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1• How to Add RAM

By Andy Walker. Got questions about adding memory to your computer? We've got the answers.

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• Wipe adult content from your PC

By Andy Walker. Need to delete your Internet Browser history to keep those nosy people from tracking your web surfing habits? This guide will show your how to do so.

4• L2 cache ... HUH?

By Andy Walker. Computer terms can be vague.

5• 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.

6• Stand up against hijackers

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

7• Video: Clean your memory and turbocharge your PC

By Andy Walker. If you computer runs really slowly -- but it never used to -- then it may be time to clean out your system memory.

8• How to defragment your computer's hard drive

By Andy Walker. Part of your computer housekeeping should be to run Disk Defragmenter regularly.

9• How to shop for a sound card for your computer

By Andy Walker. There are all types of sound cards available on the market today.

10• What's inside a computer?

By Andy Walker. Not exactly sure what makes your computer work? All those parts seem too complicated to understand? This article will help you understand what makes a computer go.

11• How to change Virtual Memory settings

By Jason Kerluck. Higher Virtual Memory can help your computer tackle complex tasks with ease and speed of lightning.

12• Need to send a huge file? Shrink it!

By Andy Walker. Sending large e-mail attachments has never been easier.

13• Learn Vista the easy way

By Cyberwalker staff. New DVD introduces computer enthusiasts to Windows Vista, Microsoft's new operating system.

14• Rid your browser of naughty stuff

By Andy Walker. What to do if you don't want others to see that you've visited certain sites.

15• 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.

16• 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.

17• Hijacked browser? Fix it!

By Andy Walker. One technique used by spyware is to hijack your internet browser.

18• How to wipe adult content

By Cyberwalker staff. These applications will help clean your computer of adult images, movies and content.

19• 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.

20• USB: A handy guide

By Andy Walker. USB is great - you just have to make sure your operating system is ready for it.

21• 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.

22•  Should I upgrade to the Windows XP operating system?

By Andy Walker. To move up to XP or not to move up to XP -- that is the question.

23• How to choose a computer monitor

By Andy Walker. Upgrading your computer for better performance is a popular thing to do.

24• More RAM can stop that grinding sound

By Jason Kerluck. Computer running slow? You can't get rid of any of the applications you've got installed because you need them all? Get yourself (and your computer) a tad more RAM.

25• Making your MP3 files mobile

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

26• CCleaner

By Ted Gallardo. While not as robust as some of its pricier cousins, this application delivers on its promise to keep your computer reasonably clean of unwanted temporary files.

27• 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.

28• Computer too noisy? It's getting too hot

By Chris Ricci. Fans inside your computer case can - and do - break down.

29• EAST Technologies' East-Tec Eraser 2007

By Ted Gallardo. Delete files safely and securely, and wipe your Internet browser history, too.

30• Be a master of your domain

By Chris Ricci. Build you own web site and communicate with the rest of the world.

31• WiMAX comes calling

By Andy Walker. First came DSL and cable Internet to provide high speed Internet to your home.

32• Computer Basics: What is inside a computer?

By Andy Walker. If you are new to computing, all those parts inside a computer may be really intimidating.

33• Dealing with downloaded files

By Andy Walker. Downloading files through the Internet can be very satisfying but sometimes it can also be a hassle.

34• Inkjet and laser: a printer primer

By Peter Ehm. As we've entered the self-service era in photography, it's important to know whether we prefer inkjet or laser printer.

35• LabRats #091: Give new muscle to old computer

By Cyberwalker staff. If you need or want your machine to run faster and do more things than it has been doing thus far, there are quite a few ways how to achieve this noble goal efficiently, effectively and without having to break the bank.

36• ZIP? BinHex? UUencode? What's that?

By Andy Walker. What are these compression codes and how do they work?.

37• 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.

38• Can you link a Vista box to an XP machine? Yes, you can

By Jason Kerluck. Short of upgrading your more mature computer from XP to Vista (and who would want to do that, right?), rere's relatively simple - but somewhat involved - recipe how to create a network (computers linked together) so that your XP computer and your Vista computer can communicate with each other, keeping you AND both of your computers happy.

39• 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.

40• 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.

41• 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.

42• Odds and sods in helpful hints

By Andy Walker. Cyberwalker musings.

43• Have gadgets, will travel

By Andy Walker. It used to be we'd travel out of eagerness to see new places and meet new people.

44• iPod: music on the go

By Stephen Saylor. We used to attend concerts and go to live theatres.

45• Cyberwalker Radio Episode 044

By staff. Aired April 10, 2007: Port Forwarding, Fast User Switching and other fun stuff.

46• HDTV format war: whose side to take?

By Peter Ehm. Blu-ray and HDTV have both their pluses and minuses.

47• Log on to the millennium at GigaHertz speed

By Andy Walker. Should you get what is available now or wait for what's new in the next year?.

48• Zipping through computer world

By Andy Walker. Even the biggest hard drive or the fastest connection aren't big or fast enough for some huge files.

49• Camera Phones Exposed

By Andy Walker. Camera Phones.

50• Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac

By Randy Walker. Many computer users like Windows applications so much, they want to be able to run them even on Mac computers.



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