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Here's a list of archived columns by topics. It may make your search faster. You can also look for columns using our Atomic Site Search, via the Most Popular How-tos page or chronological column archives.
Computer clean-up
- How to get help with your technology troubles
- How to clean unwanted files hidden on your hard drive
- How to delete spyware
- Tweak UI helps clean up overcrowded hard drives
- How to clean Windows start-up
- Your cyberworld needs a good spring cleaning
- How to delete icons from the System Tray
- Temporary files clutter up the hard drive
- Cleanout only solution to dreaded blue screen
- Rebuild your Mac hard drive
- Reformat your PC's hard drive
- Wipe your hard drive
- How to remove fonts
- How to clean out Internet files
- How
to run and fixed Disk defragmenter
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File management
- How to get help with your technology troubles
- How to find a lost file with Windows XP's search feature
- How to determine what the three letter file extensions mean
- Dealing with downloaded files
- The meaning behind file extensions
- Changing associations is a pain
- Use Winfile.exe to change file associations
- ZIP utlities explained
- Windows supports backward compatibility
- Dealing with downloaded files
- All about BinHex,UUencode and ZIP
- How to find a file that's been downloaded
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BIOS/CMOS
- How to get into your BIOS
- How to get help with your technology troubles
- Flashing BIOS is simple
- Power management fix requires BIOS upgrade
- How to update your BIOS
- How to get rid of a virus in your boot record and MBR
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Buying Computers/Shopping Help
- Overwhelmed by software? Here's where to start
- Which laptop should I buy
- What technology gear you should consider for your office
- How to buy a family computer
- E-commerce import rules are taxing for Canadians
- A test for clone buyers
- How to buy a small business PC
- How to buy a laptop
- How to upgrade memory (RAM)
- How to choose a portable music player so it will play home-made CDs
- How to choose a microprocessor (aka the computer's brain)
- What's inside a computer
- A brief history of PC processors
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DOS
- How to get help with your technology troubles
- Plug-n-Play a pain for DOS game fan
- Old DOS disk works on Windows, but it's risky
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- How to get help with your technology troubles
- How to open photos that arrive by e-mail
- How to restore or read archived e-mails in Outlook 2000/2002
- How to send large e-mail attachments
- How to fix e-mailed links
- How to back-up your e-mail address books
- Confirming e-mail easy
- How to find an e-mail address
- E-mail virus warnings usually just hoaxes
- How to backup address books in OE 4 & Netscape 4.1
- How to create an e-mail auto-signature
- How to setup an autoresponder in Outlook Express
- How to setup e-mail filters
- How to avoid spam
- How to restore or read archived e-mails in Outlook 2000/2002/XP
- How to fix your return e-mail address
- How to use Lotus Notes R5 as your default e-mail program in your Web browser
- How spammers get your e-mail address and what to do to stop it
- How to send e-mail to 'undisclosed recipients'
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Errors and Crashes
- How to get help with your technology troubles
- How to delete spyware
- Temporary files clutter up the hard drive
- Desperately seeking fault - a GPF story
- Fix master boot record
- Shutdown solutions for Windows 98
- Fix PC interference on radio
- How to run and fixed Disk defragmenter
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Handhelds
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Hard drives
- How to tell if you have NTFS or FAT32 on your WinXP computer
- How to add a second hard drive
- How to get help with your technology troubles
- How to run and fixed Disk defragmenter
- Free up space on your hard drive
- How to stop your hard drive from grinding
- Reformat your hard drive
- Hard-drive shuffle tough to master
- Hard drive just keeps on clicking
- Bigger is always better when buying hard drives
- Indexing files can keep your hard drive busy
- Adding a slave drive
- Reformatting your hard drive by the numbers
- A radical approach to tinkering with a hard drive
- Temporary files clutter up the hard drive
- Go on, it's ok to swap drives
- Drive partition condition crucial
- Shutdown solutions for Windows 98
- How to defragment your hard drive
- How to permanently wipe data from a hard drive
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Installation
- How to get help with your technology troubles
- Stressed out by game card install
- Upgrading to Windows 98
- How to set up a dual boot PC easily
- How to install a driver
- How to reinstall Windows and reformat a hard drive
- How to remove fonts
- How to update Windows drivers
- What a boot disk is used for
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Internet /Web
- How to make a video call with MSN Messenger
- How to get help with your technology troubles
- What to do if your browser is hijacked
- How to clear sex sites from your browser
- How to delete spyware
- How to clear forms and passwords in Internet Explorer
- How to use FTP
- Advanced search techniques for the Web
- Phantom keeps signing on to Net
- Not simple to erase Navigator's trail
- Windows hides some cookies
- No reason not to savor cookies on the Internet
- Think of the Internet as a family reunion
- Cache cleanup keeps Netscape files current
- Two ways to fix a modem
- Which net connection should you buy
- Download file secrets
- How to backup your Outlook Express 5 address book
- How to find your IP address
- How to deal with a Web link that reports 'file not found'
- How to choose an Internet connection
- How to print your bookmarks
- How to help the disaster relief effort in NYC with your computer
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Memory/RAM/Cache
- How to get help with your technology troubles
- Everything you wanted to know about memory
- RAM chips don't mix
- All about RAM power
- System resources dangerously low
- L2 cache explained in simple terms
- RAM parity - what does it mean?
- How
to upgrade memory (RAM)
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Modem
- How to get help with your technology troubles
- Dial-up modem doesn't need a firewall
- How to optimize your high speed cable or DSL modem
- Phantom keeps signing on to Net
- Two ways to fix a modem
- Go wireless with a cell phone and modem
- Modem speed not limited by pace of your processor
- Making sense of 56K modems
- Windows shuts down fax upgrade
- Solutions for modem troubles
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Monitors and Video Technology
- How to get help with your technology troubles
- How to choose a monitor
- Long monitor cable hurts signal
- Faulty cable skews colour on monitor
- Bizarre freeze up often caused by video-card
- Video driver impairs Windows shutdown
- Power may be culprit in monitor
blowups
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Motherboards and processors
- How to get help with your technology troubles
- Pentium different than 586?
- Transferring tips on buses
- Upgraded 486 will never perform like a Pentium
- Similar systems act differently
- Pentium III will boost multimedia functionality
- A brief history of PC processors
- Motherboard search is like a blue plate special
- What's inside a computer
- How to choose a microprocessor (aka the computer's brain)
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Network
- How to get help with your technology troubles
- Help for network hookup
- Password problem fixed
- Find your IP address
- Connect two PCs miles apart
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Printers
- How to get help with your technology troubles
- Solving a pesky printer problem
- Reorder installation to solve scanner and printer problem
- How to print a folder's file list
- How to troubleshoot a printer
- What connects to a computer
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Scanners
- How to get help with your technology troubles
- A guide for the scanner rookie
- Reorder installation to solve scanner and printer problem
- What connects to a computer
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Software
- How to get help with your technology troubles
- How to fix audio in MSN Messenger 6.1
- How to delete spyware
- ICQ application lets you type in real time
- CleanSweep cleans Web debris
- Adobe Acrobat's universal file format
- Windows of the future
- Edit the registry for IE password reset
- Dump freebie Zip utility
- FastMove the best utility for data transfer
- Figure out which Windows version you have
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Sound cards, multimedia and files
- How to get help with your technology troubles
- A digital audio primer about MP3 and WMA files
- How to create an audio CD using MP3 files on your computer
- Getting rid of sound system error messages
- The ins and outs of MP3 music on the net
- Disable automatic startup of CDs
- How to select a sound card for your system
- How to restore the volume icon on your taskbar
- How to fix audio in MSN Messenger 6.1
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System clock
- How to get help with your technology troubles
- Slow clock may not be a dying battery
- How to fix Windows time
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Upgrading Windows
- How to get help with your technology troubles
- How to reinstall Windows and reformat a hard drive (FAQ & columns)
- How to dump WinXP and revert to an older version of Windows
- Upgrading to Windows 98
- Compaq often puts (Windows) install information on hard drive
- What a boot disk is used for
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- How to upgrade to USB 2.0
- How to add a USB port
- USB: a handy guide
- A guide to USB, PS/2, modem, network ports and more
- What connects to a computer
- How to get help with your technology troubles
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Viruses and Security
- Back Orifice 2000 trojan horse explained
- How to delete spyware
- Here's the answer to your CIH worries
- Yep, it's a virus
- The Melissa macro virus
- Anti-Virus trialware fails to detect computer bug
- Be wary of the Hare virus
- New worm ExploreZip is lethal
- Trojan Horse viruses
- ISPs under hacker attacks
- Think of the Internet as a family reunion
- E-mail virus warnings usually just hoaxes
- Win32.Kriz gives a nasty Xmas gift
- Virus protect your iMac
- I love you worm
- How to get rid of a virus in your boot record and MBR
- How to get help with your technology troubles
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Computer Mouse
- Right clicking and other mouse tricks
- What connects to a computer
- How to get help with your technology troubles
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