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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• How to Add RAM
By Andy Walker. Got questions about adding memory to your computer? We've got the answers.
3• 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.
4• 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.
5• Where to find your IP address
By Andy Walker. If you need to know your IP address and you're having trouble finding it, here's a how-to that makes it easy.
6• How to reformat and reinstall Windows Vista
By Andy Walker. Before you decide to reformat and reinstall your Windows Vista, there are several important things to consider.
7• File system? Which Windows uses what
By Andy Walker. If you need to figure out your filing system on your Windows operating system, this article's for you.
8• Wipe Vista in two steps: Part 1
By Andy Walker. This two-part process shows you how to edit your BIOS and then boot from your Vista install DVD, then wipe the Vista partition and put a fresh copy of the operating system on it.
9• How to detect and remove spyware
By Andy Walker. Arm yourself with the knowledge and the tools to protect yourself from spyware's malicious work.
10• How to get rid of programs on the bottom right of Windows
By Andy Walker. Why programs place icons in the system tray and how to remove them.
11• Easy reinstall for Windows Vista
By Andy Walker. If you want to take advantage of Windows Vista's new reinstall option from the desktop, start with this article.
12• 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.
13• More ways to clean up Vista
By Cyberwalker staff. Wiping your system clean and reinstalling Windows Vista is a time-consuming project.
14• How to downgrade Vista to XP
By Peter Ehm. It's not always nostalgia that drives us back from Vista to XP.
15• 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.
16• Compare Vista versions
By Andy Walker. Did you know there are nine versions of Windows Vista? Here's a breakdown.
17• 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.
18• Introduction to Windows Vista
By By Andy Walker. A tour of the new Windows Vista operating system, released by Microsoft at the end of January 2007.
19• Learn Vista the easy way
By Cyberwalker staff. New DVD introduces computer enthusiasts to Windows Vista, Microsoft's new operating system.
20• 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.
21• How to buy a small business PC
By Andy Walker. A business's computer needs are different from a home's.
22• 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.
23• 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.
24• Not simple to erase Netscape Navigator's trail
By . If you can edit a plain text file, you can delete the contents of Netscape's pull-down URL menus.
25• 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.
26• 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.
27• Avoid fake Wi-Fi access points
By Andy Walker. Your computer seems to become an access point for a network, which it isn't.
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• Video Newsletter: Multi-core processors demystified
By Andy Walker. Computers have more than one brain these days.
30• 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.
31• Upgrade from Vista to XP?
By Jason Kerluck. Vista is a resource hog, and it's slow, and it's unstable, so why not replace it with good, old and reliable XP? Not so fast: this switch could pose a host of challenges, some of them almost impossible to overcome.
32• Uniblue's WinTasks 5 Professional
By Ted Gallardo. Get back control of your PC processes with Uniblue's WinTasks 5 Professional.
33• EAST Technologies' East-Tec Eraser 2007
By Ted Gallardo. Delete files safely and securely, and wipe your Internet browser history, too.
34• Getting Start with Windows Vista DVD
By by Andy Walker. Learn how to use Windows Vista with Andy Walker in his new DVD.
35• Vista makes networking easier
By Andy Walker. Unlike previous Windows operating systems, Vista lets users set up their networks with relative ease.
36• Keeping your data safe
By Peter Ehm. Since the time of tapes or unending boxes of floppies all the way to storing critical data on alternate media, our lives have become safer.
37• 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.
38• Search and find
By Andy Walker. It's a hassle sifting through irrelevant pages in your search results.
39• A beautiful Vista with a word of caution
By Andy Walker. New OS certainly an improvement over the older ones, including XP, and it does wow most of the time, but it still has a ways to go before becoming an ideal.
40• Safer Networking's Spybot - Search & Destroy
By Ted Gallardo. Simple, straightforward, easy to use, this is one of the few applications to offer a free real-time protection monitor.
41• Stop annoying ads on your desktop
By Andy Walker. Do ads pop open on your computer even if you're not doing anything? You are infected with spyware.
42• 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.
43• LabRats #098: Make Vista and XP talk to each other
By Cyberwalker staff. What if you have a set of pictures on your computer in the basement and want to show them to friends while you're sitting by your laptop by the fireplace in the living room? Simple: network 'em!.
44• CA Anti-Virus 2007 a must tool
By Ted Gallardo. The layout of the settings window is easy to use, navigate and understand, but the help file, while helpful, should be an integral part of the controls.
45• 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.
46• 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.
47• Cyberwalker Radio Episode 053
By Staff. Originally Aired June 19th, 2007: Little Geeks Fundraiser, Andy's new book and caller questions.
48• How to buy a new computer to suit your needs
By Jason Kerluck. Before even entering the store, sit down and decide what it is you'll need your new computer for.
49• Better safe than sorry
By Chris Blackwell. The more we depend on computers, the more we depend on their security.
50• 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.