The right mouse button provides shortcuts to many menu items in Windows; some features are only accessible this way. If you're looking to reduce your mouse activity - essential for sufferers of...
Your Start menu is probably cluttered with shortcuts to programs you never use or may have even removed from your computer. Simplify your life and remove them.
These instructions are for installing a floppy drive in a home-built computer with a standard 3.5-inch drive bay.
These instructions are for installing a single Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) hard drive in a home-built computer with a standard drive bay.
These general instructions are intended to supplement or simplify some of the information in your motherboard manual.
The BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) is a chip on the motherboard that boots the computer and allows Windows to communicate with the hardware. Although the risk of doing so is considerable, you...
Look for a case that will fit all the components (drives, cards and so on) you will install now and might install in the future. Make sure it comes with a power supply that's adequate for your...
The power supply governs the stability, cooling, energy efficiency, and expandability of your computer, and will affect the reliability of your components. If you buy a case with a power supply...
Playing computer games, working with photographs and other images, and streaming video is faster and smoother with a higher-end video card. Need an upgrade? Optimize your machine's performance...
A generic 32-bit Sound Blaster-compatible sound card will let you use a microphone and listen to audio on your computer. Higher-end cards provide significantly better sound quality, and some allow...
Increasing RAM can be the single easiest way to improve the performance of your PC. These instructions apply to adding RAM to your existing PC or buying RAM for a home-built computer.
Although there are faster removable-media drives with considerably greater storage capacities, every computer still needs a floppy drive. Floppy disks are still the most universal media; when you...
In the last few years, average hard drive sizes have increased about 400 percent, while the price range from small to big has remained steady. For a home-built PC, you can either save money now...
Computer buffs are very opinionated about which motherboards are best. Do some research to make an informed buying decision.
By the middle of 1999, you generally could not save any money by building a computer instead of buying one with approximately the same parts. However, you may enjoy the learning experience, and...
If your hard disk seems to be having problems, you might want to run diagnostic or repair software on it. However, you typically can't run such software on the startup disk (the disk with the...
Your computer's calculator will perform all the simple or complex tasks that you can do with a desktop calculator. Add, subtract, multiply, divide, calculate formulas and even perform scientific...
You can configure your computer to launch a program automatically each time it starts up. This is particularly helpful for programs that you want to run in the background, such as your virus scanner.
By compressing, you "zip" the file so that it is smaller and requires less disk space. Zipping a file is especially helpful if you are planning to send the file as an e-mail attachment or transfer...
You can use WinZip to decompress a file that has been saved in an archive. You may have created the archive yourself, or you may have received the archived file from another person or as an...
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