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1•  How to add a second hard drive

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

2• How to detect and remove spyware

By Andy Walker. Arm yourself with the knowledge and the tools to protect yourself from spyware's malicious work.

3• Stand up against hijackers

By Andy Walker. Finding that your home page has been hijacked is frustrating.

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5• How to defragment your hard drive

By Andy Walker. Your computer files become disorganized over time, slowing things down.

6• 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.

7• Two monitors on one computer . . . Is that possible?

By Andy Walker. Yes, it is possible, but you need to know Windows 98's limitations concerning the whole idea.

8• Clean your Windows registry

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

9•  How to remove unwanted pop-up ads

By Andy Walker. Stop spying software from installing without permission.

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• Save power, save the planet - and save your computer, too

By Peter Ehm. New operating systems include a number of applications that keep the computer off while you're away, and yet keep your data and applications ready for your return .

12• Give your browser an amnesia

By Andy Walker. Internet Explorer means well, but sometimes it keeps track of information you want to delete.

13• How to remove spyware

By Andy Walker. Has your computer started running slowly or just plain acting strange? You may have spyware.

14• Fix power management with a BIOS update

By Andy Walker. Fixing power management issues with a BIOS update can be a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be.

15• Get hackers out of your home

By Andy Walker. The arrival of broadband Internet access has opened up a new playground for hackers: home computers.

16• How to fix Windows time problems

By Andy Walker. An incorrect clock is a serious annoyance.

17• Sometimes frightening virus warnings are just hoaxes.

By Andy Walker. Anyone who has emailed much at all has probably fallen prey to at least one emailed hoax.

18• Real alarm? Hoax?

By Andy Walker. With so many viruses and hoaxes floating around the internet these days, it's more important than ever to learn about how to know what is coming into your email inbox.

19• E-commerce imports tax Canadians

By Andy Walker. If you're buying items over the Internet, it's important to be aware of what your tax liabilities may be.

20• 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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22• Blogs give you a voice on the web

By Lucy Zhao. Bloggers should decide what they want to say first, and how they want to say it, second .

23• Should the web be like a family reunion?

By Andy Walker. You don't have to share your personal information with a site just because it tries to get it from you.

24• Wired ride

By Andy Walker. Intelligent tools and new technologies are making the driving experience safer, more productive for the business person, and more fun for the folks in the backseat.

25• Widget an integral part of a blog

By Chris Ricci. It's not techno-babble.

26• Disabling automatic startup of CDs

By Andy Walker. It's annoying when a CD starts playing before you want it to.

27• LabRats #095: Trojan horses: ancient Greece going modern

By Cyberwalker staff. Never open an attachment that landed in your inbox from persons unknown, and better check with your friends when they send you something like that, if they really, really DID send the file that looks too good to be true.

28• 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.

29• Tweak UI helps clean up overcrowded hard drives

By Andy Walker. Incorrectly removing programs from your system can lead to error messages and decreased performance.

30• Pentium III will boost multimedia functionality.

By Andy Walker. Upgrades in computer components are coming at an alarming rate.

31• Browser-jacking endangers us all

By Cyberwalker Staff. The DSSAgent might send over 10,000 Internet requests in 15 minutes, slowing network traffic, and not only that: when you go to go a perfectly innocent site a hard-porn page show up instead.

32• 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.

33• Password problem fixed

By Andy Walker. If you want to log into Explorer 4.

34• Out with the old? Why?

By Chris Ricci. Get rid of most of the software bells and whistles to get a faster-running machine without spending a penny.

35• FAT facts for partitioners

By Andy Walker. For those who are curious what FAT or FAT32 is, here you go.

36• What is a hoax and what isn't

By Craig Worden. Why people do it, nobody knows, but many send out warnings about this or that deadly virus, flooding the Web with pseudo-danger announcements.

37• Finding your music CD info on your computer

By Andy Walker. Windows 95 stores relevant information about your music CDs in a file on your PC.

38• What to know before you compress your hard drive.

By Andy Walker. Before you run DriveSpace, think about whether you're more concerned with your hard drive's capacity or its speed.



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