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1• Reformat and Reinstall Windows XP FAQ

By Andy Walker. This FAQ (frequently asked questions page) is for people who own a Windows XP computer and want to reinstall and reformat their hard drives.

2• How to get into your computer's BIOS

By Andy Walker. If you need to access the BIOS in your system, this will guide you through the process.

3• Need a boot disk? Why? How?

By Andy Walker. If you're reinstalling your operating system, you may very well need a boot disk.

4• How to wipe an NTFS formated hard drive with Windows XP

By Andy Walker. Here's how to wipe a hard drive that uses NTFS as a file allocation system.

5• How to reformat and reinstall Windows XP - Method #2

By Andy Walker. Our Windows XP Reinstall and Reformat FAQ has two methods.

6• 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.

7• Do I really have to reformat and reinstall?

By Andy Walker. Maybe you don't have to reformat your hard drive reinstall Windows.

8•  Reformat your hard drive using Windows 98

By Andy Walker. It makes perfect sense to do so once in a while, if only to keep your box running like a race horse.

9• How to reformat and reinstall Windows Vista

By Andy Walker. Before you decide to reformat and reinstall your Windows Vista, there are several important things to consider.

10• 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.

11• FAT32 is no obstacle in going back in history

By Andy Walker. How to wipe Windows XP and revert to Windows Me/98/95 if you have FAT32.

12• Wipe Vista in two steps: Part 1

By Andy Walker. This two-part process shows you how to edit your BIOS and then boot from your Vista install DVD, then wipe the Vista partition and put a fresh copy of the operating system on it.

13• How to re-install Windows ME

By Andy Walker. If you want to install Windows ME on a clean system, it's pretty easy.

14• Easy reinstall for Windows Vista

By Andy Walker. If you want to take advantage of Windows Vista's new reinstall option from the desktop, start with this article.

15• Reformat and reinstall Windows 98 on your laptop

By Andy Walker. If you need to reinstall Windows 98 on your laptop computer, there are different ways to do it depending on how your particular system is set up.

16• Wipe Vista and start fresh: Part 2

By Andy Walker. In this second step of the Vista reinstallation, wipe the hard drive and install a fresh copy.

17• Hate Windows XP? Wipe it out!

By Andy Walker. If you have Windows XP and you want to revert back to Windows ME, 98, or 95, this is how to do it.

18• More ways to clean up Vista

By Cyberwalker staff. Wiping your system clean and reinstalling Windows Vista is a time-consuming project.

19• Get help with your computer problem

By Staff. Cyberwalker.

20• How to reformat your hard drive and reinstall Windows 95

By Andy Walker. When you need step by step instructions on reinstalling Windows 95, we are here to help.

21• How to downgrade Vista to XP

By Peter Ehm. It's not always nostalgia that drives us back from Vista to XP.

22• Bringing Windows 95 back to life

By Andy Walker. How to reformat your hard drive and reinstall Windows 95? It sounds scary, but it doesn't have to be.

23• How to fix your printer

By Andy Walker. Printers seem to be the source of a lot of the problems faced by computer users today.

24• Wipe the hard drive clean

By Andy Walker. Data deleted from the hard drive may seem permanently gone, but it may really still exist on your system.

25• 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.

26• Slip-stream into the fast lane

By Chris Ricci. Avoid waiting for Windows XP updates and patches, make them all part of Service Pack 2, and live happily ever after.

27• How to fix your monitor's colors after a reinstall

By Andy Walker. You had reason to reinstall Windows and now your monitor's colors look really awful.

28• Emergency Tech Support

By Andy Walker. Having trouble with your computer? No fear! Tech support is available from Cyberwalker.

29• How to clean up Windows 98 start up

By Andy Walker. Keep your zippy wonder box tidy for continued fast performance.

30• Linus Torvalds' double life

By Andy Walker. Andy Walker catches up with Linux Torvalds in 2000 and talks to him about the operating system that changed his life and the computing world.

31• Never lose your e-mail address book again.

By Andy Walker. E-mail addresses are today's phone numbers.

32• 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.

33• Evidence Eliminator

By Ted Gallardo. There are many reasons why you want to make sure nobody knows what you've been up to on your computer, some of them noble, even.

34• How to troubleshoot Windows crashes

By Andy Walker. If you have the dreaded "Blue Screen of Death," this article will help you determine the cause, and how to alleviate it.

35• Take control of your documents

By Chris Ricci. A few useful tips to share your files with those you want to share them with, and make sure they're safe.

36• Lost your Windows XP password?

By Chris Ricci. New developments help ease the pain of the loss that used to be almost irreparable.

37• Back-up your address book in Outlook Express 5.0

By Andy Walker. Backing up your Outlook Express address book is a step-by-step process.

38• 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.

39• If Windows 98 won't install over 95, get the right CD.

By Andy Walker. If you're having trouble installing a recently purchased copy of a operating system on to your computer, you might be surprised to find out one possible reason, and how common the problem really is.

40• Upgrading to Windows 98

By Andy Walker. Upgrading your OS almost always leads to a headache or two.

41• How to reinstall Mac OS X

By Andy Walker. You may find some bad apples even among the vaunted Macintoshes.

42• CA Internet Security Suite 2007: go for it

By Ted Gallardo. Fighting viruses, spyware and spam behind one firewall is rather attractive but ability to concentrate its controls into one spot would be even more helpful.

43• Time to reload Windows

By Andy Walker. Once in a while your computer just needs a fresh install of the operating system.

44• TMP files: A necessary evil?

By Chris Ricci. They slow you down, but deciding which ones have to go and where to find them isn't an easy proposition.

45• Help for network hookup

By Andy Walker. One of your Win95 machines has become disconnected from your network.

46• 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.

47• 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.

48•  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.

49• Edit registry to fix IE content advisory password woes.

By Andy Walker. Here's how to release IE's content advisory, by editing your registry.

50• Computer orphans explained

By Andy Walker. The Child Protective Service has no real interest in this article, but you might.