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

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

2• How to repair your MBR

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

3• 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.

4• L2 cache ... HUH?

By Andy Walker. Computer terms can be vague.

5• Getting a printable list of files in DOS

By Andy Walker. If you need to print out the list of files in a Windows folder, you're going to learn how to do it in a snap by reading this article.

6• How to fix your monitor's colors after a reinstall

By Andy Walker. You had reason to reinstall Windows and now your monitor's colors look really awful.

7• 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.

8• How to defragment your computer's hard drive

By Andy Walker. Part of your computer housekeeping should be to run Disk Defragmenter regularly.

9• How to fix Windows disk defragmenter if it stalls

By Andy Walker. Defragmenting your hard drive is recommended maintenance for your computer.

10• How to create an autoresponder in Outlook 2002

By Andy Walker. Set Outlook 2002's auto-responder to make sure people who correspond with you know you're away, not ignoring their messages.

11• Clean your Windows registry

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

12•  How to remove unwanted pop-up ads

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

13• 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.

14• Windows users can open Mac's SIT files.

By Andy Walker. Here's a handy free utility that lets your PC use SIT files created on a Mac.

15• Hijacked browser? Fix it!

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

16• USB: A handy guide

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

17• 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.

18• How to create an autoresponder in Outlook 2000

By Andy Walker. Outlook 2000 has an automatic email "answering machine".

19• 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.

20• Computer myths: legends or truth?

By Peter Ehm. Some of the stories sound logical, and they might have been.

21• 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!.

22• Get hackers out of your home

By Andy Walker. The arrival of broadband Internet access has opened up a new playground for hackers: home computers.

23• 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.

24• Is your link fast enough? Check it!

By Andy Walker. You can test your connection to see how fast your speedy connection really is.

25• 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.

26• RAM chips don't mix.

By Andy Walker. Computer motherboards are finicky things.

27• How to fool e-mail worms and stop them cold

By Andy Walker. Sometimes there are little tricks you can do to keep viruses at bay, but are they worth it?.

28• 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.

29• Video Newsletter: Multi-core processors demystified

By Andy Walker. Computers have more than one brain these days.

30• Don't throw anything away: Part 2

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

31• EAST Technologies' East-Tec Eraser 2007

By Ted Gallardo. Delete files safely and securely, and wipe your Internet browser history, too.

32• Uniblue's WinTasks 5 Professional

By Ted Gallardo. Get back control of your PC processes with Uniblue's WinTasks 5 Professional.

33• Be the master of your e-mail

By Andy Walker. Pick the e-mail you want, not the one your browser wants.

34• Be a master of your domain

By Chris Ricci. Build you own web site and communicate with the rest of the world.

35• Getting the static out

By Andy Walker. In the age of electronics, static interference comes from many sources.

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37• 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.

38• OLED a real display revolution

By Jason Kerluck. Imagine T-shirts that can change their pictures wirelessly: and that's only one of the many things OLED can do.

39• 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.

40• 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.

41• LabRats #097: Why one screen if you can have two?

By Cyberwalker staff. If you want (or need) to be more effective and efficient, and you want (or need) to keep more than one application active at the same time on your computer, multi-monitor set-ups work like magic.

42• Screensavers have pluses and minuses

By Chris Ricci. They do help protect your monitor from screen burn-in, but beware many third-party screensavers: they carry loads of spyware and adware.

43• Better safe than sorry

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

44• Have gadgets, will travel

By Andy Walker. It used to be we'd travel out of eagerness to see new places and meet new people.

45• Windows XP is here. Is it right for you?

By Andy Walker. Upgrading to a new computer operating system is always a big decision.

46• 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.

47• Browser-jacking endangers us all

By Cyberwalker Staff. The DSSAgent might send over 10,000 Internet requests in 15 minutes, slowing network traffic, and not only that: when you go to go a perfectly innocent site a hard-porn page show up instead.

48• How to clean your computer

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

49• Internal changes scared your computer silly?

By Andy Walker. Power on .

50• Changing Windows Live Messenger settings

By Jason Kerluck. Here's how parents can make sure their children need not worry about predators on the web.