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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• How to wipe an NTFS formated hard drive with Windows XP

By Andy Walker. Here's how to wipe a hard drive that uses NTFS as a file allocation system.

3• How to reformat and reinstall Windows XP - Method #2

By Andy Walker. Our Windows XP Reinstall and Reformat FAQ has two methods.

4• 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.

5• 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.

6•  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.

7• How to repair your MBR

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

8• How to re-install Windows ME

By Andy Walker. If you want to install Windows ME on a clean system, it's pretty easy.

9• How to downgrade Vista to XP

By Peter Ehm. It's not always nostalgia that drives us back from Vista to XP.

10• 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.

11• How to update the BIOS from a floppy

By Andy Walker. Use a floppy disk to update your BIOS on an older computer.

12• How to find lost files in Windows XP

By Andy Walker. It can be frustrating trying to find files on your computer.

13• Your BIOS needs facelift, too

By Andy Walker. If you need to update your BIOS and you have a flash BIOS chip, no worries.

14• 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.

15• 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.

16• 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.

17• 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.

18• How to fix USB mouse problems

By Andy Walker. As USB becomes a popular fixture on computers, we need to learn how to trouble shoot them.

19• How to start in Safe Mode

By Andy Walker. You can choose your favorite way to start your computer in Safe mode.

20• How to fix CRC errors

By Andy Walker. Don't fret if you are getting CRC file errors.

21• How to set-up a home network

By AndyWalker. If you have more than one computer in your home, it's easy to set up a home network.

22• 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.

23• 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.

24• 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.

25• What's connected to a computer? All about peripherals

By Andy Walker. Wondering what is connected to your PC through all those cables? Here is the skinny on computer peripherals.

26• Here's what you need for your personal home office

By Andy Walker. If you need to buy equipment for your home office, here are some Cyberwalker recommendations.

27• How to buy a small business PC

By Andy Walker. A business's computer needs are different from a home's.

28• 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.

29• 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.

30• Lost your Windows XP password?

By Chris Ricci. New developments help ease the pain of the loss that used to be almost irreparable.

31• 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!.

32• How to buy a laptop in 2004

By Andy Walker. Here are a few buying tips to think about before you spend your well-earned money on one.

33• Back-up your address book in Outlook Express 5.0

By Andy Walker. Backing up your Outlook Express address book is a step-by-step process.

34• How to print your bookmarks

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

35• Carry your world in your pocket

By Chris Ricci. Storing a computer's worth of data, moving it from computer to computer, has become a snap.

36• 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.

37• 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.

38•  How to buy a notebook computer

By Andy Walker. Laptops have come a long way since their inception.

39• 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.

40• PowerQuest Partition Magic 5.0

By Andy Walker. PowerQuest Partition Magic 5.

41• How to buy a small business computer in 2003

By Andy Walker. Purchasing a computer for a small business poses its own set of unique problems.

42• 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.

43•  Old DOS disk works on Windows, but it's risky

By Andy Walker. Many of us have old software lying around from earlier operating systems.

44• Computer basics: Devices that can connect to a computer

By Andy Walker. There are all sorts of nifty devices you can connect to a computer.

45• Blame video card for computer's strange behavior.

By Andy Walker. If your computer screen freezes often, or you have other video-related issues, this guide will help you update your video card drivers.

46• W32.Kriz is not a virus hoax

By Andy Walker. The W32.

47• How to find files you've downloaded to your computer

By Andy Walker. If you're looking for files you've downloaded from the internet, here is how you can find them.

48• Format a Floppy Disk

By Andy Walker. Instructions on how to format a floppy disk using different operating systems.

49• Zipping through computer world

By Andy Walker. Even the biggest hard drive or the fastest connection aren't big or fast enough for some huge files.

50• Direct cable connection: How to link two machines

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



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