The purpose of this page is to list Internet sites which benefit PC users in the general area of technical support / problem solving, for example places where you can get drivers, useful files, documents, programs, or tips/advice. It is not for sites unrelated to PCs, or for sites which only contain advertising and publicity material.
Thanks to all who suggested entries, with a special mention to the main contributors Edward Quan, Roy King and Jason Pillinger.
Not all the sites listed have yet been checked for merit.
Please email suggested additions and reports of deceased/relocated/dud sites to Ian Sharpe
This page is copyright and for personal use only. You may not distribute it or use it as part of your own Web site.
3Com.........................................http://www.3com.com
3D Realms....................................http://www.3drealms.com
7th Level....................................http://www.7thlevel.com/
Acer - UK....................................http://www.aceruk.co.uk/
Adaptec......................................http://www.adaptec.com
Adaptec - UK source..........................http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/vendor/adaptec/pub/BBS/adaptec/
Adaptec FTP site - USA.......................ftp://ftp.adaptec.com
Adobe........................................http://www.adobe.com
Agfa.........................................http://www.agfa.com
Akhter - UK..................................http://www.akhter.co.uk/
AMD..........................................http://www.amd.com
AMI..........................................http://www.megatrends.com
Apple (Quicktime)............................http://quicktime.apple.com
AST..........................................http://www.ast.com
Asymetrix....................................http://www.asymetrix.com/
ATI..........................................http://www.atitech.ca
Award........................................http://www.award.com
Aztech.......................................http://www.aztech.com
Battery Replacement..........................http://www.mdsbattery.co.uk
Borland......................................http://www.borland.com
Broderbund...................................http://www.broder.com
Brother......................................http://www.brother.com
Brother printers.............................http://www.brother.com/eu-printer/index.html
Canon - Europe...............................http://www.europe.canon.com/
Canon - UK...................................http://www.canon.co.uk/
Canon - USA..................................http://www.canon.com/
Carrera......................................http://www.carrera.co.uk
Cirrus Logic.................................http://www.cirrus.com
Citizen......................................http://www.citizen-printer.co.uk/users/jg19
Claris.......................................http://www.claris.com/
Colorado.....................................http://hpcc998.external.hp.com
Compaq.......................................http://www.compaq.com
Compaq (UK)..................................http://www.compaq.co.uk
Conner.......................................http://www.conner.com
Corel........................................http://www.corelnet.com
Creative Labs................................http://www.creaf.com
Creative Labs - UK...........................http://www.creative-labs.co.uk
Creative Labs FTP Site - USA.................ftp://ftp.creaf.com
CTX..........................................http://www.ctxintl.com
Cybermedia...................................http://www.cybermedia.com
Cyrix........................................http://www.cyrix.com
Dan - UK.....................................http://www.dan.co.uk/
Dataquest....................................http://www.dataquest.com
Dell.........................................http://www.dell.com
Dell - USA...................................http://www.us.dell.com
Delrina......................................http://www.delrina.com
Diamond......................................http://www.diamondmm.com
Diamond -- Fixes and Opinion.................http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~trenton
Diamond FTP Site - UK........................http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/vendor/diamondmm/
Diamond FTP Site - USA.......................ftp://ftp.diamondmm.com
Digital Equipment Corporation................http://www.digital.com
Digital Workshop.............................http://www.digitalworkshop.com/
Digital Workshop - UK........................http://www.digitalworkshop.co.uk/
DOS Batch Language: A personal view..........http://www.maem.umr.edu/~batch/
Dr Solomon...................................http://www.drsolomon.com
Electronic Arts..............................http://www.ea.com
Ensoniq......................................http://www.ensoniq.com
Epson........................................http://www.epson.com
Excel: John Lacher...........................http://www.lacher.com
Excel: John Walkenbach.......................http://www.j-walk.com
Excel: Stephen Bullen's Excel Page...........http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Stephen_Bullen/
Excel: The Unofficial Excel page.............http://www.io.org/~negandhi/php.cgi/xl_main.htm
Ez-Drive.....................................http://www.microhouse.com
ForeFront (WebWhacker etc)...................http://www.ffg.com/
Frank Condron's Windows page.................http://www.conitech.com
Fujitsu......................................http://www.fujitsu.com
Fujitsu - Europe.............................http://www.fujitsu-europe.com/
Fujitsu (Japan)..............................http://www.fujitsu.co.jp/index-e.html
Gateway - UK.................................http://www.uk.gw2k.com
Gateway - USA................................http://www.gateway2000.com
Genoa Systems................................http://www.genoasys.com
Gravis.......................................http://www.gravis.com
Hayes - UK...................................http://www.hayes.co.uk/
Hayes - USA..................................http://www.hayes.com/
HENSA Archives...............................http://www.hensa.ac.uk
Hercules.....................................http://www.hercules.com
Hewlett Packard..............................http://hpcc998.external.hp.com
Hewlett-Packard..............................http://www.hp.com
Hi-Grade.....................................http://www.higrade.com
Hilgraeve (HyperTerminal Authors)............http://www.hilgraeve.com/
Hitachi......................................http://www.hitachi.com/
Hitachi - Europe.............................http://www.hitachi-eu.com/
IBM Europe...................................http://www.europe.ibm.com
IBM USA......................................http://www.pc.ibm.com
ICL..........................................http://www.icl.com
ID Software..................................http://www.idsoftware.com
Iiyama.......................................http://www.iiyama.com
Imation (LS-120 drives)......................http://www.imation.com
Imperial College.............................http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk
IMSI.........................................http://www.imsisoft.com
Intel........................................http://www.intel.com
Intel FTP site - USA.........................ftp://ftp.intel.com
Intel FTP source - Europe....................ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/hw/vendors/intel
Internet goodies.............................http://www.ensta.fr/internet
Interplay Productions........................http://www.interplay.com
Intuit.......................................http://www.intuit.com
Iomega.......................................http://www.iomega.com
Kodak........................................http://www.kodak.com
Kyocera - USA................................http://www.kyocera.com/
Kyocera (UK).................................http://www.kyocera.co.uk
Labtec.......................................http://www.labtec.com/
Lexmark......................................http://www.lexmark.com/
Linux........................................http://www.linux.org
Linux Slackware - UK.........................http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/Linux/slackware-3.1/INSTALL.TXT
Linux: Lasermoon.............................http://www.lasermoon.co.uk
Linux: Lasermoon FTP site....................ftp://ftp.lasermoon.co.uk
Logica.......................................http://www.logica.com
Logitech.....................................http://www.logitech.com
Lotus........................................http://www.lotus.com
Matrox.......................................http://www.matrox.com
Matrox FTP site..............................ftp://ftp.matrox.com
Maxtor.......................................http://www.maxtor.com
McAfee.......................................http://www.mcafee.com
Media Vision.................................http://www.mediavis.com/mainmenu.htm
Media Vision FTP site........................ftp://ftp.mediavis.com
Mesh - UK....................................http://www.meshplc.co.uk/
Micro House..................................http://www.microhouse.com/
Microid Research (MR BIOS)...................http://www.mrbios.com
Microsoft (USA)..............................http://www.microsoft.com
Microsoft USA................................ftp://ftp.microsoft.com
Mindscape....................................http://www.mindscapeuk.com/
Mirage.......................................http://www.mirage-mmc.com/
Miro Computer Products.......................http://www.miro.com
Mitsumi......................................http://www.mitsumi.com
Monitor manufacturer list....................http://www.cviog.uga.edu/monitors/manufacturers.html
Mustek.......................................http://www.mustek.com
NEC..........................................http://www.nec.com
Netscape.....................................http://www.netscape.com
Netscape FTP site - USA......................ftp://ftp.netscape.com
Netscape Mirror - UK.........................http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/netscape/pub/
Nildram......................................http://www.nildram.co.uk
Novell.......................................http://www.novell.com
Novell - UK..................................http://www.novell.co.uk
Number Nine..................................http://www.nine.com
Number Nine FTP site.........................ftp://ftp.nine.com
Oki..........................................http://www.okidata.com
Olivetti.....................................http://www.olivetti.com
OnTrack......................................http://www.ontrack.com
Orchid Technology............................http://www.orchid.com
Pace.........................................http://www.pacecom.co.uk/
Packard-Bell.................................http://www.packardbell.com
Panasonic....................................http://www.panasonic.com
Panasonic - UK...............................http://www.panasonic.co.uk/
Philips......................................http://www.philips.com
Phoenix......................................http://www.phoenix.com/
Pioneer - Japan..............................http://www.pioneer.co.jp/
PK Ware......................................http://www.pkware.com/
Plasmon (USA)................................http://www.plasmon.com
Plextor......................................http://www.plextor.com
PowerQuest (PartitionMagic)..................http://www.powerquest.com/
Pretty Good Privacy..........................http://www.pgp.com/
Primax.......................................http://www.primaxelec.com
Promise......................................http://www.promise.com
Promise - FTP site...........................ftp://ftp.promise.com
Psion........................................http://www.psion.com
Psion Dacom..................................http://www.psiondacom.com/
Quantum......................................http://www.quantum.com
Quarterdeck..................................http://www.quarterdeck.com
Realtek......................................http://realtek.com.tw/index.html
RSA..........................................http://www.rsa.com/
S3...........................................http://www.s3.com
Sage - UK....................................http://www.sagesoft.co.uk/
Samsung......................................http://www.samsung.com
Seagate......................................http://www.seagate.com
Serif........................................http://www.serif.com
Shareware....................................http://www.refdesk.com/free.html
Shareware: Jumbo.com.........................http://www.jumbo.com
Shareware: Zamboni's Shareware Links.........http://www.iglou.com/zamboni/share.html
Sierra.......................................http://www.sierra.com
Silicon Graphics.............................http://www.sgi.com
Simply.......................................http://www.simply.co.uk/
Smile........................................http://www.smilekfc.com
Software Publishing Corporation..............http://www.spco.com/
Sony.........................................http://www.sel.sony.com
Sony - Europe................................http://www.sony-europe.com/
Sophos.......................................http://www.sophos.com
Spea.........................................http://www.spea.com/lang/eng/drivers_s.htm
Spectrum HoloByte / MicroProse...............http://www.microprose.com
Springsoft...................................http://www.springsoft.com
Stac.........................................http://www.stac.com
Starfish Software............................http://www.starfishsoftware.com/
STB..........................................http://www.stb.com
Sun Microsystems.............................http://www.sun.com
Symantec.....................................http://www.symantec.com
Syquest......................................http://www.syquest.com
Tally........................................http://www.tally.com
Tandem Computers.............................http://www.tandem.com
Taxan........................................http://www.taxan.co.uk
Teac.........................................http://www.teac.com
Tekram.......................................http://www.tekram.com
Texas Instruments............................http://www.ti.com
Toshiba......................................http://www.toshiba.com/tais/csd/products/
Trident......................................http://www.trid.com/trident/drivers/drivers.htm
Twinhead.....................................http://www.twinhead.com/
U.S. Robotics - UK...........................http://www.usr.co.uk/
U.S.Robotics.................................http://www.usr.com
UMAX.........................................http://www.umax.com
VideoLogic...................................http://www.videologic.com
ViewSonic....................................http://www.viewsonic.com
Viglen.......................................http://www.viglen.co.uk
Virgin Interactive Entertainment.............http://www.vie.com
Virtual Software Library.....................http://www.shareware.com
Western Digital..............................http://www.wdc.com
Windows 95 Drivers...........................http://www.cobb.com/w95/software/drivers.htm
Windows 95 Registry F.A.Q....................http://theclassifieds.com/kdware/faqs/index.html
Windows 95:The Windows 95 QAID...............http://www.whidbey.net/~mdixon/win40001.htm
Windows: The O'Reilly Windows Center.........http://www.ora.com/win/
Windows: The Windows FAQ.....................http://scwww.ucs.indiana.edu/FAQ/Windows/#A6
Windows95 Annoyances.........................http://www.creativelement.com/win95ann/index.html
Windows95: The One-Stop Windows 95 Site......http://www.win95.com/win95pages.html
Word: The Unofficial WinWord Home Page.......http://www.nd.edu/~crunge/word.html
Xara.........................................http://www.xara.com/
Xerox........................................http://www.xerox.com/
Year 2000 BIOS fix...........................http://www.rightime.com/year2000/year2000.txt
Zoom.........................................http://www.zoomtel.com