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1• How to fix your printer

By Andy Walker. Printers seem to be the source of a lot of the problems faced by computer users today.

2• How to defragment your hard drive

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

3• 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.

4• Avoid fake Wi-Fi access points

By Andy Walker. Your computer seems to become an access point for a network, which it isn't.

5• How to reinstall Mac OS X

By Andy Walker. You may find some bad apples even among the vaunted Macintoshes.

6• CA Internet Security Suite 2007: go for it

By Ted Gallardo. Fighting viruses, spyware and spam behind one firewall is rather attractive but ability to concentrate its controls into one spot would be even more helpful.

7• Symantec's Norton AntiVirus 2007

By Ted Gallardo. While it does what it promises to do, and then some, this version of Norton's AntiVirus hogs too many resources and slows your computer down.

8• 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.

9• 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.

10•  Windows and its versions up through Windows 2000

By Andy Walker. Here's an overview of where Windows has been and where it's going.

11• Better safe than sorry

By Chris Blackwell. The more we depend on computers, the more we depend on their security.

12• 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.

13• It's a small web, after all

By Andy Walker. We no longer shake hands.

14• Find an old scanner for old PC

By Andy Walker. Many times you want to find compatible peripherals for an older system.

15• 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.

16• How to snipe an auction

By Chris Ricci. Losing an auction in the dying seconds is no fun .