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1• Your BIOS needs facelift, too

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

2• Get help without leaving your home

By Chris Ricci. Not everything can be fixed by a far-away technician, but with a little preparation, you get an expert at least figure out what needs to be fixed.

3• 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.

4• 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.

5• Ready, aim, snap - and edit

By Chris Ricci. A host of photo editing suites is available via the web.

6• 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.

7• Hard drive sound like a dentist's drill

By Andy Walker. Hard drive is constantly working.

8• Windows supports backward compatibility

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

9• Portable player gone wild

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

10• Applications ignore one another

By Chris Ricci. Office programs are often incompatible, but you can now get around the challenge.

11• Keeping up with the Vistas of this world

By Peter Ehm. For whatever reason, Windows Vista way too often isn't familiar with some rather common (but older) applications.

12• 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.

13• Service Pack 1: will it deliver Vista to its glory?

By Jason Kerluck. It took two service packs to make Windows XP the good, old and reliable benchmark it is today.

14• Webcams: will they deliver?

By Peter Ehm. There are way too many webcams on the market, not all of them compatible with operating systems or instant messaging software we're using.