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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• 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• How to update a driver
By Staff. When you change your operating system, such as upgrade from XP to Vista, some of your peripheral equipment will be upset.
4• Reformat your hard drive using Windows 98
By Andy Walker. It makes perfect sense to do so once in a while, if only to keep your box running like a race horse.
5• 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.
6• Hard drive grinding?
By Andy Walker. How to optimize your defragmenter and virtual memory settings.
7• How to re-install Windows ME
By Andy Walker. If you want to install Windows ME on a clean system, it's pretty easy.
8• How to downgrade Vista to XP
By Peter Ehm. It's not always nostalgia that drives us back from Vista to XP.
9• Reformat and reinstall Windows 98 on your laptop
By Andy Walker. If you need to reinstall Windows 98 on your laptop computer, there are different ways to do it depending on how your particular system is set up.
10• Get rid of trash on your hard drive
By Andy Walker. Use these methods to find/delete hidden and unwanted files to maximize your hard drive space.
11• 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.
12• How to Clean out Unwanted Files Hidden on Your Hard Drive
By Andy Walker. There are many hidden files on a Windows computer.
13• 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.
14• 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.
15• 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.
16• Going ... going ... GONE!
By Andy Walker. When you delete a file is it really gone? The answer is no, but there are ways to delete information permanently.
17• How to fix Windows disk defragmenter if it stalls
By Andy Walker. Defragmenting your hard drive is recommended maintenance for your computer.
18• How to start in Safe Mode
By Andy Walker. You can choose your favorite way to start your computer in Safe mode.
19• Wipe the hard drive clean
By Andy Walker. Data deleted from the hard drive may seem permanently gone, but it may really still exist on your system.
20• Clean your Windows registry
By Don Reisinger. Sometimes the best way to fix a problem is to clean the Windows registry.
21• 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.
22• Make XP look and work like Vista
By Andy Walker. If you don't have the hardware to upgrade to Windows Vista, you can still make Windows XP look and feel just like it.
23• Never lose your e-mail address book again.
By Andy Walker. E-mail addresses are today's phone numbers.
24• Avoid fake Wi-Fi access points
By Andy Walker. Your computer seems to become an access point for a network, which it isn't.
25• What to do when defrag says there's not enough memory
By Andy Walker. Cyberwalker explains the problems behind a mysterious error message you might get when launching Defrag or Scandisk.
26• 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.
27• Get help without leaving your home
By Chris Ricci. Not everything can be fixed by a far-away technician, but with a little preparation, you get an expert at least figure out what needs to be fixed.
28• Grisoft's AVG Anti-Spyware Free
By Ted Gallardo. A solid, dependable anti-spyware application that is easy for any level of computer user.
29• Save up to 25% off with our August 07 coupons
By Craig Worden. This month we offer three coupons up to 25% off on handy software tools, including an antispyware program, a driver update tool and an icon editor.
30• Making your MP3 files mobile
By Jonathan Walker. You don't have to be chained to your PC to listen to your MP3 files.
31• How to reinstall Mac OS X
By Andy Walker. You may find some bad apples even among the vaunted Macintoshes.
32• 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.
33• 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.
34• Is your link fast enough? Check it!
By Andy Walker. You can test your connection to see how fast your speedy connection really is.
35• Hard drive sound like a dentist's drill
By Andy Walker. Hard drive is constantly working.
36• How to set up a dual booting PC easily
By Andy Walker. Dual booting can be a tricky thing.
37• Bigger is always better when buying hard drives
By Andy Walker. When you shop for a hard drive, shop for more than you need right this minute.
38• How to network several PCs
By Andy Walker. Troubleshooting a computer network is a major scare for a lot of folks.
39• How to play sound via the PC speaker
By Andy Walker. A trick to play a WAV file when your system isn't set up to play other sounds.
40• Forcing Windows to obey
By Andy Walker. What to do when your Windows 95 or 98 system won't completely shut down when you tell it to.
41• Plug-n-Play efforts
By Andy Walker. Upgrading your computer can be a serious undertaking.
42• 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.
43• Clean unwanted programs
By AndyWalker. Uninstalling programs is simple.
44• PowerQuest Partition Magic 5.0
By Andy Walker. PowerQuest Partition Magic 5.
45• 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.
46• 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.
47• CleanSweep cleans out web debris.
By Andy Walker. Adding CleanSweep to your computer is like getting a housekeeper for your PC - just give it the word, and it'll straighten things up for you.
48• Applications ignore one another
By Chris Ricci. Office programs are often incompatible, but you can now get around the challenge.
49• 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.
50• Odds and sods in helpful hints
By Andy Walker. Cyberwalker musings.