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1• Wipe adult content from your PC

By Andy Walker. Need to delete your Internet Browser history to keep those nosy people from tracking your web surfing habits? This guide will show your how to do so.

2• Computer Ports and Connectors: A Quick Reference

By Andy Walker. With this guide, you can easily identify all those mysterious looking holes on the back of your computer.

3•  How to add a second hard drive

By Andy Walker. Need more hard drive space? Cyberwalker will tell you how to add more!.

4• How to downgrade Vista to XP

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

5• Call and see whom you're talking to

By Andy Walker. MSN's Messenger becomes a tool that we used to think of in the context of science-fiction.

6•  How to add USB 2.0 to your PC

By Andy Walker. Can you use a newer USB device on an older USB port? Read this article to find out.

7• Your BIOS needs facelift, too

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

8•  How to add USB ports to your PC

By Andy Walker. If you find yourself having to unplug one USB device in order to use another, Cyberwalker can show you how to add more USB ports to your computer.

9• How to fix your printer

By Andy Walker. Printers seem to be the source of a lot of the problems faced by computer users today.

10•  Universal Serial Bus (or USB) Port

By Andy Walker. Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports are a mainstay in modern computing.

11• PS/2 Port

By Andy Walker. Here you can see exactly what the port for your mouse connector looks like.

12• 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.

13• 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.

14• Ethernet (or Network) Port

By Andy Walker. What is a an Ethernet port, and what exactly does it look like?.

15• Modem Port

By Andy Walker. Need to connect a modem to your computer? This article will show you exactly what the connectors look like, and how to connect them.

16• Serial Port

By Andy Walker. Serial Ports explained, with an image to help you identify them.

17• 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.

18• A guide to those weird ports on the back of your computer

By Andy Walker. Don't be intimidated by all the different connections on the back of your computer.

19• Parallel Ports

By Andy Walker. What the parallel port is used for, and what it looks like.

20• 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.

21• Video DB9-15 Port

By Andy Walker. Curious as to what the video connector looks like? Cyberwalker shows you so you can hook up your monitor.

22• IEEE 1394

By Andy Walker. Find out just what IEEE 1394 is.

23• Brand-name? A clone? A tough call

By Andy Walker. What is the difference between a brand name and a clone computer? Is there a difference?.

24• USB: A handy guide

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

25• How to buy a small business PC

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

26• Power Connector

By Andy Walker. Cyberwalker shows you where a power port is located on your computer and what it looks like.

27• Keeping your data safe

By Peter Ehm. Since the time of tapes or unending boxes of floppies all the way to storing critical data on alternate media, our lives have become safer.

28• 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.

29• 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.

30• 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.

31• Hard drive backup made easy

By Andy Walker. When you're looking for a solid hard-drive-based backup solution, Seagate external hard drives are a great choice.

32• Beware Internet crime

By Chris Ricci. Your information is a valuable commodity and the better you protect it, the safer you are.

33• 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.

34• 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.

35• 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.

36• Portable player gone wild

By Chris Ricci. An FM tuner, a memory card AND a television screen? That's future that's happening today.

37• 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.

38• An easy guide to associating files with Windows programs

By Andy Walker. Sometimes a computer needs help deciding what program to use when opening files.

39• iPod: music on the go

By Stephen Saylor. We used to attend concerts and go to live theatres.

40• How to buy a digital camera

By Andy Walker. If you're looking at buying a digital camera, Cyberwalker can show you the ins and outs of these seemingly complex cameras.

41• Find an old scanner for old PC

By Andy Walker. Many times you want to find compatible peripherals for an older system.

42• Power: a good servant, an awful master

By Peter Ehm. Surge protectors and Uninterruptible Power Supply units (UPS) can save your computer and your sanity, too.

43• LabRats #092: at New Media Expo 2007, I

By Cyberwalker staff. Podcasts are another new media foray into the world of news and entertainment information.

44• iPod can carry loads of data

By Chris Ricci. It takes just a bit of shuffling to organize your music, but once you're done, you can't beat the price-per-GB of storage the iPod offers.

45• LabRats #093: at New Media Expo 2007, II

By Cyberwalker staff. Podcasts are here to stay, their creators believe, and numbers seem to indicate they know whereof they speak.

46• LabRats #078: Understanding USB

By Cyberwalker Staff. USB ports work much faster than their serial and parallel predecessors, but they have an occasional bug flying in now and then.

47• How to turn off prompt to log off Net in Internet Explorer 4

By Andy Walker. Many times prompts are just a matter of adjusting settings.

48• Ding dong the PDA is dead

By Andy Walker. Is that a computer on your wrist? .

49• Vista: a greedy little devil

By Jason Kerluck. Microsoft's (relatively) new operating system can be as it beautiful as a program can get, but - just like princesses in fairy tales - it requires considerable help from your computer before it even begins thinking of operating smoothly.

50• Cheating your way through life: 2

By Chris Ricci. Gaming, music and video industries try to protect their property, but hackers beat their systems hands down: Part 2.