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1• Need a boot disk? Why? How?

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

2• 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.

3•  How to add a second hard drive

By Andy Walker. Need more hard drive space? Cyberwalker will tell you how to add more!.

4• Create audio CDs with MP3 files

By Jonathan Walker. When you want to play your MP3s on a standard CD player, you need an audio CD of them.

5• Good old DOS to the rescue

By Andy Walker. Rebuild your Master Boot Record and keep your computer running.

6• 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.

7• How to fix CRC errors

By Andy Walker. Don't fret if you are getting CRC file errors.

8• Clean your Windows registry

By Don Reisinger. Sometimes the best way to fix a problem is to clean the Windows registry.

9• Video: How to clean spyware and stop future infections

By Andy Walker. In this video, learn how to clean out your computer and remove spyware, adware and other nasty stuff that may be infecting your computer using thre different products, two of which are free!.

10• Making your MP3 files mobile

By Jonathan Walker. You don't have to be chained to your PC to listen to your MP3 files.

11• How to reinstall Mac OS X

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

12• To move to Windows XP, you'll need to upgrade your RAM

By Andy Walker. If you are looking at using Windows XP, you may need to upgrade your RAM.

13• 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.

14• Yep, it's a virus.

By Andy Walker. Just when you thought it was safe to relax your computer security, you find out you were wrong about that.

15• Computer myths: legends or truth?

By Peter Ehm. Some of the stories sound logical, and they might have been.

16• 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.

17• How to protect yourself against the Love Bug

By Andy Walker. The Love Bug, a/k/a the "I Love You" virus, is one of the latest in an annoyingly persistent series of viruses with malicious payloads.

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19• How to choose a power strip

By Andy Walker. With all the power cables that go along with running a computer, a power strip is essential.

20• 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.

21• Chip overclocking makes PC faster, but be careful.

By Andy Walker. Overclocking a PC doesn't make time go faster -- it makes your processor run faster than it was meant to.

22• Better safe than sorry

By Chris Blackwell. The more we depend on computers, the more we depend on their security.

23• Responses to Back Orifice 2000

By Andy Walker. Hackers released Back Orifice 2000, and the good guys had a fix out within a few days.

24• 911 for damaged registry

By Andy Walker. Your registry is damaged, perhaps beyond recognition.

25• Fix for Word 97 crashes

By Andy Walker. If you're having continuous crashes with Word 97 this article provides some helpful tips.

26• Gamers need to understand batch files

By Andy Walker. If you like computer games, perhaps you might pursue a degree in computer science.

27• The Melissa macro virus

By Andy Walker. With apologies to all the very nice ladies named Melissa, this virus was bad news for a lot of people.

28• Power: a good servant, an awful master

By Peter Ehm. Surge protectors and Uninterruptible Power Supply units (UPS) can save your computer and your sanity, too.

29• Cheating your way through life: 1

By Chris Ricci. Gaming, music and video industries try to protect their property, but hackers beat their systems hands down: Part 1.

30• Internal changes scared your computer silly?

By Andy Walker. Power on .

31• Eyewear, your link to the world

By Chris Ricci. They're right out of the latest Terminator movie: glasses that carry a phone, an MP3 player, keep your eyes safe from UV rays, and still let you see through them.

32• Should you write on a CD or DVD?

By Andy Walker. You're into making your own CDs, so how do you keep from mixing up your "England's Best Punk" CD from Granny's "1001 Irish Jigs"? Grab a pen, just be sure it's the right type.

33• iPod not the the only game in town

By Andy Walker. Individual features may be similar, but it's the combination of those features, and the resulting quality with price considerations included, that distinguish digital music players amongst themselves.

34• What do ACL files do? Do you need them?

By Andy Walker. ACL files are pretty handy.

35• Carbonite: Online Backup

By . Learn more about Carbonite on-line backup.

36• Get the fear out of Internet browsing

By Jason Kerluck. Security packages help us defend our computers against spyware and viral attacks.

37• Netscape bids adieu

By Jason Kerluck. R.



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