the right place for the answers to those questions and more.
2• File system? Which Windows uses what
By Andy Walker. If you need to figure out your filing system on your Windows operating system, this article's for you.
3• How to downgrade Vista to XP
By Peter Ehm. It's not always nostalgia that drives us back from Vista to XP.
4• What's inside a computer?
By Andy Walker. Not exactly sure what makes your computer work? All those parts seem too complicated to understand? This article will help you understand what makes a computer go.
5• A radical approach to tinkering with a hard drive
By Andy Walker. If you're going to format your C: drive, be sure to do it right.
6• How to create an autoresponder in Outlook 2002
By Andy Walker. Set Outlook 2002's auto-responder to make sure people who correspond with you know you're away, not ignoring their messages.
7• How to change Virtual Memory settings
By Jason Kerluck. Higher Virtual Memory can help your computer tackle complex tasks with ease and speed of lightning.
8• Running XP and Vista on the same machine
By Jason Kerluck. For those who are impatient enough not to be willing to wait until Microsoft fixes Vista into an acceptable operating system, here's an ingenious solution: dual-booting.
9• Vista lets you capture selected parts of your screen
By Jason Kerluck. If you don't like editing images of your screen captured by the Print Screen command, with Vista, you can get directly to the close-up of your dreams.
10• Fine-tuning the reformat-reinstall process for Windows 95
By Andy Walker. Follow-up to an earlier article with additional hints about formatting a hard drive to install Windows 95.
11• Here's what you need for your personal home office
By Andy Walker. If you need to buy equipment for your home office, here are some Cyberwalker recommendations.
12• MP3 music on the Internet: A user's guide
By Andy Walker. There are tons of places online to download MP3 music files.
13• Should I upgrade to the Windows XP operating system?
By Andy Walker. To move up to XP or not to move up to XP -- that is the question.
14• How to remove fonts
By Andy Walker. Do you absolutely have to keep every single version of every single font on your computer? Not necessarily.
15• How to create an autoresponder in Outlook 2000
By Andy Walker. Outlook 2000 has an automatic email "answering machine".
16• Upgrade from Vista to XP?
By Jason Kerluck. Vista is a resource hog, and it's slow, and it's unstable, so why not replace it with good, old and reliable XP? Not so fast: this switch could pose a host of challenges, some of them almost impossible to overcome.
17• Upgrading to Windows 98
By Andy Walker. Upgrading your OS almost always leads to a headache or two.
18• Keeping your data safe
By Peter Ehm. Since the time of tapes or unending boxes of floppies all the way to storing critical data on alternate media, our lives have become safer.
19• How to solve audio error messages
By Andy Walker. Windows 95 sound driver is out of date.
20• Bigger is always better when buying hard drives
By Andy Walker. When you shop for a hard drive, shop for more than you need right this minute.
21• General Protection Fault: not a quake
By Andy Walker. Anyone who's ever got the error message, "General Protection Fault" has probably uttered a few expletives.
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23• Windows and its versions up through Windows 2000
By Andy Walker. Here's an overview of where Windows has been and where it's going.
24• Laser printer ejects blank page
By Andy Walker. We've all had issues getting our printers to run properly.
25• Windows on Windows is messy
By Andy Walker. If you have two operating systems on your computer, you may be in for a hard time if you remove one of them.
26• Windows supports backward compatibility
By Andy Walker. Windows 95 provided a way for users to use DOS programs.
27• Use FastMove to move files among computers with ease.
By Andy Walker. If you are fortunate enough to have a few machines on a network, you probably have to juggle multiple files across them as well.
28• Ten Commandments to keep your computer healthy
By Jason Kerluck. They all make common sense, but not every computer is aware of them: basic rules to help your computer keep running in top form.
29• Return to XP an involved operation
By Jason Kerluck. Restoring your hard drive so XP installer can see what it's doing is not easy, but it's worth the effort to the many who prefer the older operating system to Vista.
30• Odds and sods in helpful hints
By Andy Walker. Cyberwalker musings.
31• Can you link a Vista box to an XP machine? Yes, you can
By Jason Kerluck. Short of upgrading your more mature computer from XP to Vista (and who would want to do that, right?), rere's relatively simple - but somewhat involved - recipe how to create a network (computers linked together) so that your XP computer and your Vista computer can communicate with each other, keeping you AND both of your computers happy.
32• Screensavers have pluses and minuses
By Chris Ricci. They do help protect your monitor from screen burn-in, but beware many third-party screensavers: they carry loads of spyware and adware.
33• Pick a laptop to suit your needs
By Andy Walker. They come in all shapes and colors, but a smart buyer knows there are other points to consider before shelling out their hard-earned dollar.
34• Too many fonts?
By Andy Walker. Maybe you just want to be able to manage them better.
35• Keeping up with the Vistas of this world
By Peter Ehm. For whatever reason, Windows Vista way too often isn't familiar with some rather common (but older) applications.
36• Gamers need to understand batch files
By Andy Walker. If you like computer games, perhaps you might pursue a degree in computer science.
37• Make sure your MS Office is legal
By Chris Ricci. There's a world of difference between Original Equipment Manufacturer installations of Microsoft applications and retail-boxed versions, price being one of them, bells and whistles the other.
38• How to clean your computer
By Andy Walker. A how to on keeping system damaging dirt down to a minimum.
39• Internal changes scared your computer silly?
By Andy Walker. Power on .
40• Vista: a greedy little devil
By Jason Kerluck. Microsoft's (relatively) new operating system can be as it beautiful as a program can get, but - just like princesses in fairy tales - it requires considerable help from your computer before it even begins thinking of operating smoothly.
41• AMD Spider proves not all computers are equal
By Jason Kerluck. Computer games expose that even the best of computer-parts standards do not guarantee seamless operation.
42• Windows 98: Not as scary as many fear.
By Andy Walker. With each new OS comes some apprehension, which is normal.
43• Service Pack 1: will it deliver Vista to its glory?
By Jason Kerluck. It took two service packs to make Windows XP the good, old and reliable benchmark it is today.
44• Getting the web address field back on your browser.
By Andy Walker. The web address field isn't absolutely necessary, but surfing sure is awkward without it.
45• Different builds of Windows
By Andy Walker. Windows build numbers tell you specifically what Windows version you have.
46• Which Windows version am I running?
By Andy Walker. Cyberwalker shows you a quick way to find out which version of Windows you are using.
47• Running a Mac not that difficult, after all
By Jason Kerluck. Mac has picked quite a few trick from the Windows environment, just as Windows some time ago used the Mac to improve itself.
48• Vista incompatible with older peripherals
By Andy Walker. Microsoft might be dropping support for XP next year - or not, given that Vista still doesn't carry drivers that would help it support older equipment.
49• Third Service Pack for XP ready to hit the market
By Jason Kerluck. New Service Pack offers a host of improvements, even though not all that glitters is gold.
50• Getting around the Mac
By Jason Kerluck. The differences between how to use Windows and how to use Mac are not that huge and impossible to get used to, after all.