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1• How to get into your computer's BIOS
By Andy Walker. If you need to access the BIOS in your system, this will guide you through the process.
2• Record your LP records as MP3 files
By Jonathan Walker. There's no reason why you can't listen to your vinyl import of the Beatles' White Album on your iPod.
3• Wipe Vista and start fresh: Part 2
By Andy Walker. In this second step of the Vista reinstallation, wipe the hard drive and install a fresh copy.
4• One Window too many?
By Andy Walker. You reinstalled Windows XP on your computer thinking it would overwrite the existing version of Windows XP and now there are two copies when you boot up.
5• Hard drive grinding?
By Andy Walker. How to optimize your defragmenter and virtual memory settings.
6• How to downgrade Vista to XP
By Peter Ehm. It's not always nostalgia that drives us back from Vista to XP.
7• 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.
8• Outlook's archived e-mail only a click away
By Andy Walker. It makes perfect sense to archive mail as it saves space in your e-mail application.
9• 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.
10• Minimize wireless interference
By Andy Walker. An article about the effects of home electronics on your Wi-Fi connection.
11• How to reformat your hard drive and reinstall Windows 95
By Andy Walker. When you need step by step instructions on reinstalling Windows 95, we are here to help.
12• Bringing Windows 95 back to life
By Andy Walker. How to reformat your hard drive and reinstall Windows 95? It sounds scary, but it doesn't have to be.
13• Windows XP goes kaboom?
By Chris Ricci. An XP crash sounds ominous but it doesn't have to be: you can save your PC without losing your data.
14• How to choose a microprocessor
By Andy Walker. Not all microprocessors are the same.
15• Rename your router or be hacked
By Andy Walker. Change the factory settings on your home network router when you set it up.
16• 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.
17• How to 'find' downloaded files
By Andy Walker. Once in a while those files you downloaded from the Internet seem to go into self-induced exile.
18• Clean your Windows registry
By Don Reisinger. Sometimes the best way to fix a problem is to clean the Windows registry.
19• 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.
20• 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 .
21• Brand-name? A clone? A tough call
By Andy Walker. What is the difference between a brand name and a clone computer? Is there a difference?.
22• Fine-tuning the reformat-reinstall process for Windows 95
By Andy Walker. Follow-up to an earlier article with additional hints about formatting a hard drive to install Windows 95.
23• 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.
24• 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.
25• Don't throw anything away: Part 1
By Chris Ricci. New programs and applications eat memory galore.
26• Evidence Eliminator
By Ted Gallardo. There are many reasons why you want to make sure nobody knows what you've been up to on your computer, some of them noble, even.
27• Never lose your e-mail address book again.
By Andy Walker. E-mail addresses are today's phone numbers.
28• Windows users can open Mac's SIT files.
By Andy Walker. Here's a handy free utility that lets your PC use SIT files created on a Mac.
29• Hijacked browser? Fix it!
By Andy Walker. One technique used by spyware is to hijack your internet browser.
30• Avoid fake Wi-Fi access points
By Andy Walker. Your computer seems to become an access point for a network, which it isn't.
31• Uniblue's SpyEraser 2
By Jason Kerluck. There are many anti-spyware applications out there and it's wise to use more than one of them because there are many spyware writers out there.
32• 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.
33• Lavasoft's Ad-Aware 2007
By Ted Gallardo. One of the first applications out of the anti-spyware wars gates, Lavasoft is still going strong.
34• Right-clicking and other rodent secrets
By Andy Walker. If you've wondered what you're supposed to do with that "other button" on your PC's mouse, get ready for a lot of new choices.
35• Same box, different results
By Andy Walker. Computers of similar make and build often perform differently.
36• Optimize Windows XP
By Andy Walker. If your Windows XP seems sluggish, or just want to boost it's performance follow this easy guide.
37• FTP to the rescue
By Andy Walker. Large e-mail attachments tax some e-mail systems' resources.
38• Making your MP3 files mobile
By Jonathan Walker. You don't have to be chained to your PC to listen to your MP3 files.
39• 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.
40• 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.
41• Back-up your address book in Outlook Express 5.0
By Andy Walker. Backing up your Outlook Express address book is a step-by-step process.
42• 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.
43• Indexing files can keep your hard drive busy
By Andy Walker. Your screensaver is on but you can still hear your hard drive working on something.
44• 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.
45• Motherboard search is like a blue plate special.
By Andy Walker. How do I get the best computer component around? What do I buy, and from whom? Cyberwalker shares a little down-home wisdom he learned about shopping.
46• How to scan and print photos
By Andy Walker. With scanner/printers on the market, you can save your old hard copy photos to the computer.
47• Don't throw anything away: Part 2
By Chris Ricci. New programs and applications devour memory galore.
48• Computer myths: legends or truth?
By Peter Ehm. Some of the stories sound logical, and they might have been.
49• How to buy a notebook computer
By Andy Walker. Laptops have come a long way since their inception.
50• Pentium III and a brief history of PC processors
By Andy Walker. Processors have evolved rapidly these past few years.