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1• How to repair your MBR

By Andy Walker. The boot process is quite mysterious and not always logical.

2• 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.

3• Minimize wireless interference

By Andy Walker. An article about the effects of home electronics on your Wi-Fi connection.

4• 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.

5• To fix a PC clock problem, get a new system battery

By Andy Walker. Does your computer keep forgetting what time it is? Depending on your luck, you could be looking at a minor repair or a major one.

6• A radical approach to tinkering with a hard drive

By Andy Walker. If you're going to format your C: drive, be sure to do it right.

7• Linus Torvalds' double life

By Andy Walker. Andy Walker catches up with Linux Torvalds in 2000 and talks to him about the operating system that changed his life and the computing world.

8• Never lose your e-mail address book again.

By Andy Walker. E-mail addresses are today's phone numbers.

9• USB: A handy guide

By Andy Walker. USB is great - you just have to make sure your operating system is ready for it.

10• BO2K and Trojan Horse viruses

By Andy Walker. A Trojan horse can be a program that appears to be helpful, but actually is destructive in nature.

11• How to troubleshoot Windows crashes

By Andy Walker. If you have the dreaded "Blue Screen of Death," this article will help you determine the cause, and how to alleviate it.

12• Same box, different results

By Andy Walker. Computers of similar make and build often perform differently.

13• Windows caught in the cookie jar

By Andy Walker. Cookies.

14• Hard-drive shuffle tough to master

By Andy Walker. Want to know how to switch your hard drives and their corresponding drive letters? Here's how!.

15• Faulty cable skews color on monitor.

By Andy Walker. Good connections are always important in relationships, and machines as well.

16• Hard drive sound like a dentist's drill

By Andy Walker. Hard drive is constantly working.

17• Motherboard search is like a blue plate special.

By Andy Walker. How do I get the best computer component around? What do I buy, and from whom? Cyberwalker shares a little down-home wisdom he learned about shopping.

18• How to repair your master boot record if it's infected with a virus

By Andy Walker. Learn how to fix, recover and repair the master boot record if it is infected with a virus.

19• 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.

20• CMOS changes necessary to fix game card

By Andy Walker. If you're having problems installing new sound or video cards, this article may help you.

21• Help for network hookup

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

22• E-commerce imports tax Canadians

By Andy Walker. If you're buying items over the Internet, it's important to be aware of what your tax liabilities may be.

23• 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.

24• Monitor signal degradation

By Andy Walker. If you need an extension cable for your monitor, your best bet might be to move it closer to the CPU.

25• Upgraded 486 will never perform like a Pentium

By Andy Walker. No one wants to hear these words, but sometimes it's the plain truth.

26• Neat program cleans out old URLs

By Andy Walker. Netscape Navigator just seems to like to cling to old URLs.

27• Should the web be like a family reunion?

By Andy Walker. You don't have to share your personal information with a site just because it tries to get it from you.

28• Swap your hard drives to install IE 4

By Andy Walker. Save yourself some time by making sure you have enough space before you start an installation.

29• Computer orphans explained

By Andy Walker. The Child Protective Service has no real interest in this article, but you might.

30• Going wireless with a cell phone and modem in 1997

By Andy Walker. Ready to hit the road and want to stay in touch? You can use your cell phone with your laptop to connect (almost) any time.

31• Fry, baby, fry -- MMX inferno

By Andy Walker. If you're upgrading your computer, make sure all the components are compatible.

32• Reformatting partitioned drives

By Andy Walker. The "format" command is very powerful but, in this case, it's also very specific.

33• Reinstall Windows after swapping your motherboard

By Andy Walker. Did you know Windows files keeps an inventory of your component? Cool.

34• 911 for damaged registry

By Andy Walker. Your registry is damaged, perhaps beyond recognition.

35• Keeping your registry clean

By Chris Thorp. Corrupt registry drives your computer to a standstill.

36• OSGI yi yi

By Andy Walker. Firmware updates for everybody!.

37• Baud rate and bits per second

By Andy Walker. There's only a little you need to know about the difference between baud and bits per second, and it's all right here.

38•  Dump the freebie zip utility.

By Andy Walker. Having problems with the data compression software you got for free? Here are a few recommendations for better performance.

39• Best resolutions for scanning still photos

By Andy Walker. Let Cyberwalker help take the guesswork out of scanner resolution settings.

40• Direct cable connection: How to link two machines

By Andy Walker. A real easy way to link two home computers together.

41• How to clean your computer

By Andy Walker. A how to on keeping system damaging dirt down to a minimum.

42• ISPs under hacker attacks

By Andy Walker. Internet hackers have the ability to slow or shut down websites through an attack called a "denial of service".

43• Processor's dual identity raises suspicion

By Andy Walker. When buying a computer, make sure you get what you pay for.

44•  Year 2000 fixes explained

By Andy Walker. Y2k will be Okay.

45• Reorder installation to solve scanner and printer problem

By Andy Walker. Yes, you read that right.

46• Unexplained sign-ons to the internet

By Andy Walker. If your computer goes online when you're not around, it may just be checking on a subscribed site.

47• Making sense of 56K modems

By Andy Walker. High-speed modems can be confusing to even the most computer literate person.

48• When your modem conflicts with a digital phone system

By Andy Walker. Your office has a digital phone system, and you want to use a dial-up modem.

49• Windows shuts down fax upgrade

By Andy Walker. To get Windows 95 to work with your upgraded fax modem, you have to show the system what you've done.

50• FAT facts for partitioners

By Andy Walker. For those who are curious what FAT or FAT32 is, here you go.



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