Lincoln Spector - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Lincoln Spector

Article | 5/02/2010 USB interferes with boot

Richard Purdy's PC won't boot when he has a flash drive plugged into it.

Article | 4/02/2010 Set up your HDTV for watching the Winter Olympics

You're all geared up for the 2010 Winter Olympics. You have your pizza, your beer, and your brand-new, beautiful HDTV. But is that HDTV giving your fa...

Article | 22/01/2010 The data with the music

When you pop an audio CD into your PC's drive, your media player software (iTunes, Windows Media Player, or whatever) downloads this information from ...

Article | 21/01/2010 Toshiba BDX2000 Blu-ray player

At first glance, the slim Toshiba BDX2000--the company's first Blu-ray Disc player--seems unexceptional, with limited extras and a boxy remote. But wh...

Article | 19/01/2010 Windows 7's built-in backup

Robert wants to know if Windows 7's built-in backup program is worth using.

Article | 12/01/2010 How to migrate to a new PC

Windows 7 comes with a pretty good migration tool--certainly better than the XP or Vista versions--but it's not perfect. I won't give you step-by-step...

Article | 1/01/2010 Restore data after motherboard death

Peter's motherboard died. How can he retrieve the data on his hard drive?

Article | 30/12/2009 Add WiFi to a very old laptop

Raul Maristany wants to add WiFi to an aging laptop. Is it possible? If the laptop has a PC card slot, it should be able to take a wireless PC card.

Article | 30/12/2009 How to optimize your HDTV

You've bought the HDTV. You've set it up, plugged everything into it. Maybe you've even calibrated it for the best possible picture. But you're not do...

Article | 22/12/2009 Remove Windows 7 from a dual boot

Following my advice in Dual-Boot with Windows 7, Dale Bevan set up a dual boot with Windows 7. He now wants to remove the new OS and stick with the ol...

Article | 14/12/2009 How to diagnose a bad Wi-Fi connection

Network problems are the thorniest to resolve. They've been known to reduce my vocabulary to curses so strong they'd embarrass Quentin Tarantino.

Article | 9/12/2009 Optimise Your HDTV

You've bought the HDTV. You've set it up, plugged everything into it. Maybe you've even calibrated it for the best possible picture.

Article | 8/12/2009 The computer maintenance flash drive

In "Applications on a Flash Drive," I mentioned that I keep a flash drive with portable diagnostic tools I use for fixing friends' and relatives' PCs....

Article | 7/12/2009 Steampunk tech mods: A 19th-century take on 21st-century PCs and gadgets

We may have awesome technology, but our great-grandparents had awesome-looking technology. And therein lies much of the appeal of the Steampunk moveme...

Article | 26/11/2009 Securely wipe a dead hard drive

Hard drives almost always contain some potentially compromising information, such as credit card and social security numbers. You should always wipe a...