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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• Get rid of trash on your hard drive

By Andy Walker. Use these methods to find/delete hidden and unwanted files to maximize your hard drive space.

3• How to Clean out Unwanted Files Hidden on Your Hard Drive

By Andy Walker. There are many hidden files on a Windows computer.

4• Get help with your computer problem

By Staff. Cyberwalker.

5• How to defragment your computer's hard drive

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

6• Clean your Windows registry

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

7• Free up space on your hard drive: FAQ

By Andy Walker. You can recoup large amount of space if you know exactly what you can delete from your hard drive.

8• How to remove fonts

By Andy Walker. Do you absolutely have to keep every single version of every single font on your computer? Not necessarily.

9• How to reinstall Mac OS X

By Andy Walker. You may find some bad apples even among the vaunted Macintoshes.

10• 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.

11• 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.

12• CCleaner

By Ted Gallardo. While not as robust as some of its pricier cousins, this application delivers on its promise to keep your computer reasonably clean of unwanted temporary files.

13• 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.

14• What's behind the file extensions?

By Andy Walker. They come in all sorts.

15• Clean unwanted programs

By AndyWalker. Uninstalling programs is simple.

16• Neat program cleans out old URLs

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

17• Windows on Windows is messy

By Andy Walker. If you have two operating systems on your computer, you may be in for a hard time if you remove one of them.

18• Computer orphans explained

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

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• Windows supports backward compatibility

By Andy Walker. Windows 95 provided a way for users to use DOS programs.

21• A remote control of your dreams

By Chris Ricci. It's not for those who can't program a VCR, but for even a borderline geek, this is a dream-come-true device.

22• Uninstall a Program

By Andy Walker. How to use the Add/Remove Program function.

23• Power Toys to the rescue

By Andy Walker. Incomplete uninstallations can leave a program's name on your programs list.

24• Send garbage where it belongs

By Chris Ricci. Get rid of software you won't need to reclaim precious hard drive space.

25• Too many fonts?

By Andy Walker. Maybe you just want to be able to manage them better.

26• Make sure your MS Office is legal

By Chris Ricci. There's a world of difference between Original Equipment Manufacturer installations of Microsoft applications and retail-boxed versions, price being one of them, bells and whistles the other.

27• Reorder installation to solve scanner and printer problem

By Andy Walker. Yes, you read that right.

28• Out with the old? Why?

By Chris Ricci. Get rid of most of the software bells and whistles to get a faster-running machine without spending a penny.

29• Blame clients for service they don't get

By Chris Ricci. Customers often don't know what they want, and they won't stop whining until they get it, technicians complain in this, the second part of a two-part expose of customer - support relationship.

30• Why all this clutter? Throw it out!

By Chris Ricci. Windows XP comes loaded with goodies .

31• LabRats #079: Software surgery

By Cyberwalker staff. Usually, you uninstall software.

32• Don't shoot the Messenger, remove it

By Chris Ricci. If you're not using MSN Messenger, and many of us don't, it's only cluttering your space.

33• Get Personal Help from Cyberwalker

By Andy Walker. Get personal help from us.

34• Cyberwalker Radio Episode 008

By staff. Uninstalling, spyware, memory leaks, and more!.

35• Get your Windows back to health

By Peter Ehm. You can restore your system to happier times when your computer was humming along to your pleasure in a few easy-to-follow steps.

36• Cyberwalker Radio Episode 026

By staff. October 10th, 2006: Blu-Ray, Tivo in Canada, deleting files and the ever popular BSOD.