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Create Your Own Emergency Boot Disk Create an emergency boot disk, identify mysterious components... |
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Transferring Mirrored RAID 1 Data Mirroring data from an old drive to a new drive. |
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Hardware Tips: Surviving a Disk Crash--a Checklist |
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Hardware Tips: Find the Perfect Hard Disk for Your PC Choose the best hard drive for your PC, speed up monitor resets... |
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September 2003
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Boot Passwords Put Your PC Under Lock and Key Secure your machine's boot-up to prevent snoops and thieves from accessing your data. |
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Accessing RAID 1 Hard Drives Differentiating between hard drives and verifying data is backed up correctly. |
PC Magazine
January 1, 2008
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October 11, 2006 |
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Popular Mechanics
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How to Make Your Computer Boot Faster A variety of tricks of varying sophistication can reclaim valuable minutes or seconds of a computer's get-up-and-go time. |
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January 1, 2008
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Dirty CD Follow-Up Better ways to test and fix memory. |
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Make a Bootable USB Key What do you do when your computer won't boot, your most recent backup is three months old, and you don't have an emergency CD? |
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Upgrade to Windows Me Upgrade to Windows Me, step-by-step... |
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April 24, 2001
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Install a Bigger, Faster Hard Drive One of the most popular upgrade projects, step by step... |
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July 11, 2007
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How to Enlarge a Windows Partition Discover the tools needed for disk partitioning. |
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Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 If you want simple partitioning--and promise not to get yourself into trouble with the suite's other abilities--Disk Director will suffice. |
PC World
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Fix Broken Windows Fast Space-hungry restore utility saves your system when Windows crashes. |
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April 4, 2008
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How to Downgrade from Vista to XP Trade Vista for XP's more familiar bugs? Plenty of users say they'd do it in a heartbeat. Here's how to navigate the downgrade. |
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October 24, 2007
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May 2002
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Protect Your Data and Settings on a Shared PC Share a PC without worrying about lost data or changed settings... |
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What happens when you throw the switch? Have you ever wondered how a computer knows what to do when you turn it on? Switching on the power causes it to boot, but what exactly does that mean? What sequence of functions does the operating system perform to get started? |
PC World
December 2004
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Resuscitate a Stalled PC Try these steps to revive a nonresponsive or crashed PC... Leapin' Letters... Numbers to Go... |
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May 2003
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Hardware Tips: Divide a Disk to Conquer Slow Performance Partition your hard drive to best utilize the space; learn more about your PC through a free utility. |
PC Magazine
November 29, 2006
Bill Machrone |
Give System Woes the Boot A new class of rootkit, using the virtualization capabilities of new Intel and AMD processors, is impervious to anything but a clean boot from an uninfected disc. |
PC Magazine
December 14, 2004
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Manage Multiple Operating Systems No matter what your goals, there are ways you can effectively host multiple operating systems on a single system. Here are some of the things you can do to make managing more than one OS on a single system easier. |
U.S. CPSC
July 14, 2004 |
Georgia Boot Recall of Steel Toe Boots The boots may have been mislabeled to indicate that they are resistant to electrical current, which is incorrect. This may result in a serious shock or electrocution to consumers. |
PC World
March 2003
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A Boot Full of Windows Wonders What will you do with all the time these downloads save you? |
Popular Mechanics
November 2008
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The 3 Biggest Vista Headaches, and How to Fix Them Questions are answered on Service Pack 1 update, incompatible programs, memory issues, and nagging software installation reminders. |
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Rewind 1.2 Our first look at Power On Software's Rewind -- a utility designed to restore your Mac's hard drive to a previous saved state -- left us unimpressed by the program's performance... |
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November 3, 2007
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Diagnose and Repair an Unbootable XP or Vista PC What to do when your Windows XP or Windows Vista system refuses to boot. |
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Intel to Open BIOS Code Project CollabNet is to help bring next-generation firmware technology under common licensing rules. |
Macworld
December 2004
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Diskology Disk Jockey Hard-drive cloner is a mac consultant's best friend. The Disk Jockey is a compact unit, featuring power and IDE connections for attaching two drives. It also has two FireWire 400 ports and one USB 2.0 port, to connect to your Mac. |
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June 2005
Kirk Steers |
Plan Ahead to Keep Your Big Hard Drive Purring Prepare your computer for a new massive hard drive... Gizmo Power to Go... |
Linux Journal
January 1, 2007
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Tech Tips with Gnull and Voyd Modify initrd to Make 3ware RAID the First Serial Device... Use Knoppix to recover after installing a bad kernel... Finding Disk Space and inode Hogs... |
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May 24, 2007
Christopher Null |
How to Survive the Worst PC Disasters Can't get your PC to boot? Or just sent your boss a really embarrassing e-mail? Here's how to recover from these and ten other potential catastrophes. |
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March 16, 2000
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PC Troubleshooting FAQ Your machine's misbehaving? Try these solutions for some common PC woes. |
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June 2005
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October 16, 2007
Loyd Case |
A Bad Power Button? Trouble starting a PC after it's been correctly shut down. |
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November 2003
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What to Do When XP or 2000 Won't Boot Try several tactics to get a reluctant Windows to load; plus, keep XP's Start menu under control. |
PC Magazine
March 17, 2008 |
Windows Power Saving Follow these settings to save energy with the computers you already own. |
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September 2004
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PC Safety Toolbox--Five Steps to Protecting Your System The ins and outs of backing up, defragging, defending against intruders, and creating an emergency boot disk. |
PC World
September 14, 2001
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Windows 2000 FAQ We solve 20 of the most vexing problems with Windows 2000... |
PC Magazine
October 10, 2007
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Oh . . . Blue Screen of Death Change your settings so you can actually read what the blue screen says before your computer reboots itself. |
U.S. CPSC
February 18, 2005 |
Target Corp. Recall of Women's Boots The heel on the boot can detach from the sole while in use, causing the consumer to fall. |
