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 favorite sport everything it's capable of giving?
Stories by Lincoln Spector
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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 an online database.
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Windows 7's built-in backup
Robert wants to know if Windows 7's built-in backup program is worth using.
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Restore data after motherboard death
Peter's motherboard died. How can he retrieve the data on his hard drive?
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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.
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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. Andy Ludlum asked what programs I keep on that flash drive.
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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 movement.
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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 hard drive before turning it over to someone else. But that job is particularly difficult if the hard drive no longer works.
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How To: Move Your Old Email to Win7
Marsha Naylor wants a way to access her old Outlook Express and Windows Mail messages in Windows 7.
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When the backup drive gets full
Rat74136's external hard drive is full. He asked the Answer Line forum how to keep backing up.
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How to dual-boot with Windows 7
Installing Windows 7 while keeping an older version of the operating system is a great idea if you have enough spare hard drive space. It allows you to move to the new OS without burning your bridges.
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Why is my computer slowing down?
A41202813 asked the Answer Line forum why his once quick PC is slowing down
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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 forum</a> how to change it back.
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TV on the Internet
After reading <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/168878/ditch_cable_and_satellite_for_free_internet_tv.html">Ditch Cable and Satellite for Free Internet TV</a>, Warren Kernaghan asked where on the Internet he can find television programs comparable to what's on cable.
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How to Upgrade From XP to Windows 7
You had good reason to stick with XP and skip the Vista experience entirely. But now that the folks at Microsoft have created a new operating system that's worth moving to, they haven't made the upgrade easy, because you have to perform a clean install of the OS. Here are the issues you need to be aware of, and how to handle them. Then read the main article, "<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/171432/how_to_upgrade_to_windows_7.html">How to Upgrade to Windows 7</a>" for more information on the process.
