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Pesky Printer Warning February 2001
Surviving a Disk Crash--a Checklist February 2001
Spot the Used-PC Lemon January 2001
(OVER)SET YOUR CPU CLOCK January 2001
Hey, Modem! Shaddup Already! December 2000
Behind the Numbers December 2000
Windows' System Monitor Peeks Under a PC's Hood December 2000
Improve Drive Performance November 2000
Fossilised Files? November 2000
Cluster's Last Stand November 2000
Cleaning House November 2000
Squeeze More Data Onto Your Hard Disk November 2000
Protect Your System Settings October 2000
3D Dilemma October 2000
Hub Heaven October 2000
Having trouble getting a USB device to work? Here are a few tips: October 2000
USB Basics: Daisy-chain gang October 2000
Ride the Bus: Faster, Easier Connections With USB October 2000
Avoid False Starts September 2000
Any Port in a Storm September 2000
Plug and Chug September 2000
It's in the Cards September 2000
Increase Your Workspace With Multiple Monitors September 2000
Is Your PC a Hottie? August 2000
My Friend Flicker? August 2000
Heads Up August 2000
Troubleshoot your Inkjet Printer Quickly August 2000
Lock up woes July 2000
Watt's Up? July 2000
Image Is Everything July 2000
Troubleshoot Your Laser Printer Quickly July 2000
Faster than a speeding finger June 2000
Build a better BIOS June 2000
Get with the program June 2000
Play it safe June 2000
How to overcome your BIOS fear June 2000
Shed a little more light May 2000
My sound bites May 2000
Image is everything May 2000
Send in the clones May 2000
Kirk SteersA backup a day keeps the headaches away May 2000
Test your printer driver April 2000
Keep drive letters in order April 2000
What to clean and how April 2000
Keep your PC clean to keep it running April 2000
The nuts and bolts of PC power supplies March 2000
Play the field February 2000
Faster Drivers Are Better February 2000
Take Care of Your PC or Watch It Die February 2000
Communicator 128-bit Update January 2000
Windows 9x Telnet Client Patch January 2000
Eudora 4.2.1 January 2000
IE 5.01? Any Day Now January 2000
Heavy Sleeper January 2000
Transfer Big Files with Little Hassle January 2000
Avoid IRQ-some installation problems December 1999
Check notebook power November 1999
What's my line? November 1999
Catch an energy star November 1999
PCI vs AGP November 1999
Configure your system for faster boot-up November 1999
Find fast answers October 1999
A panel decision October 1999
Optimise your multimedia to avoid video hassles October 1999
What if my computer isn't Y2K compliant? September 1999
RAM upgrade tips to remember August 1999
Repair your CD-ROMs July 1999
Windows' illogical letters July 1999
Soup up your swap file July 1999
Y2K or not Y2K? July 1999
For the love of UART July 1999
Make the most of your PCs memory July 1999
Get on the bus June 1999
Increase printer capability June 1999
The ten commandments of installing upgrade cards June 1999
Keep your monitor awake May 1999
PC card removal etiquette May 1999
Protect your CMOS May 1999
Create an emergency "super" disk May 1999
Migration migraines and how to avoid them April 1999
Modems: Internal or external? March 1999
Sound from a CD March 1999
Why wonÆt my CD-R record audio? March 1999
Reset your forgotten system password March 1999
Is Jaz usable as a second hard disk? March 1999
Too good to be true? March 1999
Create a bootable CD-ROM March 1999
A faster UART February 1999
Automatic turnoff February 1999
Connect a Win 95 PC to a Win 3.1 laptop February 1999
Better living through a healthy Registry February 1999
Is it a Cyrix or a 486? January 1999
Reduce cable clutter January 1999
Low-level formats January 1999
Quick fix for touchy typists January 1999
Use two 3D cards simultaneously January 1999
Replacing floppies ù what's right for you? January 1999
Off to a zippy start December 1998
Upgrading to USB December 1998
Easy driver updates December 1998
Winformation at your fingertips December 1998
Ease PC maintenance with new Win 98 tools December 1998
Get connected with a network November 1998
BIOS passwords that don't work November 1998
How fast is my RAM? November 1998
An NT Server running out of steam November 1998
More on broken modem connections November 1998
Intel vs the K6-2 November 1998
Notebook screens explained November 1998
Put it all on a tape backup drive October 1998
Write your own CDs October 1998
Clean up scratched CDs October 1998
Grab that screen - again October 1998
Unwanted birthday greetings October 1998
Video RAM: correction October 1998
Add a removable-cartridge drive September 1998
Hard drive niggles September 1998
Broken modem connections September 1998
Working with two soundcards September 1998
DVD capacities September 1998
Fix intolerable problems by reformatting your drive August 1998
When your screen's a shade off August 1998
Tame your network adapter August 1998
Grab that screen August 1998
More tips on installing additional parallel ports August 1998
It's not brain surgery, but it can help your PC July 1998
Upgrading to 33.3K July 1998
The IBM/Cyrix relationship July 1998
Cyrix processors and Pentium Ratings July 1998
Soup up Web surfing with a 56Kbps modem June 1998
Frazzled on defragging June 1998
Repartitioning your drive saves space and trouble June 1998
Using a notebook overseas June 1998
Displaying processor speed June 1998
File associations June 1998
Fixes for the Year 2000 June 1998
Install a new sound card May 1998
Moving monster files without nets or zip drives May 1998
Teach old mice new tricks May 1998
Fix monitor distortion May 1998
Add a parallel port May 1998
Dealing with noisy phone lines May 1998
Installing a speaker driver May 1998
Software MMX? May 1998
CPU voltages: correction May 1998
Ultra ATA isn't always ultra fast May 1998
The silent CD player Apr 1998
Should you rock the clock? Apr 1998
Speed up your 486 with HyperRace Mar 1998
Intel or not? Mar 1998
Do I need MMX? Mar 1998
Brassed off again Mar 1998
Calm your hyperactive A-drive Mar 1998
End PC power struggles Mar 1998
SPP, EPP or ECP? Feb 1998
Keep that PC clean Feb 1998
How fast is my modem, really? Feb 1998
The sound of silence Jan 1998
Brassed off Jan 1998
Daisy-chaining SCSI devices Jan 1998
A few of our favourite books Jan 1998
Blame it on the CD-ROM, or on the drive? Jan 1998
Turn off Scandisk Jan 1998
Boost CPU speed (and cure all known diseases...) Nov 1997
Red-hot printer Nov 1997
Troubleshooting graphics cards Nov 1997
Saving floppy disk images Nov 1997
Cache-strapped Nov 1997
Troubleshoot laser printers Nov 1997
Phantom drives Oct 1997
Hard drive performance issues Oct 1997
Unleash your laser printer Oct 1997
Bus speeds and multipliers Sep 1997
CD-ROM: real-mode vs protected-mode Sep 1997
Taming a recalcitrant printer Sep 1997
Pick the right speakers Sep 1997
Monitor problems? Blame Bill! Aug 1997
New hard disks and DriveSpace Aug 1997
Modem drivers Aug 1997
Modem performance monitoring Aug 1997
Pinned down Aug 1997
Which fdisk? Aug 1997
Hardware problems that break Windows Aug 1997
Swap in a new motherboard Aug 1997
Add the right memory Aug 1997
Recovering lost data from a hard disk Aug 1997
Hard drive interfaces explained Jul 1997
Olivetti hot keys to access CMOS setup Jul 1997
Cyrix identity crisis? Jul 1997
Surviving your crash test Jul 1997
Add a card for SCSI peripherals Jul 1997
On the trail of the missing megs Jun 1997
A cure for colour blind monitors Jun 1997
CMOS settings that can't be set May 1997
File transfers without parallel May 1997
Add a new sound board May 1997
Track system performance with System Monitor May 1997
Improve your view May 1997
Which RAM? Apr 1997
Sharing com ports Apr 1997
The truth about CD-R Apr 1997
Put BIOS in its place Apr 1997
Saving floppies from the jaws of death Mar 1997
Matching refresh rates Mar 1997
Growing pains Mar 1997
The A to Z of hard drives Mar 1997
Plugging memory leaks Mar 1997
Jump-start enhanced CDs Mar 1997
Do audio CDs wear out the drive? Mar 1997
Speed up dial-up modems Mar 1997
Enhancing your memory Mar 1997
Add a new graphics card Mar 1997
Monitor conflicts with graphics card Feb 1997
Windows - not Feb 1997
UltraSCSI is ultrasensible Feb 1997
Open your serial box Feb 1997
Run Win95 on a new drive Feb 1997
Installing a replacement EIDE hard disk drive Feb 1997
What's VRAM and MPEG? Dec 1996
Sensible sessions save CD space Dec 1996
Upgrade modem chip Dec 1996
Overcoming lack of drive Nov 1996
Booze and boat anchors Nov 1996
Fixing what IRQs you Nov 1996
Should I dump Disk Manager? Nov 1996
Drive to succeed Nov 1996
Installing an internal CD-ROM drive Nov 1996
Bad hard drive sectors Nov 1996
More bad hard drive sectors Nov 1996
Uphill upgrade Oct 1996
Good resolutions Oct 1996
How you play the game Oct 1996
What's the difference between extended and expanded Oct 1996
Switching modems from voice to data Oct 1996
To boost modem signal, upgrade modem chip Oct 1996
Large hard disk drives differ under DOS and Win95 Oct 1996
Installing IDE CD-ROM drives under Linux Oct 1996
More installing IDE CD-ROM drives under Linux Oct 1996
Stopping monitor flicker Oct 1996
Bubble jet smoothing Sep 1996
Why pay more for SCSI? Sep 1996
What's WRAM? Sep 1996
How fast is the Cyrix 6x86? Sep 1996
Noisy CD-ROM drive and what does data weigh? Sep 1996
Sound Blaster MIDI setup Sep 1996
Dual drive emulation on Seagate only Sep 1996
What to do with old PCs Sep 1996

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