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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• Stand up against hijackers
By Andy Walker. Finding that your home page has been hijacked is frustrating.
3• How to remove unwanted pop-up ads
By Andy Walker. Stop spying software from installing without permission.
4• 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.
5• How to clean out Internet files
By Andy Walker. Cookies aren't just delicious snacks anymore.
6• How to remove spyware
By Andy Walker. Has your computer started running slowly or just plain acting strange? You may have spyware.
7• Fix the blue screen of death
By Andy Walker. Does you system crash and show a blue screen? Here are a few tips to help you and your computer out of the mess.
8• Optimize Windows XP
By Andy Walker. If your Windows XP seems sluggish, or just want to boost it's performance follow this easy guide.
9• Get rid of Internet debris
By Andy Walker. Internet files can clog your drive space.
10• 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.
11• How to fix web link errors
By Andy Walker. If you're having trouble reaching certain web pages on the Internet, and you know they were there before, here are some helpful tips to get you to your destinations.
12• E-mailed links don't work? Fix 'em!
By Andy Walker. Sometimes you receive an e-mail with a link in it.
13• 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.
14• 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.
15• Pentium III and a brief history of PC processors
By Andy Walker. Processors have evolved rapidly these past few years.
16• Blog your world to the world
By Chris Ricci. No matter where you are and what you're doing, you can tell your story - and even talk to people who agree (or disagree) with you.
17• 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.
18• Be a master of your domain
By Chris Ricci. Build you own web site and communicate with the rest of the world.
19• 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.
20• How to fool e-mail worms and stop them cold
By Andy Walker. Sometimes there are little tricks you can do to keep viruses at bay, but are they worth it?.
21• Computer Basics for Newcomers to Computers
By Andy Walker. We all need to start learning at the beginning.
22• 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.
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• Trick your computer out of its wits
By Chris Ricci. A few tricks can make you a wizard who wins each and every computer game and gets so much out of the media even its authors had no idea it could be done.
25• Tired of seeing those same error messages on startup?
By Andy Walker. Sometimes Windows means well by showing you what it thinks are startup errors, but they're just annoying you.
26• Office to go
By Chris Ricci. Travelling all over the world, we still enjoy having the comfort and homey look-and-feel of our own computer screen.
27• OSGI yi yi
By Andy Walker. Firmware updates for everybody!.
28• W32.Kriz is not a virus hoax
By Andy Walker. The W32.
29• Windows XP is here. Is it right for you?
By Andy Walker. Upgrading to a new computer operating system is always a big decision.
30• Processor's dual identity raises suspicion
By Andy Walker. When buying a computer, make sure you get what you pay for.
31• Year 2000 fixes explained
By Andy Walker. Y2k will be Okay.
32• How to control pop-up ads while surfing the web.
By Andy Walker. You're cruising around the web, not bothering anybody, and then there they are -- pop-up ads screaming for your attention all over the pages you're trying to read.
33• Programming languages are like building crews.
By Andy Walker. Of all the programming languages, which one is most desirable in the work place? It depends on what kind of work you'd be doing.
34• First Aid 97 crashes Office, but there's a fix
By Andy Walker. First Aid 97 neeeds a little first aid of its own.
35• 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.
36• 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.
37• Need help? Is help desk your best bet?
By Chris Ricci. Computer users often whine about the uselessness of technical support they would have expected to be swift, qualified and courteous.
38• There are ways to fight cyber criminals
By Andy Walker. From identity theft through abuse of your e-mail system, and then some, there seem to be no bounds to computer criminals' weird imaginations.
39• Vista incompatible with older peripherals
By Andy Walker. Microsoft might be dropping support for XP next year - or not, given that Vista still doesn't carry drivers that would help it support older equipment.
40• Embedded chips a grim Year 2000 problem
By Andy Walker. Anything with a computer chip can feasibly be affected by the Y2K bug.
41• Each viewing taste has its own screen
By Andy Walker. No matter what TV you buy, it'll take any HD source and display it just fine, thank you very much.
42• Digital time fast approaching
By Andy Walker. Governments have set deadlines for broadcasters to switch to digital and turn off analog signals.