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Folder Shortcuts
Don Bradbury shows you how to access those deeply buried files fast

Repairing Windows XP - Part 3
Still can’t get that computer to start? Here, Dave Cook shows you how to get up and running with the help of two recovery options: Safe Mode and System Restore.

Edit a document in Print Preview
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Hoax Emails
Hoax or not? How do you tell? By Kai Chandler

Uninstall Applications Without Using Add/Remove
Don Bradbury takes you through the alternative route to removing programs

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Guide:Buying a CD Writer
Review: Ansmann Battery Chargers
Guide: The PPC Guide to Hard Disk Sizes
Top Tip: Troubleshooting Disk Defragmenter
Guide: Windows XP: Working with the Taskbar
Guide: Essential Software
Guide: Restoring Deleted Files 2/3
Guide: CD Printing
Guide: Windows XP Pro: Using File Encryption – part 1
Guide: Windows XP: Converting To NTFS
Guide: Repairing Windows XP – Part 1
Guide: Backing up your AOL Mail
Guide: Guide to Temporary Internet Files
Guide: Windows XP - Memory Lover!
Guide: Windows XP Pro: Using File Encryption – part 3
Guide: CD-R Media Lifespan
Guide: Restoring deleted files 1/3 
Guide: Making your PC start up faster
Win2k Recovery part 4
Windows 2000 Recovery - The Recovery Console
Guide: Restoring deleted files 3/3 
Zipping from the Command Line
Guide: Windows XP - working with Virtual Memory
Guide: Making Windows XP Talk
Practical Internet Connection Speed Test
Guide: Windows XP Pro: Using File Encryption – part 5
Guide: Windows XP Pro: Using File Encryption – part 4
Guide: Windows XP Pro: Using File Encryption – part 2
Practical PC Guide to Google
Guide: Repairing Windows XP – Part 4
Guide: Repairing Windows XP – Part 5
Guide: Repairing Windows XP - Part 2
Guide: Fix Your Folder View
Guide: Uninstall Applications Without Using Add/Remove
Guide: Hoax Emails
Guide: Working with Multiple Documents
Guide: Windows Error Messages
Folder Shortcuts
Guide: MSCONFIG's other uses
Guide:Advanced Web Searching
Guide: Backups rule OK!
Guide: Buying the Xmas PC
Opinion: Video CD - Better than DVD?
Opinion: Original or Compatible?
Opinion: Expensive Diallers - avoid like the plague
Opinion: Meta searching
Preventing Spam part 2
Opinion: Media - the future of the 'Net?
Spam Dropping? Don't believe it!
Guide: Checking the defences
Guide: What is .NET?
Windows XP: Working With User Accounts (2)
Windows XP: Working With User Accounts (1)
Guide: This Can’t be Windows?!? - How to apply Themes
Guide: More on XP's Start menu
Guide: Kai Chandler shows you how to customise the Start Menu in Microsoft's latest Operating System
Guide: More Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
Guide: Microsoft Powertoys for Windows XP
Guide: Windows XP: Working With Passwords (2)
WinXP: Working wit Passwords (1)
Guide: Windows XP: Working with the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard (2)
Guide: Windows XP: Working with the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard (1)
Guide:Windows XP: Killer Shortcut
Guide: Windows XP: Working with the Help and Support Centre
Guide: Windows - Working with Automatic Updates
Guide: How to record a music CD in Windows XP
Windows 2000 Secrets: Windows Explorer
Windows 2000 Secrets (2): Windows Explorer
Win 2000 Secrets (1): My Computer
Guide: When Windows Fails
Guide:USB View
Guide: USB Diagnostics
Guide: Top Ten Tips to speed up your PC
Guide: Top Ten Useful Windows Tricks
Sleep Or Hibernate
PC Paranoia part 3
PC Paranoia (2)
PC Paranoia (1)
Guide: Win XP - An Icon too far?
TOTW: I'm Nimda infected - what can I do
Guide: Microsoft Configuration Utility - Startup.
Automating repetetive tasks (2) - Windows macros the easy way
Computing Guide: Automating repetetive tasks (1) in Word
Guide: Hardware Info
Guide: Coping with High Resolutions and Large Monitors
GPF and the Blue Screen of Death
Guide: Using folders to make finding files easier
Guide: Find That Path
Find Lost Files Using Search Assistant
Guide: Keep your files safe - using Windows folders to save documents
DirectX Diagnostics
Guide: Cut, Copy and Paste
Metasearching the Web
Guide: Where can I get...  More Power!
Guide: What is DVD+RW?
Guide: What is USB?
What are all the parts of my computer
What is ISDN?
Guide: Flash Memory Cards
EIDE RAID - hard disks on steroids
Guide: DVD Burners - Where are We?
PPC Guide to Compression
What is Cable Broadband?
What is ADSL?
TOTW: Copy and Paste up to 12 Pieces of Information at Once
Going CD-RW
Guide: Battery Power - pt 5
Guide: Battery Power - part 4
Battery Power - pt 3
Guide: Battery Power (2)
Battery Power – Pt1
The Art of Backup
Guide: Making the Dance music Whoosh!
Sound Guide: EQ tips
PPC Guide to EQ types
A computer for music Part 1
Guide: Recording multiple MIDI channels simultaneously
So You’ve Downloaded Some MP3s…
Guide: MIDI Troubleshooting
MIDI Maestro Musicality
Guide: Latency, part 2
Guide: Latency part 1
Guide: Fixing Audio CD distortion
Guide: Dynamics 102
Guide: Dynamics 101
Decibels made easy
How to make quality recordings
Do you need a 24-bit card?
Guide: Making the most of your printer - keep your drivers updated and try using a few different media types
Photo Printing - the Full Story, part 2
Photo Printing - The Full Story
Looking after your printer
Guide: Buying a Printer
Chat Spool:Belkin Guest Chat 01-07-2002
Guide: Your IP Address and what it means
Set A Honey Pot Trap To Improve Your Security
Organise your favourites under AOL
Buying the Xmas PC (2)
Computing Guide: Squeeze those files.
Guide: Whisper password manager
Guide: Web Queries 4
Guide: Web Queries 3
Guide: Web Queries (2) - Be selective about the data you retrieve from the web
Guide: Web Queries 1 - You can keep the data in your spreadsheet up to date by getting it automatically from the Net - Ian Waugh uses Excel to show you how...
Never say Die - how to Upgrade
Guide: Are you sitting comfortably? - Part 3
Guide: Are you sitting comfortably? - Part 2
Guide: Are you sitting comfortably? - Part 1
...Silence That PC!
Good Scanning Starts Here part 3
Good Scanning Starts Here part 2
Good Scanning Starts Here part 1
Guide: Avoid being ripped off by Internet Scams
Remove Applications
Guide: How to use a scanner as a photocopier.
Sort out my passwords
Guide: Build your first PC - part 6
Guide: Build your first PC - part 5
Computing Guide: Build Your First PC – Part 4
Guide: Build Your First PC – Part 3
Guide: Build Your First PC – Part 2
Guide: Build Your First PC - Part 1
Guide: How to Recover From a Hard Disk Change
Guide: Getting Started with Excel (2)
Guide: How do I... get started with Micsoroft Excel
Downloading Files (2)
Buying a Custom Built PC
Cleaning you PC
Build your own PC pt 3
Build your own PC - pt2
Build your own PC - pt1
Guide: How To Backup Files Using Word
Computing Guide: Disaster Prevention - Backup strategies
Guide: Adding USB ports
Adding More Printers
Using Your Scanner Part 2
Using your Scanner - part 1
Guide: Sharpen up your Image
Guide: Printing images
Make the Most of your Monitor - Part 2
Guide: Make the Most of your Monitor - part 1
Guide: Scanning Pictures For Emailing
Guide: Automating graphics processing
Digicam Guide - Zooming In
Video Editing 101
Shooting and assembling successful movies
Digital Video - getting it in
Entry Level Digital Video Editing
Digital Photography - The ASA Factor
Successful Web Searching
Guide: Spyware
Guide: Top Tips to improve your download speeds and Internet connection
Sort Those Emails!
Guide: Browser Scripting Errors
Guide: Internet Explorer AutoComplete
Guide: Internet Connection Sharing part 3
Guide: Setting up ICS part 2
Guide: Internet Connection Sharing (1)
Guide:Compressing Picture Files for emailing
Guide: What your browser says about you
Guide: Should I go Broadband?
Web Software: Media Embedding in FrontPage wizard
 

 
 
 
Series Guides

  Good Scanning  
 Part 1
 Part 2
 Part 3

Build Your Own PC
 Part 1
 Part 2
 Part 3

Using your scanner
 Part 1
 Part 2

Photo Printing
 Part 1
 Part 2

Video Editing
 Intro
 Part 1
 Part 2

Starting with Excel
Part 1

Part2


 
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