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1• 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.

2• 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.

3• 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.

4• 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.

5• Survivor tools

By Staff. More and more websites are available now that can ferret out viruses and spyware on your computer.

6• 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.

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 detect and remove spyware

By Andy Walker. Arm yourself with the knowledge and the tools to protect yourself from spyware's malicious work.

9• How to reformat your hard drive and reinstall Windows 95

By Andy Walker. When you need step by step instructions on reinstalling Windows 95, we are here to help.

10• Bringing Windows 95 back to life

By Andy Walker. How to reformat your hard drive and reinstall Windows 95? It sounds scary, but it doesn't have to be.

11•  How to remove unwanted pop-up ads

By Andy Walker. Stop spying software from installing without permission.

12• How to clean out Internet files

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

13• Video: How to clean spyware and stop future infections

By Andy Walker. In this video, learn how to clean out your computer and remove spyware, adware and other nasty stuff that may be infecting your computer using thre different products, two of which are free!.

14• The future of chip technology

By Andy Walker. Moore's Law has about a decade before chipmakers start running out of ways to miniaturize silicon wafers, but new non-silicon chips may save the day.

15• Get rid of Internet debris

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

16• 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.

17• 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.

18• How to protect yourself against the Love Bug

By Andy Walker. The Love Bug, a/k/a the "I Love You" virus, is one of the latest in an annoyingly persistent series of viruses with malicious payloads.

19• 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.

20• Return to XP an involved operation

By Jason Kerluck. Restoring your hard drive so XP installer can see what it's doing is not easy, but it's worth the effort to the many who prefer the older operating system to Vista.

21• Chip overclocking makes PC faster, but be careful.

By Andy Walker. Overclocking a PC doesn't make time go faster -- it makes your processor run faster than it was meant to.

22• Better safe than sorry

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

23• W32.Kriz is not a virus hoax

By Andy Walker. The W32.

24• New worm out in the wild is lethal.

By Andy Walker. ExploreZip is a worm so aggressive that it caused more than one company's email system to crash.

25• Cyberwalker Radio Episode 038

By . February 6th, 2006: Andy's latest project, Office 2007 and spyware questions.

26• Cyberwalker Radio Episode 043

By staff. March 20th, 2007: Memory Problems, Viruses and Backing up a PC.

27• Get used to employing safe-surfing habits

By Peter Ehm. The cyber-world is not as dangerous as the many headlines would make us believe, but it's still too dangerous to keep us entirely comfortable.

28• 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.

29• Cyberwalker Radio Episode 033

By . December 5th, 2006: Spyware, DSL and upgrading a computer.

30• Safe on the cheap

By Peter Ehm. There are some freeware security application titles that would give their most expensive siblings a good run for their money.

31• Cyberwalker Radio Episode 031

By staff. November 21th, 2006: Site Launch, Little Geeks, Spyware and more.

32• Getting around the Mac

By Jason Kerluck. The differences between how to use Windows and how to use Mac are not that huge and impossible to get used to, after all.

33• So who's limping? Mac or PC?

By Jason Kerluck. The differences between the two systems seem to have faded lately.

34• Cyberwalker Radio Episode 022

By staff. August 23rd 2006: Spyware, overheating, card reader, and hard drive troubles.