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1• 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.
2• How to reformat and reinstall Windows XP - Method #2
By Andy Walker. Our Windows XP Reinstall and Reformat FAQ has two methods.
3• 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.
4• Where to find your IP address
By Andy Walker. If you need to know your IP address and you're having trouble finding it, here's a how-to that makes it easy.
5• 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.
6• One Window too many?
By Andy Walker. You reinstalled Windows XP on your computer thinking it would overwrite the existing version of Windows XP and now there are two copies when you boot up.
7• Hard drive grinding?
By Andy Walker. How to optimize your defragmenter and virtual memory settings.
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• 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.
10• Get help with your computer problem
By Staff. Cyberwalker.
11• Don't add RAM to speed up your box
By Andy Walker. Instead of buying and installing new RAM, you can get software that either cleans up your system, freeing it of unneeded debris, or just makes sure your memory is used for what YOU need, rather than for what other applications seem to think THEY need.
12• How to defragment your hard drive
By Andy Walker. Your computer files become disorganized over time, slowing things down.
13• Video: Clean your memory and turbocharge your PC
By Andy Walker. If you computer runs really slowly -- but it never used to -- then it may be time to clean out your system memory.
14• 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.
15• 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.
16• 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.
17• How to fix Windows disk defragmenter if it stalls
By Andy Walker. Defragmenting your hard drive is recommended maintenance for your computer.
18• Rename your router or be hacked
By Andy Walker. Change the factory settings on your home network router when you set it up.
19• What's inside a computer?
By Andy Walker. Not exactly sure what makes your computer work? All those parts seem too complicated to understand? This article will help you understand what makes a computer go.
20• Dislike NTFS? Go back to FAT32
By Andy Walker. When NTFS is not working for you, this is how to get FAT32 file system on your drive.
21• How to start in Safe Mode
By Andy Walker. You can choose your favorite way to start your computer in Safe mode.
22• How to change Virtual Memory settings
By Jason Kerluck. Higher Virtual Memory can help your computer tackle complex tasks with ease and speed of lightning.
23• Two monitors on one computer . . . Is that possible?
By Andy Walker. Yes, it is possible, but you need to know Windows 98's limitations concerning the whole idea.
24• Uniblue's SpeedUpMyPC 3
By Ted Gallardo. Put some zip back into your PC with Uniblue's SpeedUpMyPC 3.
25• Uniblue's RegistryBooster 2
By Ted Gallardo. Clean up your Windows registry with Uniblue RegistryBooster 2.
26• How to fix audio phone calls on MSN Messenger 6.1
By Andy Walker. Hello? Hello? Is this thing on? If MSN Messenger 6.
27• Never lose your e-mail address book again.
By Andy Walker. E-mail addresses are today's phone numbers.
28• Keeping home net routers safe
By Andy Walker. Most home network owners never delve inside their routers to use the hidden security settings that can be used to lock down a network nice and tight.
29• Hijacked browser? Fix it!
By Andy Walker. One technique used by spyware is to hijack your internet browser.
30• Get rid of content advisor password
By Andy Walker. If your browser has banned you from certain web sites, and you can't override it, do a little Jedi mind-trick on your computer.
31• 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.
32• How to remove AOL from Windows System Tray
By Andy Walker. Removing icons from the system tray can be easy.
33• Fix the blue screen of death
By Andy Walker. Does you system crash and show a blue screen? Here are a few tips to help you and your computer out of the mess.
34• How to reinstall Mac OS X
By Andy Walker. You may find some bad apples even among the vaunted Macintoshes.
35• How to fix web link errors
By Andy Walker. If you're having trouble reaching certain web pages on the Internet, and you know they were there before, here are some helpful tips to get you to your destinations.
36• Symantec's Norton AntiVirus 2007
By Ted Gallardo. While it does what it promises to do, and then some, this version of Norton's AntiVirus hogs too many resources and slows your computer down.
37• 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.
38• How to solve audio error messages
By Andy Walker. Windows 95 sound driver is out of date.
39• Alwil Software's avast! 4 Home Edition AntiVirus
By Ted Gallardo. Blending two tasks, such as antivirus protection and adware/spyware blocking may sound nice, but it slows you down .
40• Real alarm? Hoax?
By Andy Walker. With so many viruses and hoaxes floating around the internet these days, it's more important than ever to learn about how to know what is coming into your email inbox.
41• Be wary of the Hare virus.
By Andy Walker. Some viruses are set to launch themselves on a scheduled date or to be triggered by certain events.
42• Edit registry to fix IE content advisory password woes.
By Andy Walker. Here's how to release IE's content advisory, by editing your registry.
43• 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.
44• 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.
45• Computer Basics: What is inside a computer?
By Andy Walker. If you are new to computing, all those parts inside a computer may be really intimidating.
46• 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.
47• Computer Basics for Newcomers to Computers
By Andy Walker. We all need to start learning at the beginning.
48• Using CA Personal Firewall 2007
By Ted Gallardo. There are other security applications that keep would-be hackers at bay and away from your computer better than this one.
49• Laser printer ejects blank page
By Andy Walker. We've all had issues getting our printers to run properly.
50• Can you link a Vista box to an XP machine? Yes, you can
By Jason Kerluck. Short of upgrading your more mature computer from XP to Vista (and who would want to do that, right?), rere's relatively simple - but somewhat involved - recipe how to create a network (computers linked together) so that your XP computer and your Vista computer can communicate with each other, keeping you AND both of your computers happy.