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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• 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 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.

6• 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.

7• Stand up against hijackers

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

8• Back Orifice Trojan horse explained

By Andy Walker. True to the historical version, a Trojan horse can attack your computer without your realizing anything's going wrong.

9• Clean your Windows registry

By Don Reisinger. Sometimes the best way to fix a problem is to clean the Windows registry.

10• Free up space on your hard drive: FAQ

By Andy Walker. You can recoup large amount of space if you know exactly what you can delete from your hard drive.

11• How to clean out Internet files

By Andy Walker. Cookies aren't just delicious snacks anymore.

12• Don't throw anything away: Part 1

By Chris Ricci. New programs and applications eat memory galore.

13• Hijacked browser? Fix it!

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

14• 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.

15• 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.

16• 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.

17• How to remove AOL from Windows System Tray

By Andy Walker. Removing icons from the system tray can be easy.

18• How to print your bookmarks

By Andy Walker. You want to print your bookmarks but there's no obvious way to do it.

19• Get rid of Internet debris

By Andy Walker. Internet files can clog your drive space.

20• How to scan and print photos

By Andy Walker. With scanner/printers on the market, you can save your old hard copy photos to the computer.

21• How to enable e-mail auto-signatures

By Andy Walker. Adding auto-signatures to your outgoing email is easy.

22• CA Anti-Spam 2007 makes sense

By Ted Gallardo. While relatively effective when cleaning up Microsoft's mail applications, this spam-killer won't work on e-mail applications from other makers.

23• Help for network hookup

By Andy Walker. One of your Win95 machines has become disconnected from your network.

24• How to network several PCs

By Andy Walker. Troubleshooting a computer network is a major scare for a lot of folks.

25• 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.

26• How to create an e-mail signature tagline

By Andy Walker. If you've ever wondered how people put all those nifty personalized text at the bottoms of their emails, Cyberwalker shows you how to create your own personal email signature.

27• CA Anti-Spyware 2007: old friend's back

By Ted Gallardo. Its predecessor, eTrust PestPatrol, used to be more robust, but still, this application is one of the musts these days.

28• Back-up your address book in Outlook Express 6.0

By Andy Walker. Learn how to backup your address book with a program or with our manual instructions.

29• 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.

30• Keeping up with the Vistas of this world

By Peter Ehm. For whatever reason, Windows Vista way too often isn't familiar with some rather common (but older) applications.

31• 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.

32• Gamers need to understand batch files

By Andy Walker. If you like computer games, perhaps you might pursue a degree in computer science.

33•  Year 2000 fixes explained

By Andy Walker. Y2k will be Okay.

34• iPod can carry loads of data

By Chris Ricci. It takes just a bit of shuffling to organize your music, but once you're done, you can't beat the price-per-GB of storage the iPod offers.

35• Speed up a slow computer

By Andy Walker. Learn why you system may run slow, what causes it, and - most importantly - how to fix it.

36• Running a Mac not that difficult, after all

By Jason Kerluck. Mac has picked quite a few trick from the Windows environment, just as Windows some time ago used the Mac to improve itself.

37• How to snipe an auction

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

38• SpeedUpMyPC 2.0 - Review

By Andy Walker. Is your PC feeling kind of slow, give it a boost with SpeedUpMyPC 2.