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Article | 5/02/2011 Prepare your PC for future data disasters
Reformatting and restoring a PC is not fun--in the way spending 2 hours in the dentist's chair is not fun. You have to back up all your data (and pray...
Article | 27/01/2011 Switching to desktop Linux? 6 ways to ease the migration
With all the many compelling reasons for a company to switch to Linux on the desktop, it's no wonder that businesses large and small are increasingly ...
Article | 21/09/2010 Windows 7: 10 Cool Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts are wonderful time-savers but many of us are either too accustomed to the mouse or too lazy to get beyond Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.
Article | 12/07/2010 How to keep Windows XP SP2 safer after Microsoft stops patching
Maybe you didn't get the memo: Tomorrow marks the end of patches for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2).
Article | 22/04/2010 My screen is sideways
The Windows screen on Viksvet's laptop flipped sideways. The Answer Line forum offered help.
Article | 2/03/2010 Move data to a safer, separate partition in Windows 7
Cedric Crawley wants to keep Windows 7 and his applications in one partition, and his data in another.
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 | 7/01/2010 How (and why) to partition your hard drive
Disk partitioning--separating one physical hard drive into multiple independent volumes--can relieve all sorts of computer-related headaches, and than...
Article | 31/10/2009 How to: Reletter a drive
Windows turned drive F: into drive G:, so the PC's owner asked the <a href="http://forums.pcworld.com/index.php?/forum/2024-answer-line/">Answer Line ...
Article | 1/07/2009 Customize your Windows Desktop
Widescreen monitors are great for watching movies and organizing windows side-by-side, but a lot of time the space goes to waste. This week I've got a...
Article | 17/04/2009 Automatically restore open folders after a reboot
Windows doesn't have a very good memory. I mean, when I reboot my system, it doesn't even remember the folders I had open!
Article | 11/04/2009 Turning off disk defragmenter may solve a sluggish PC
For the last couple months I've been troubleshooting a vexing problem on my new quad-core HP desktop: Roughly once per week, the machine would start r...
Article | 14/04/2009 Turning off disk defragmenter may solve a sluggish PC (Part 2)
When we last left our intrepid blogger (way back on Friday), he'd pointed the finger at Vista's Disk Defragmenter and cried, "J'accuse!"

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