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1• 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.
2• Computer Ports and Connectors: A Quick Reference
By Andy Walker. With this guide, you can easily identify all those mysterious looking holes on the back of your computer.
3• Your BIOS needs facelift, too
By Andy Walker. If you need to update your BIOS and you have a flash BIOS chip, no worries.
4• Your family needs a computer?
By Andy Walker. Games, finances, digital photography, writing e-mails to Aunt Jennie: decide what you want to do first, then start looking around.
5• Don't add RAM to speed up your box
By Andy Walker. Instead of buying and installing new RAM, you can get software that either cleans up your system, freeing it of unneeded debris, or just makes sure your memory is used for what YOU need, rather than for what other applications seem to think THEY need.
6• How to defragment your computer's hard drive
By Andy Walker. Part of your computer housekeeping should be to run Disk Defragmenter regularly.
7• Ethernet (or Network) Port
By Andy Walker. What is a an Ethernet port, and what exactly does it look like?.
8• How to set-up a home network
By AndyWalker. If you have more than one computer in your home, it's easy to set up a home network.
9• Minimize wireless interference
By Andy Walker. An article about the effects of home electronics on your Wi-Fi connection.
10• A guide to those weird ports on the back of your computer
By Andy Walker. Don't be intimidated by all the different connections on the back of your computer.
11• 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.
12• 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.
13• Video DB9-15 Port
By Andy Walker. Curious as to what the video connector looks like? Cyberwalker shows you so you can hook up your monitor.
14• How to buy a small business PC
By Andy Walker. A business's computer needs are different from a home's.
15• Grisoft's AVG Anti-Virus (Free Edition)
By Ted Gallardo. You get more than you've paid for: yes, Grisoft's AVG Anti-Virus free edition lacks dedicated technical support, but it does keep your computer clean, and that's what matters most.
16• Same box, different results
By Andy Walker. Computers of similar make and build often perform differently.
17• What's connected to a computer? All about peripherals
By Andy Walker. Wondering what is connected to your PC through all those cables? Here is the skinny on computer peripherals.
18• 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.
19• Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic AntiVirus
By Ted Gallardo. It is straightforward and easy-to-use and navigate, but it does tend to get lost from time to time.
20• Keeping drivers up-to-date
By Andy Walker. Get the story here about what drivers are, the importance of keeping them up-to-date, and how to go about it.
21• Faulty cable skews color on monitor.
By Andy Walker. Good connections are always important in relationships, and machines as well.
22• Optimize Windows XP
By Andy Walker. If your Windows XP seems sluggish, or just want to boost it's performance follow this easy guide.
23• How to choose a computer monitor
By Andy Walker. Upgrading your computer for better performance is a popular thing to do.
24• Monitor signal degradation
By Andy Walker. If you need an extension cable for your monitor, your best bet might be to move it closer to the CPU.
25• How to buy a small business computer in 2003
By Andy Walker. Purchasing a computer for a small business poses its own set of unique problems.
26• Safer Networking's Spybot - Search & Destroy
By Ted Gallardo. Simple, straightforward, easy to use, this is one of the few applications to offer a free real-time protection monitor.
27• Carbonite Online Backup
By Jason Kerluck. Carbonite offers an uncomplicated way to save whatever you need to save on your computer before tragedy strikes and your hard drive goes kaput.
28• 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.
29• Getting the static out
By Andy Walker. In the age of electronics, static interference comes from many sources.
30• Computer basics: Devices that can connect to a computer
By Andy Walker. There are all sorts of nifty devices you can connect to a computer.
31• Blame video card for computer's strange behavior.
By Andy Walker. If your computer screen freezes often, or you have other video-related issues, this guide will help you update your video card drivers.
32• Better safe than sorry
By Chris Blackwell. The more we depend on computers, the more we depend on their security.
33• Pentium III will boost multimedia functionality.
By Andy Walker. Upgrades in computer components are coming at an alarming rate.
34• 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.
35• Keeping your registry clean
By Chris Thorp. Corrupt registry drives your computer to a standstill.
36• Screensavers have pluses and minuses
By Chris Ricci. They do help protect your monitor from screen burn-in, but beware many third-party screensavers: they carry loads of spyware and adware.
37• Using CA Personal Firewall 2007
By Ted Gallardo. There are other security applications that keep would-be hackers at bay and away from your computer better than this one.
38• LabRats #097: Why one screen if you can have two?
By Cyberwalker staff. If you want (or need) to be more effective and efficient, and you want (or need) to keep more than one application active at the same time on your computer, multi-monitor set-ups work like magic.
39• Get two monitors working side-by-side
By Chris Ricci. It takes a bit of work, but you need not dump your old CRT display.
40• Ding dong the PDA is dead
By Andy Walker. Is that a computer on your wrist? .
41• Self Heal Your Computer and Save
By Staff. Get savings on software of up to 25%!.
42• Why all this clutter? Throw it out!
By Chris Ricci. Windows XP comes loaded with goodies .
43• OLED a real display revolution
By Jason Kerluck. Imagine T-shirts that can change their pictures wirelessly: and that's only one of the many things OLED can do.
44• Cyberwalker Radio Episode 035
By . January 2nd, 2006: iPods, RAZRs and dual monitors.
45• Power may be the culprit in monitor blowups.
By Andy Walker. All those little settings for your monitor actually are important.
46• Vista: a greedy little devil
By Jason Kerluck. Microsoft's (relatively) new operating system can be as it beautiful as a program can get, but - just like princesses in fairy tales - it requires considerable help from your computer before it even begins thinking of operating smoothly.
47• 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.
48• 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.
49• Two monitors often better than one
By Jason Kerluck. To be able to use more of your computer's capabilities, you often need to see everything that's going on, and then some.
50• How to snipe an auction
By Chris Ricci. Losing an auction in the dying seconds is no fun .