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1• How to Add RAM

By Andy Walker. Got questions about adding memory to your computer? We've got the answers.

2• Need a boot disk? Why? How?

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

3• Cyberwalker.com Frequently Asked Questions

By . Are you having difficulties finding your way around our site? We have the answers to your questions right here.

4• All about MP3 and WMA files: A digital audio primer

By Andy Walker / Jonathan Walker. Using your digital music files is easier and more fun when you understand the big picture, which Cyberwalker explains here.

5• Is it mice or mouses? Computerese grammar at its best!

By Andy Walker. Often in life, it's the silliest questions that deserves the best answers.

6• 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.

7• The difference between PC100, PC133, and DDR memory

By Andy Walker. If you're looking at upgrading your system with some new RAM, be advised not all forms of RAM are compatible with one another.

8• Back Orifice Trojan horse explained

By Andy Walker. True to the historical version, a Trojan horse can attack your computer without your realizing anything's going wrong.

9• How to choose a microprocessor

By Andy Walker. Not all microprocessors are the same.

10• 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.

11• 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.

12• The future of chip technology

By Andy Walker. Moore's Law has about a decade before chipmakers start running out of ways to miniaturize silicon wafers, but new non-silicon chips may save the day.

13• Same box, different results

By Andy Walker. Computers of similar make and build often perform differently.

14• How to buy a laptop in 2004

By Andy Walker. Here are a few buying tips to think about before you spend your well-earned money on one.

15• 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.

16• 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.

17• Pentium III and a brief history of PC processors

By Andy Walker. Processors have evolved rapidly these past few years.

18• How to network several PCs

By Andy Walker. Troubleshooting a computer network is a major scare for a lot of folks.

19• What's behind the file extensions?

By Andy Walker. They come in all sorts.

20• Welcome to Cyberwalker 2.0

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21• Tips for the rookie scanner

By Andy Walker. So you've decided to buy yourself a scanner - congratulations! This article will help you go from scanning rookie to pro.

22• Keeping your registry clean

By Chris Thorp. Corrupt registry drives your computer to a standstill.

23• Baud rate and bits per second

By Andy Walker. There's only a little you need to know about the difference between baud and bits per second, and it's all right here.

24• Windows XP is here. Is it right for you?

By Andy Walker. Upgrading to a new computer operating system is always a big decision.

25• Zipping through computer world

By Andy Walker. Even the biggest hard drive or the fastest connection aren't big or fast enough for some huge files.

26• ICQ lets you communicate in real time.

By Andy Walker. ICQ is a powerful and fun tool for instant messaging, chats, broadcasts, even sending data, but there are a couple of issues you need to know about.

27• Dual cores mystery no longer

By Andy Walker. Adding a core to a processor chip is just like adding another brain.

28•  Dump the freebie zip utility.

By Andy Walker. Having problems with the data compression software you got for free? Here are a few recommendations for better performance.

29• Clean power equals clean computing

By Peter Ehm. Plug-and-play is a nice expression, and it works - provided you don't plug your computer directly into the wall outlet.

30• OQ-Oh! Get me one of those!

By Andy Walker. The OQO will be the PDA killer.

31• Find an old scanner for old PC

By Andy Walker. Many times you want to find compatible peripherals for an older system.

32• Ding dong the PDA is dead

By Andy Walker. Is that a computer on your wrist? .

33• Viruses now a money maker

By Andy Walker. Progress reaches the underground world: virus and other malicious software writers get paid to sell their stuff so criminals can abuse computer users big and small more efficiently.

34• Where is my wearable computer?

By Peter Ehm. PDAs weren't it, and they died a painful death by user indifference.

35• 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.

36• The Web comes to your rescue.

By Andy Walker. The important thing is not to know everything, but to know where to find everything.

37• Network protocols can be a headache.

By Andy Walker. Here's some inside info about your dial-up modem to improve your connection time.

38• 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.

39• 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.

40• So who's limping? Mac or PC?

By Jason Kerluck. The differences between the two systems seem to have faded lately.

41• Cyberwalker Radio Episode 025

By staff. October 2nd, 2006: Wireless Routers, Networking and PVR's.

42• LabRats #005: Not enough space? Add another hard drive!

By Cyberwalker staff. In Episode 5 of their LabRats show, Andy Walker and Sean Carruthers discuss how to double - or even quadruple, or just multiply any other way - your computer's capacity.

43• Cyberwalker Radio Episode 027

By staff. October 17th, 2006: Site Launch, Little Geeks, Spyware and more.

44• Cyberwalker Radio Episode 026

By staff. October 10th, 2006: Blu-Ray, Tivo in Canada, deleting files and the ever popular BSOD.

45• Why Cyberwalker.com? Here's why!

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