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1• 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.

2• How to find an e-mail address

By Andy Walker. Trying to locate a long-lost friend by looking for an e-mail address? Elementary, my dear Watson.

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

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

4• Keeping home net routers safe

By Andy Walker. Most home network owners never delve inside their routers to use the hidden security settings that can be used to lock down a network nice and tight.

5• 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.

6• E-mailed links don't work? Fix 'em!

By Andy Walker. Sometimes you receive an e-mail with a link in it.

7• What's behind the file extensions?

By Andy Walker. They come in all sorts.

8• Search and find

By Andy Walker. It's a hassle sifting through irrelevant pages in your search results.

9• How to change file associations

By Andy Walker. Windows automatically assigns specific applications to be associated with specific files.

10• Unknown? Pleased to meet you!

By Andy Walker. Sometimes it seems just impossible to know what program to use to open an unknown file.

11• ZIP? BinHex? UUencode? What's that?

By Andy Walker. What are these compression codes and how do they work?.

12•  Old DOS disk works on Windows, but it's risky

By Andy Walker. Many of us have old software lying around from earlier operating systems.

13• An easy guide to associating files with Windows programs

By Andy Walker. Sometimes a computer needs help deciding what program to use when opening files.

14• Too many fonts?

By Andy Walker. Maybe you just want to be able to manage them better.

15• Making sense of 56K modems

By Andy Walker. High-speed modems can be confusing to even the most computer literate person.

16• ASCII files aren't mysteries - in fact, they're great.

By Andy Walker. ASCII: It's not the code name for the next space mission.

17• Old DOS disk works on Windows, but it's risky.

By Andy Walker. Can you use DOS disks on your Win95 machine? Possible - Yes.

18• More power is what a modern computer user needs

By Andy Walker. A computer that will do all our work, giving us more time to be creative, is the machine of a modern human being's dreams.

19• 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.

20• Send big files without problems

By Chris Ricci. Compressing a series of files for transmission using WinRAR: some re-assembly required.

21• Games have come a long way

By Jason Kerluck. Most of us don't even remember the text-based games people used to entertain themselves with a mere quarter of a century ago.



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